Thread: 3 Weird Dreams in Last Few Days

Although in order to provide a more accurate interpretation it would usually be best to have some additional general background information about you (and a description of events that were going on just before the dreams), it’s safe to say that the first and third dreams are especially important because they contain images that aren’t everyday ones (e.g. a seal who talks, a baby seal being born out of the seal’s head, the bear who’s a “devil”, the idea of a trident from Greek mythology).

This type of dream image comes from the deep layers of the psyche in order to get across an extra important message to the dreamer.

It might sound unusual, but with images such as the seal, the bear, the devil and the trident, it’s helpful to look at what people have thought about them over the centuries because looking carefully at these ideas, beliefs, rituals and art etc. can help our understanding when they appear in the dreams of modern people.

The first dream starts with you and your friend the seal camping and this suggests a kind of low-key and pleasant contact with nature.

Animals in dreams symbolize the dreamer’s connection with and overall attitude toward natural instinctive reactions, strong emotions, vague feelings, intuitions and even cold thoughts and actions that are sometimes needed to defend ourselves in certain situations just like a quiet mother bear will suddenly turn very vicious if her cubs are in danger.

So the talking seal might partly be connected with the idea of being “trained”, playful and friendly etc., perhaps a natural side that you’re already in touch with most of the time.

This part of you wants to “speak” to you from the unconscious (as symbolized by the water where the seal normally would be) in the form of emotions, gut feelings and so on and could therefore be a “friend” who helps to keep your attachment to the instincts firm and strong.

You’d have to think over whether you already have a kind of “good enough” relationship with this side of you, or instead, whether you’re maybe currently a little rigid in your everyday life and therefore you SHOULD get to know the seal.

In either case, the bear could represent a deeper level of the instincts which is much more intimidating and therefore you understandably don’t trust or like the bear at all.

First off, you can try focusing on the images of the bears in your dreams and write down every spontaneous memory, thought and emotion that comes to mind. Sifting through these can provide some basic clues about the meaning of a bear for you as an individual.

As far as the collective beliefs and impressions made by bears on people as a whole over thousands of years, these include the idea in many cultures that the bear is the central, basic image of a “wild beast”.

Also, its awesome strength and its supremacy in wilderness areas have often made the bear a representative of the whole of nature itself which is both nurturing and cruel.

And from the earliest times, bears have formed a central part of religious practices for many peoples.

Just like nature, a bear has two sides. It can be clever, prudent, “wise” and protective. On the other hand, if crossed, it can become extremely violent and destructive.

In your dreams, the bear is very angry with you, likely because you’re not “treating it right” somehow.

Unfortunately, in practical terms, if a person “angers” his or her instincts too much, an “attack” can potentially take the form of one or more upsetting physical and/or psychological symptoms among an endless list of those possible.

Our job is to meet our inner bear half way by respecting its wisdom while being wary that it could “rear up” in certain circumstances.

Shooting the bear and trying to kill it means that you would be trying to make it totally unconscious (“dead”) and outside of your day-to-day awareness.

But the women in the first dream symbolize things like emotions and “just knowing” what’s right and they won’t let you “kill the bear” or to “run away from the problem” because you’ll never be successful at doing this.

That’s because women are often more in touch with “nature” than men and recognize how crucial it is to never lose touch with this side of ourselves by becoming, for example, too dry and intellectual about things (e.g. you’re found by the bear in a library).

The bear started eating the seal alive including its brain but a baby seal appeared out of the head.

If you already have a kind of good but only light duty connection with your instinctive life, this could represent the need to be willing to “sacrifice” this type of incomplete attitude in order to allow a new approach to appear (e.g. the baby seal). It’s possible that your cousin who you also “sacrifice” in the third dream symbolizes some trait of character or an attitude etc. which will “have to be left behind”.

This would mirror the fact that nature is all about the ongoing cycle of birth and death, so psychologically, we have to try to do the same thing in allowing old attitudes etc. to regularly “die” and be replaced by more fully developed ones even though this can be a painful process.

The idea of being chased in the second dream is doubled by the fact a man and a bear is after you, pointing to the idea that you’re probably trying to run away from certain realizations or situations etc. that are understandably hard to deal with.

While this is comprehensible, it’s probably best to instead “let things be” a while so that a helpful intuition or two could appear which would allow you to go in the right direction to begin solving any dilemma that’s involved (e.g. the girl shows you how to “escape”, the only real escape apparently being to somehow face the bear and figure out how to deal with it without killing it).

You then think of the bear as being the devil which it can be in a sense. That is, it can symbolize the mix of powerful, barely controlled instinctive impulses which can “take over” when we feel “threatened” in some way such as, for example, if we feel we have to “fight and claw our way” to success and money.

Being seized by any such compulsive attitudes and behavior is very frightening, things like excessive pride, compulsive sex, arrogance and an overwhelming need to dominate others etc. etc.
There’s no easy or painless way out of this reality as maybe symbolized by the nasty-looking three-pronged shark-tooth-like lock on the closed gate.

Although the trident of course appears in Greek and Roman mythology, it also appears in European religious stories which connect it with the Trinity.

So through the image of the trident, the highest spiritual side is probably meant to be connected somehow with the lowest earthy side (the trident as being the bear’s tail).

The idea is probably something along the lines that by being a “hero” and overcoming the bear maybe in the sense of having it become your loyal but fierce companion, you could “live out your destiny” more fully and become a more fully-rounded individual over time.

So in this context, the second dream could mean something like, by working day-to-day at this process (e.g. you’re doing your door-to-door sales job in the dream), you could come into the possession of a lot of psychological “nutrition” (the burgers) which could feed not only you but others because you could in some way maybe share it with them over time.

Anyway as mentioned, without knowing anything much about you, this way of looking at your dreams 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 group of dreams.