Hello my dear. I apologize for the delay,  I'm buzzing about different  places lately.

Dream +  Max
  Your nightmare might have brought an astral traveler along.  To slice that gem in half, unless it previously had been damaged in a slight defect? It had not been around intense temperatures? Only asking to think of this in 3d as well as the unseen realms, or unseen others.

*I'll  pull on Max's energy afterwards*

  I pulled out my decks of Kipper and Leonormand  *Under the roses*, as well
RWs.  I started by pulling your energy.
The Kipper gave me a 33 card for you. Giving me a sense and indication that,  yes, Spirit was aligned. I've seen your numerology post. As well a couple Tarots (on your energies) Here came Queen of Swords and Knight of Wands. As you had him too, He is a repeat visitor.
I threw your dice and interesting connection in the cards 7 ~ 8 ~ 16   (=31)  or 4
  (anscestry  or roots, perchance a blood enemy)

  ~ I'll start with what energies I pulled for your situation surrounding your dream.

- Strength -  Leo  8th Major Arcana
     Courage , Power, Focus.
During your dreamtime you're in a focus, possibly Lucid dreaming or not to be tmi, if you had a cycle during this time - the Moon would be more powerfully connected with you.
You faced something in your dreamstate that was attempting to menace you.  I see you thrashing in your sleep,  as though this chain was trying to restrict your air. Only it wasn't happening to you by your fighting the unseen one, it may have been an astral traveler or a disembodied one. Meant as a scare, I feel.
You were strong against this attempt but your tiger's eye ~ sadly wasn't. Did you know this Max during the past Lionsgate? 8/2020. This was a time when the veil began to thin. You've cat energy here. Fire. Lion. Tiger's Eye. +Strength card.
 ~ Maybe you can add that. Leo also begins in the 2nd half of July too, right?

- 7  of Wands -   Mars  in Leo
 Courage, determination,
 defensive, maintaining control.
 Along with Strength, this was you.
You went in with a passion to retrieve,  learn and explore but faced a suprise once there. In an attempt to leave, were caught in a battle.

- 7 of Swords -  (Moon in Aquarius)
  strategy, trickery and deception.  However this is not always bad energy as with anything, the whole story needs inspected. Someone (an Air sign) may have been strategically plotting an exit. (reading it with dream standpoint) A repeat in the Courage.  Within your dream you had a strong motivation to bring back your (total) recall. Forgive the movie ref. This exit was likely yours - from the dreamspace. You manuevered yourself to awaken with all you could from your learned portions. You may have revealed something you knew you needed to quickly  come back with. or you may forget it. Did you encounter a bearded man?

  - Essentially these cards are your dice reflected!  Your Moon is in 8th you said?  Your Moon is bringing forth secrets  during dreamtime. (Scorpio) However some one/being is against your learning these secrets.  Resistance.  7 of Swords will reflect this and my intial draw on your energy, could there be an Air sign (feminine maybe, the swords maybe cats claws) who would have a calculated move to wield his/her sword as a warning strike or been the one you battled to get back to wake state?

Kipper -Main Female - (2)
   she holds a red rose. Has her white roses in a vase. (innocence) Yet her window drapes are wide open. As though someone could be seeing her here.  I feel this is you being seen from the veil and once you fall asleep,  you are together with those or the one piercing through the veil .. while you are awake  there's white roses,  once asleep you have fire to your single rose, the red rose.

   8 of ❤  - The MOON  -
was your  Leonormand  card.
like 8 of Cups but she (Moon) holds secrets, we know. You traveled to discover them, maybe unknowingly.  Your subconscious msy have lead you. This was an emotional  quest.
traditional cards would say you turned your back. I feel this is you going towards 8 of cups in the dreamworld.

(spoiler)
He may have given you a red riose in hopes of exchanging it for the beautiful white ones. (your innocence ~ or secrets you had discovered - involving him, your connection before these lifetimes).

.. .. 🗝 .. ..

Max's energy

4 ~ 9 ~ 18  (9×2)
  (=31)
He may be your TF or SM. You share the 31!
~ Maybe you're both innately aware of it, if so.

 We pulled 2 RWs on him

- 10 of Wands - 
   Fire signs Aries. Sagittarius  and Leo (feline too)
 A very  tired energy. He's feeling an abundance of stress. At his limits with burning out on energy.  A goal is creating a heavy burden upon him. Something or someone pretty important to him.

-  7 of Cups -  Scorpio or Neptune   8th house
  Confusion,  hopes, dreams, fantasy, illusion
  This card often is depicted as the Magician working to manifest, yet not as skilled at getting his desired results. When I started with your energy, the bottom of the Deck - The Magician made an appearance.  This card (7) is connected to 2 of yours.

I feel he's  been thinking of you during sleep time and, or possibly working to manifest you. This other person, your struggled with one, may be your anscestral one, trying to stop you as this Max and you are from a past lifetime and you may not be ready to learn details - or they have no intention to allow you to discover the past linkage between you both. Max may have some knowledge  ~ however I feel you have more. He just feels a need to understand why he's drawn to you. Another though, someone beyone the grave has left their imprint upon one of you. Like a curse, you're fighting the unliving to learn your connection ~ yet beyond fhe flesh spoken for.

Both his cards are blue bgs, this indicates to me he must be asleep during these times and meeting with or Just observing you.

(his)
The Kipper card
- below these were included in your msg:
C > 3 M > 13 > 31
-  Courtship -  (4) 4th house  (anscestry)
letters C , M are here and an angel statue.
He gas a beard, she's in a pinkish long dress.
I feel he's deeply asleep and this energy is how he sees you in his dream. You are wearing this dress (Venus color), his love interest. His thighs appear clenched, to me suggesting arousal. . Your anscestry watcher (the angel) watches to be certain this does not go past a line they have cleverly affixed for you both - a brick wall between you both represents the waking zone . Idk .. either one of you made enemies of the others family in the roots or He's forgotten he's been dangerous to you in your past. Your cat Spirit ?totem?  Is protective of you. His intent may be most understood by them, he's (7 of cups) unfocused on his true intentions, therefore could abuse this rendezvous. That is another possibility.

Wands cards earlier may imply he's attempting to go from the 3d, as an incubus, to seduce you.
This is only a possibility. 

 (His)
Leonormand card
 - The Tree -  7 of Cups   (emotions/Other)
 Upon a small patch of green grass, alone, like an island upon glassy,  reflective water.
 Legacy. Time. Sacrifices. Recovery. Relative.  Spirit.

~ As well you may have once been married, a myriad off relationship possibilities are on the table. Legacy could speak to of feuding families, where one steals wealth an prestige from the other.

  so many 7s .. could you have had something begin in July? Does July feel connected at all?
As well 7s are about truth seeking missions. Perhaps you both are them but you're more clear with intent, he is lost in fantasy.
 

* I might learn more, pls refresh in case I add.
I very much hope this helped.
Pls let me know your thoughts, feelings on it.

 Keep a white light around you until you can get a new talisman.  Can you  get one online perhaps?