Thread: Dreaming about my dog

My thoughts (feel free to discard any that don't sound right):

Some of the dream may be wishful thinking: wishing that your dog would stay by you even if not on a leash. Some of it may be a common pet owner's fear: the searching for the dog when he is lost, that he may not be as friendly as you want and that you may not always understand why that is. That would be the simple, more literal interpretation.

Let's try to take the interpretation a step deeper: a useful dream interpretation technique is to interpret dream characters as representing yourself, and your dog is if course a dream character. So what can you learn by interpreting this dream dog as yourself. Being off the leash may represent greater independence and greater responsibility, again this could be wishful thinking, but this time not wishful thinking for your dog but for yourself. Getting lost and searching for may be symbolic for your feeling lost and searching for for example the best future for yourself, or what kind of person you want to be (searching for yourself). Showing yourself teeth to indicate that you could be more dangerous than you appear may be a show of confidence, which may or may not be an accurate reflection of reality. You may be showing off to yourself because you are worried that you are not actually as impressive as you wish to be in some way. Perhaps you want to appear more <insert desirable quality> than you fear you are.

Interpretation based on looking at the dog as your dependent and what this tells you about yourself: if dog can stay with you despite being off leash, this can mean that you are good at teaching or wish you were. If your dog shows you his teeth, this could be a reflection that maybe you don't fully trust yourself or think that you are not always to be trusted (?). Searching for your dog when lost, may be about you being responsible.

Note: I do not know you well, and thus I have no clue whether any of those actually apply to you or not. I am not trying to say anything about you based on any observations of you, but I am just brainstorming based on dream contents and ideas of what it could possibly mean - so please do not think that I am criticizing you in any way with any negative parts or praising you with any of the positive ones. Also, even if the exact ideas do not apply to you, maybe you can use similar technique to think of other ideas of what this could say. Keep in mind that it is usually safer to assume that the dream most likely tells you things about yourself than about others, including your waking life dog. I hope some of this helps.

That actually makes a lot of sense! I had never considered seeing my dog as a DC and, by extension, as myself. The first paragraph of the deeper interpretation fits me perfectly. I'm 23 and I'd love to get out of my parents' house. However, I'm still studying and I have no idea what to do with my life (as in, a job... I study Hebrew in college, I'm not sure there's ANYTHING I can do with that). That goes really well with being lost and wanting independence.

The part about the teeth and wanting to be something that I'm not also makes a lot of sense when you consider that I identify as male, but I'm still biologically female in every way.

This was definitely a very great interpretation, thank you!!!