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      an owl in the bathtub, a flying horse, and a giant VHS creature

      This is my first post. Here's my dream: I am taking a bath and a brown spotted owl flies in the open window and lands in the tub. I think maybe it wants a drink of water and will then leave, but instead it comes over and latches onto my arm with its beak. It doesn't really hurt, but it doesn't let go. I am not scared, but I do want the be rid of the owl. I get out of the bathtub and go out on the deck (yes, still nude but not concerned about it), and the owl lets go and flies away. As I am turning to go back into the house, I see a larger dark flying animal with a bird's body and the head of a horse fly by. I am unsure as to whether the owl has transformed into this other animal, or it is a different one. At this point I also realize that I must be dreaming. I go in the house, and out of the front window I see another flying creature. This one is huge (the length of my house), black, and has a body that is shaped like a VHS tape, the head of a horse, and a long flowing horse-like tale. I find this creature slightly disturbing, and now I am certain I am dreaming, and I wake up.

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      Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some general background information about you (as well as a description of events just before the dream), it’s safe to say that the owl symbolizes a “messenger” from your own unconscious mind.

      In this case, it looks like the “message” could be somehow related to the need for an important change in your attitude for example.

      This idea is shown by you being in the bath which has symbolic connections with the idea of “baptism” where a new and stronger outlook in an area of your personality could be needed.

      The dream could also be showing that you’ll feel the same thing we all do, namely, some concern and hesitation in listening to certain “messages” which could call for a giving up of various old opinions, habits and fixed ways of moving through life etc. (e.g. you want to be rid of the owl).

      The owl accomplishes its apparent mission of getting you outside in order to look at certain issues in your psyche, i.e. the very unusual animals in the sky (the owl then lets go and flies away).

      It looks like taking in what’s going on will need a “return to basics” as shown by you standing nude on the deck and being unconcerned while you view the animals above you.

      The presence of animals in dreams (which includes fish, birds, insects and worms etc. in addition to mammals and reptiles) usually points to the issue of the dreamer’s overall attitude towards her or his instinctive reactions, emotions, vague feelings, intuitions, fantasies and similar inborn natural traits.

      The animal with the body of a bird and the head of a horse is probably meant to symbolize that something is currently (or could be in the future) generally askew with some aspect of your dealing with the instincts.

      A “hybrid animal” like this one describes a mixing of the symbolic attributes of the animals involved and in this instance, the earthy grounded horse is not in its true element but in the air.

      Looking at this sight causes you to believe that you must be dreaming, perhaps implying the idea that “dreams aren’t real” so you don’t have to pay any attention to what you’re seeing and you retreat into the house (i.e. into your usual overall conscious awareness).

      The dream might then be saying that if you don’t reflect somehow upon perhaps some recent and unusual spontaneous thoughts, physical symptoms, gut feelings, or intuitions and fantasies etc., some kind of underlying situation could possibly become worse over time as shown by the appearance of the huge and bizarre horse/VHS-tape animal.

      Unfortunately the latter’s huge size and black color maybe suggests the potential for a kind of overwhelming and amorphous “attack” by the instincts in the future if some appropriate action isn’t taken to a reasonable degree.

      Any such situation could result if your instinctive side is tending to be ignored too much because it’s as if this part of you then becomes “angry” from “not being cared for” enough of the time.

      A clue could lie in the image of the VHS tape which might possibly symbolize a kind of fixed, “replayed” and “continuous loop” group of opinions and beliefs etc.

      The presence of any such situation may interfere with a healthier and natural connection with change and growth as brought about by a continuous interaction with your own instinctive side with its ability to provide hints about what to do in specific, actual situations instead of perhaps relying too much on formulaic responses etc.

      In order to get an important message across, a dream will often emphasize and exaggerate a frightening image (e.g. the horse/VHS-tape animal) to force the dreamer to sit up and take notice and to take any appropriate action.

      So it’s important to not take such dreams as being “prophetic” and about a fixed outcome.

      Instead, a dream like yours can most often be termed “prospective” in that it’s saying something like “IF you continue doing (such and such), then (such and such) could happen”.

      Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything about you, this way of looking at your upsetting dream might not fit your personal circumstances very well, but I hope these ideas can be helpful in some way.

      Please feel free to ask any questions or to make any comments about this particular way of looking at your important dream.

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