Dream involving rabid wolf

**n00mi** · 12-22-2011 11:11 AM

In a way, I've had this dream twice, though some details are different. In the first one, I was on a sidewalk out front of my parents' suburban house (in the dream) and in the second I was in my front yard in the country.

In both, I hear a rabid wolf in the darkness ahead of me and off to the right. He sounds ferocious but I'm neither surprised to hear him nor particularly afraid. I knew he was there, I know he is after me, I know the dogs will take the attack. I don't know that I feel particularly safe. More apathetic. Or resigned might be more the word for it.

As he attacks, my dogs all immediately jump between me and him and take the attack. It is fierce and loud and violent. His eyes are focused on me, but he tears into the dogs. I take a step back, but other than that, I'm passive. I don't really feel anything at all. I have felt more involved in shows I watch on television. It's just happening.

Then I get sprayed by the saliva from the rabid animal and wake up.

In the first one, I was sprayed just because of the ferocity of the battle. In the second, it was because I didn't think the puppy should be in the fight and I reached into the fight to try to pull him out. (The puppy was a new addition between the two dreams as well. The first I had two nights before we got him and the second I had the night after we got him.) Again, there's not a lot of emotion. I just sort of think, "You probably don't belong there," and pull him out. I'm not really afraid of the battle or for him, but I know a puppy doesn't belong there, either.

Sort of at a loss for what this means, if anything?

**n00mi** · 12-22-2011 11:50 AM

I can see where some of the common symbols here might apply (dogs = loyalty, rabid animal = anger) or even that I may have just been dreaming about the fact that my dogs were going in for their rabies shots and I've been a little worried about one because rabies reports are up and he spends a bit of time outside though he wasn't vaccinated yet.

But the apparent disinterest sticks with me. This was a nightmare, but then again it wasn't because there was no fear. The lack of emotion seems the dominant thing which is sort of weird.

**Darkmatters** · 12-22-2011 07:10 PM

I think you nailed it - yeah it sounds like it's just a reflection of your fears about the puppy getting rabies. I suspect the lack of emotion is nothing to worry about. Possibly it's because you're getting them vaccinated and so you know you're doing all you can to protect them, or maybe the dream is showing a little fear that you should be doing more, like maybe keeping them inside more or only in a fenced yard or something. But I'd say since there was no overwhelming fear in the dream it says that you know you've done what needs to be done by vaccinating them.