Just a few additional thoughts about these upsetting dreams:
For example, their being reoccurring ones shows that they are dealing with very important issues which it’s important to resolve in some reasonable way.
If they’ve stopped now after you’ve been thinking over the earlier replies, then you may be on track to keeping them from returning because certain relevant attitudes etc. in your life are now more up front.
In order to help bolster things if they have stopped, or if perhaps they might start again, it may help you to know that because the first dream contained a ruined town with mysterious symbols on some of the walls, and also contained a talking “animal”, these factors indicate that the dream came from a very deep, instinctive layer of your psyche in order to provide help in dealing with some mostly unconscious issue or issues.
As mentioned in earlier replies, the image of animals in dreams is meant to help us to get in touch with the body, the instincts and emotions.
The dream shows the wolves as emerging from a derelict, ruined place and chasing you.
This would tend to show metaphorically that a certain area of your life and experience has been mostly ignored and allowed to “fall into ruins” for some reason.
Also metaphorically, the wolves symbolize your instinctive side which is “angry” with you because of this neglect, and which could therefore tend to “chase” you.
In a practical way, this could appear in various changing emotional and physical symptoms over time such as tending to be anxious for no apparent reason, or being prone to sudden inexplicable outbursts of anger or other emotions, or feeling doubtful overall about your “direction” and self-worth, or in getting ill too often etc. etc.
The dream could also be hinting at a greater danger in that the bi-pedal wolf-like creature takes you further into your unconscious (into the woods) and apparently “violates” you forcibly.
The danger could be that you’d be “forced” in a “perverse way” (since you are heterosexual) into accepting your instinctive side and this could result in various personal disasters.
It’s great that you’ve provided a series of dreams because I think the next two dreams try to show the issue from different angles as a series of dreams usually does if the dreamer hasn’t understood enough about a given problem as yet.
Perhaps there’s an “upping the ante” with each new dream as it were (i.e. have sex with the sister of a good friend, then have sex incestuously with your cousin) in order to help you understand how crucial the issue is that needs to be dealt with.
Maybe the shift from a “homosexual” image to heterosexual situations is trying to get across what could potentially happen if the instincts inside you aren’t faced, accepted and made more “civilized”.
That is, “perverse”, powerful and inappropriate sexual impulses could emerge at very unexpected times from your unconscious (i.e. from the “back yard”, the “basement”), potentially causing all kinds of negative outcomes, perhaps to the point of understandably having you shy away from emotions and intimate relationships even further which could result in a circle of increasing difficulties in this area of your life.
From what you’ve said about your bonding with animals, it looks like you may generally view them as “safer” than people and perhaps hesitate, as we all often do, to enter the sometimes roiling emotions which can surround intimate personal relationships.
If so, you might like to read “Meeting the Shadow”, edited by Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams. It covers the concept of the earthy, emotional side of human nature that we may not be very comfortable with sometimes, and covers how to deal with it in detail. It's easy to read, being composed of many short articles by various authors inside and outside the psychological community.
Anyway, I hope that these additional thoughts about your dreams can be helpful in some way.
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