never used to dream...

[onlydaves]

okay, so I really never remembered my dreams.. well, not since I was just a little kid anyway. I'm now 44 yrs old, male, and going through my second divorce, this one after nearly 16 yrs together. This last year has been pretty horrible, but things are looking up. I'll tell more about this after sharing the dream. I'm very interested in any interpretations.. oh yeah, I should say that I started exploring Wicca about a year and a half ago. I don't practice any spellcraft, but I do burn candles and incense that are made by Wiccan Priestesses. I only use items that create postive energy for my house. I do practice energy work as well.. grounding and shielding. So.. the other night I dreamed that I was walking in the moonlight, down a dirt path that was pretty overgrown with grass, but the grass was short. So you could tell there was a path, but it just wasn't used much. The path was next to a lake, and I could see a small boat on the lake, and three men were fishing. I could hear them talking, and they were talking about a wild boar that had killed several people. I just kept walking, and listening to the sounds of the night, and I heard something behind me. I turned around, and I saw something coming, but I couldn't quite tell what it was... as it got closer, I saw that it was a pretty big wild boar, and he was running right at me. He had beady little eyes, and tusks. I wasn't scared, I was just watching him.. and as he got closer, I just held up a finger and told him "don't even THINK about it"... and he just kind of swerved around me, turned a big circle and ran off, away from the lake. He had approached down the path I was walking on, but ran away off the path, and away from the lake. That's when I noticed the pack of dogs, and this boar appeared to be the leader of the pack. There were several dogs, but I really only noticed that one of the dogs looked very much like MY dog, who's a Great Pyrenees, but I knew right away that it wasn't Casper. The pack ran off with the boar. I remember thinking that that seemed kind of strange, dogs are hanging out with a boar.. but I turned around and continued walking, like really nothing strange had just happened. Somehow, I knew that they were hunting, though. I heard one of the men in the boat say "well, that's something".. and another replied "I've never seen that before".. and I just chuckled to myself and kept walking. Well, the path continued on but gradually started to go away from the lake, so at the beginning of the dream I was maybe 10 yards away from the waters edge but now I was maybe 50 yards away, still walking on the path and I noticed that the lake was just a little behind me as I came over a low rise. As I came over the rise, I noticed another pack of dogs running up the rise towards me, and this time my dog was with them. They weren't running on the path, but through the very large clearing.. I remember lots of trees, but this was through the clearing, and the grass was pretty plush, and maybe 6 inches long... really a nice place to walk, I thought. I knew it was Casper right away, and I just stopped walking and watched him, admiring how great he looks when he's running like that. I expected the dogs to stop and greet me, but they just blew right past me.. I remember that I was kind of curious about that, and I turned to watch them run. That's when I noticed the original pack coming over the rise behind me. The boar wasn't with them now. I watched, more curious than anything, as Casper ran right at one dog, obviously intending to attack him. That's strange in itself, because Casper isn't aggressive at all.. in fact he's a therapy dog, and we participate in childrens reading programs at the libraries. Anyway, that dog just wanted nothing to do with Casper and just turned tail and got out of there in a hurry. Casper didn't slow down one bit, and immediately turned his attention on the other Pyrenees... Casper ran right at him and I could tell that he bit that other dog on the back of the neck, and then Casper kind of threw himself on the ground, rolled onto his back, and continued biting that dog from underneath. It seemed like he was biting the other dogs front legs. The other dog was yelping, really loud, but I never saw him bite Casper. It looked like he was just standing there, yelping. I ran over as fast as I could, and got control of Casper. I was looking at both dogs, and I was aware of all the other dogs just standing there watching, and I saw that both dogs had blood on them. I didn't know if Casper was bleeding, but he didn't act like it. He was very calm, his usual self, when I got them separated. It was like I just touched both dogs, and they stopped, except that the other dog continued yelping. I was worried about Casper being hurt though, and that's what woke me up. Anyway, like I said, I never used to dream... but lately I've had some very vivid dreams. Also, as I said before, I had a pretty tough year last year. I'm going through a divorce, and my ex moved in with an ex of hers about 18 months ago. The guys a cocaine dealer, and addict, and she left him and moved back in with me a total of 6 times last year.. the last time she left me again at the end of April. Then she filed false charges on me.. cost me nearly $15,000 to defend myself, and the DA dropped the charges at the beginning of November. I got a call Dec 30th from my attorneys, saying that the court had dismissed our divorce because she hadn't complied with the court orders, and she's the one who filed. Now my attorneys are petitioning the court to reopen the divorce and allow me, and my attorneys, to be in charge. Also, I got laid off at the end of April as well. Kind of a tough year... in the midst of it all, I had stopped practicing my Wiccan energy work, but I started up again recently and I burn candles or incense almost daily now, too. I just think that maybe this energy work, and the positive energies from the candles and incense have opened up some kind of door to my dreams or something. I'd like to know what anyone thinks about this dream.. I've had a couple others this week I'd like to share as well. I should say that I've been kind of "on my heels" for quite some time, just reacting to the drama as it came. That's not really like me, but it's what I've been doing. That call from my attorneys changed that, dramatically. I now can be proactive, instead of reactive. I really feel more like myself than I have in a very long time. Also, I work with dogs quite a bit.. helping in a no kill shelter, as well as with animal assissted therapy work.. and I dogsit for friends, and help with training their dogs. I've tried to give as much info as I can, so maybe someone can give an interpretation, lol! Please let me know if I've gone too far, okay?

[bornagain]

Hi, this certainly is a very long dream indeed. I picked up on a few things. The wild boar seems to be representative of past transgressions and sorrows and when you're telling the wild boar to back down you sub conscious is saying "I don't want to even think about you." Your dog Casper remind me of your ex wife because he is running off with an unexpected group of dogs and contrary to his usual mannerisms, is acting strange. Similarities lie in the fact that her partiality is blinding her from her true being and causing her to run astray with the wrong people and groups.

[Nhuc]

Hi, this certainly is a very long dream indeed. I picked up on a few things. The wild boar seems to be representative of past transgressions and sorrows and when you're telling the wild boar to back down you sub conscious is saying "I don't want to even think about you." From the way he explained it, the boar wasn't going to gore him. [QUOTE=bornagain;1805734}Your dog Casper remind me of your ex wife because he is running off with an unexpected group of dogs and contrary to his usual mannerisms, is acting strange. Similarities lie in the fact that her partiality is blinding her from her true being and causing her to run astray with the wrong people and groups.[/QUOTE] Assuming it has anything to do with his wife, sounds more like a biased comment. If anything the dog is him wounded ( assuming it does have something to do with his divorce) Irregardless, ignore the guy above, 1. Forget wicca, it's just watered down versions of the old paths. 2. spellcraft? lol? 3. grounding and sheilding, well if we look to the first part of the lemegeton, solomon describes all his rituals costing a fortune or being nearly impossible to obtain or illegal to do, and it requires you do everything on a certain time of a certain day, to a certain moon rotation, to a certain planetary alignment, with a certain fragrence, and usually a different animal, blood of black cat for instance, and you can only practice once, on the succeding day or night specifically for a certain amount of time, And your circle has to be a certain way, with an inverse drawn exactly the opposite with certain phrases, and emotions. And that's his beginner course. Don't waste your time dude. But uhh I digress, perhaps it is symbolizing your past, perhaps its a crazy odd dream, my best advice is to ask the dream character you see next time you dream, about it, to explain it to you, you might grab lucidity just by breaking the 4th wall... 3rd wall... ehh yea. Also, if you have a lucid dream you need reaffirming about I can help you, but normal uncontrollable dreams (however detailed) are what is seemingly impossible for outsiders to decode, and all the extra info just makes people draw conclusions, often dreams are about what we are going through, but sometimes our mind just likes to screw with us. For example I had a lucid dream not too long ago. And I asked one of the people who i found odd what he resembled, he told me he was me if I had grown up and lived out my dream as a male porn star. I said "REALLY?" and he replied that in fact no, he was just screwing with me.