The Path of the Llama-Lizard

I have been keeping a log of my dreams for the past year. I will have a lot to share if I receive a big enough response. This dream is my favorite. This is every detail I remember.

--The Path of the Llama-Lizard - 6/26/12:

I was walking down a pathway, with houses and buildings on my left and right. Everything was tan or sand colored.

I came upon a llama (or it me) with black (sometimes red) wool, and the face of a kind of dragon or lizard (also sometimes it morphed into a normal llama face).

I walked up to it, carefully and apprehensively, and pet the thing. It seemed to tolerate my presence but regard me with either some sort of fear/mistrust/apprehension, and reared it's head when I tried to pet it.

I am not sure really whether I was following it or it was following me, or if our paths crossed because we had a similar destination; but I followed the llama the rest of the way down the serpentine declining pathway. Once we got to the bottom, I heard someone whistle. I instinctively knew they were trying to bekon the llama. I looked and before me was a stairway leading down to a clearing or little area which seemed either to morph between a hotel lobby and a cobblestone couryard. At the base of the stair was an asian man.

--There was blurriness here I don't remember what happened Maybe another dream in between sequences--

I found myself back on the road. Either my memory of the surroundings has faded since, or I was simply surrounded by sand-colored fog. The llama at this point has morphed into more of an alpaca sized creature, with a normal llama head, and it's wool is now a lighter hue, maybe almost a washed out pink color, but still mostly sand colored, it stood out from the darker sand floor.

I reached out and pulled a piece of the llama off. When it came off it was not wool or hair, but a softer mana-like substance. I put it in my mouth. Chewing on a piece of llama now... (to give you an idea what it tasted like, imagine those candy circus peanuts and just as chewy, without any sugar in it...) it was yellow... I tried to wave the llama back upward on the path-way, for I had other business to attend to (like waking up and going to work, even though this was not a lucid dream I think that's what I was feeling, because it was 4:15am).

But again the asian man whistled and waved the llama toward him. I regarded the man with mistrust. He didn't seem to have the llama's best interests at heart.

I turned around to face the llama once more, and it was gone. And so this was the part of the dream where the llama ceased to be part of it.

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Did my unconscious will the llama to disappear because I mistrusted the asian llama-owner? This dream smoothly warped and morphed into the next dream in my log, and one of the characters from this dream remained; namely the asian man.

to be continued I guess?

121 people is a lot of views for having no comments... any ideas on interpretation guys?

My thinking is that I do not know you well enough to figure out the meaning. To me knowing something about the dreamer is essential to figuring out an explanation to the dream. Who are you? What's going on in your life? What's on your mind?

If this were my dream, I would say that the fact that it's part llama part lizard would suggest that maybe things are not what they appear in this dream. But then again I tend to have a lot of metaphorical dreams, do things rep represent other stuff in my dreams.

I find it kind of ironic that you mistrust the Asian man because you feel he maybe does not have the llama's best interest in mind, and yet you are the one who just ate a part of the creature. That's a bit hypocritical, don't you think? Maybe you should mistrust yourself for not having the llamas best interest in mind. Maybe you are mistaking having your own self interest for having the other's interest in mind? The Asian man may be calling the creature to protect it from you. Can you be trusted? Do you have doubt about that in your mind?

Did you watch any fantasy movie or read a fantasy book? This llama lizard makes me think of fantasy creatures where combining elements of different animals is more normal than in fact.

Does it matter that the Asian man is Asian? Even if you are not consciously prejudiced against Asians, our dreaming minds often think in terms of stereotypes. Write down your associations to "Asian" - what you think when you think Asian, and then use the resulting words to see whether they help you interpret this dream.

I think ultimately you are your best dream interpreter because you know best what your thoughts are like.

It's certainly an interesting dream you got there.

EDIT: new insights: Your title of "The Path of ..." Made me think of the spiritual path to enlightenment. That together with the Asian man made me think of the Dalai Lama. lama, llama, lizard, and lamb all start with L. Eating the body of the llama could be like eating the body of the lamb in Christianity, a Communion of sort, and that is also confirmed by it being a mana like substance - mana the bread from heaven as a precursor to communion. Btw, I think the dragon head might fit better with the Asian theme than the lizard, since dragons are important symbols in parts of Asian culture. maybe this dream is a spiritual dream fusing elements from Christianity and Asian spirituality, hence the llama with the dragon head as a fused animal.