This is a very common type of dream - though I don't know exactly what it means. I used to have dreams of being in the house and seeing wild animals (sometimes dinosaurs) outside moving toward the house threateningly, and then I'd suddenly realize my dog was outside and I needed to rescue him. Inthe dreams I'd tell my mom about the situation and she didn't care, or I'd ask her where the dog was and she'd unconcernedly say she had let it out earlier, and she'd just go onwith whatever she was doing as if it didn't concern her at all. In fact in some of them she was busy chopping food on a cutting board and she started getting all crazy and violent about it. (shut up about Freud! )
But I never befriended the wild animals. That's pretty remarkable I think!
It became clear to me after quite a few of these dreams that the ouser represented security - I had lived a pretty sheltered life, and the wild animals outside (which sometimes started breaking through the doors, or sometimes were threatening my dog) represented some aspect of life that felt threatening to me. Sometimes I was able to rescue my dog (barely), sometimes I got her but we couldn't get back to the house and had to run off into the woods ina nightmare scenario. But it sounds like you've been able to integrate with whatever frightening forces are represented by the wolf. Trust me, that is an amazing thing!! Whatever the wolf represents, it means it isn't really as threatening as you thought it was and that when the time comes you're confident you'll be able to face it and not only survive but nurture the situation and turn it into a positive.
The wolf could represent generalized fears about the life ahead for you. It could represent the fear of moving out or just of your life changing when you become a mother - something maye you don't feel prepared for. Good old Jung, who corrected much of what was wrong with Frued's theories, tells us that when a life-changing event comes along like pregnancy (or even just moving out on your own, or marriage, or what-have-you), we will have archetypal dreams. He also says that, even though your pre-change self feels unprepared, the event itself triggers changes that are sort of programmed into the genes - the very fact of crossing that threshold brings out the new you that was waiting inside unsuspected. Some people are too neurotic to make that corssing gracefully, but it sounds like you aren't.
When you woke from the dream, how did you feel?
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Ok, it sounds like other people in the dream being uttelry unconcerned or unable to grasp the importance is common, maybe universal. Now it sounds like that means it's a dream of something you must face alone - that nobody can help you with. Probably something internal, coming from the unconscious, that they aren't even capable of seeing. Wish I would have known that t the time!! I thought my dreams were telling me that my mom just didn't give a damn or that she was part of the problem (though in my case I'd say that's quite accurate).
The fact that the wolf's teeth were dull and his bites didn't hurt is very important I think - it means whatever you're afraid of won't really be able to hurt you - that you can handle it. Take comfort from the fact that your dream ended much better than mine always did. Though I was never killed, nor was my dog - just chased or threatened.
Has anybody else experienced this kind of dream? It would be amazing if we could all compare notes.
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