Anyone wanna try to explain this dream?

[Beloved]

Last night I had a very strange vivid dream. I'd appreciate any help with this dream.

It started off at some sort of luncheon, I was with a group of people including my mother. The other people in the dream are with a group I help out with, it's a church based group. A young man comes into the room because he is hungry, the others tell me to get rid of him because he doesn't belong. He is dressed in black, has a dark beard and looks scary in a goth way. I don't really want to get rid of him but take him outside where I meet up with a young friend of mine, who tells me he is a friend of hers. (In real life this girl has tatoos, piercings and many people are scared of her but I have found her to be really nice.) I figure seeing as he is a friend of hers means he isn't as scary as he looks. I take him back inside and make sure he gets food to eat. We talk for a while and I find he is a really nice guy. He even asks to see me again (as a friend - I'm old enough to be his mother)

Later I catch a taxi back to my parents place, telling the driver to stop outside their place but when I get out I find I am almost back to where I caught the taxi from. I asked the driver where I said to take me he said it was here. I figure it isn't really too far to walk but it's dark and several people I don't know say they will walk with me. As I'm walking down the dark street, I think to myself about why I am doing this with strangers and what if something happens.

I get to my parent's place and notice for some reason Dad has built a wall in front of the house with a tiny door in it, the others with me say something about it. I stand there for a while wondering how to get in, I think I crawled through it. Mum is on the other side and a dog runs in, she tells me I have to get rid of the dog, she's acting like it's a werewolf or something. The dog is sunk in mud, I do what I am told and wrestle it out, wondering what she was on about. In the process I somehow manage to rip the dog's leg off and throwing it to one side, wondering what Mum had gotten me into, the poor dog hadn't been causing any harm and now look what I had done. The dog started running off but when it realised what I had done it understandably got upset and turned vicious. So I'm outside fighting off a vicious dog while Mum had gone inside. I manage to get inside the house and shut the door thinking I was safe. when Mum says to look what I have done. I had left her basket of pegs sitting outside, she opens the door while I am trying to stop her and goes outside to get them. I'm begging her to be quiet but she's ranting over the pegs, the dog turns at the noise, races past Mum and into the house to attack me. That is when I wake up.

[Old Soul]

ok first lets look at your support throughout various aspects of the dream, how you are protected..... I find this part interesting

1) eating with friends a welcoming luncheon -(including mother*) your words
2) the unwelcomed man dressed in dark clothes is a friend of a friend, you discover he is a nice man therefore trusted
3) Man in dark clothes wants to see you again (future event) he is not going away
4) when asking the taxi driver to take you home, he does a circle back to where you were comfortable, perhaps even familiar territory , so you have to walk the rest of the way

5) you walk , you think alone to your blood family's home, but you are not alone, again surrounded although strangers to you , they help you.

6) Dad with his wall up, still leaves room for you to enter, although you and your protective strangers recognise and discuss this, dad still in his nurting loving, fatherly role has made a way for you and your stray dog to enter, through a smaller door

7) the dog is in trouble , (sinking in mud), the dog clearly is not welcomed by mom, dad is silent, you want to respect mom... you try to do things as she asks , so you comply and in your attemepts to please mom , in this venture
you accidently rip his leg off- although this could be interpreted as you ("throwing the dog a bone" - based on your not wanting to alienate the dark clothed man at the luncheon), indicator of your kind nature, but because of moms resistance to this stranger and insistance that this stranger is clearly not welcomed, it does you harm in your eyes

you feel scolded by mom "look what you have done" when clearly had she listened to you in the first place, trusted you and your instincts , and not been distracted by stupid pegs (other things) this whole thing could have been avoided..

possiblities

~ I would explore your relationship with your mother, after all when you describe the luncheon with friends and church group friends you then say " INCLUDING mother" ask yourself is there some misunderstandings between you and she, do you feel not heard by her, is there room to improve your relationship , perhaps some bitterness that must be dealt with on your side .... or is there no problems at all in your mind......

I also question if the actual "dog sinking in mud" is the possible future visit from the dark clothed man in disguise, after all the man was not welcomed in the luncheon, and the dog is not is not welcomed in the home ....

do you have feelings of not being welcomed ?










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[Beloved]

It has given me a lot to think about.

I did say "including mother" because I wanted to point out that she was a part of this group. I will say that often Mum frustrates me, we live too close together and sometimes I feel stifled. We are close but there's such a thing as too close. she can't understand that.

Something I remember about the wall is the dog didn't enter through the door, the wall didn't go all the way across, it wasn't noticable from the front but inside it was.


Oh and guess what is coming up? A Christmas dinner with the group from the dream, I'll have to keep an eye out for the dark man LOL. Actually he is more likely to be a part of me, the part I keep hidden from this group - they are very Christian and even though I was brought up Christian I have been opening myself to other experiences. I know most of them would not be so understanding about it.

[Old Soul]

very good then!! sounds like you are on the right track :-))

I too wondered if the dark clothed man could have been a part of yourself too...........all in all I thought it was a pretty cool dream...