Bear
Often people dream of a bear coming to attack them, but because all the images, people, animals, places we see in our dreams, are simply your own feelings, fears, hopes and wonder projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind as images, there us nothing to be afraid of. So, it makes sense to take the image of your dream person, thing or animal back into you and own it. In that way, you are actually meeting and dealing with the things about yourself you are not owning or conscious of. That is why dreams are often difficult to understand, because we are hiding things from ourselves. To do this you can use – Being the Person or Thing and it is helpful to read Levels of the Brain
Whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen, so that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so, all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind. Also dreams exress in a very ancient language, language that developed in ancient life forms before ever words were invented. The ancient languge is one that has taught youngsters by for millions of years by watching what mother or father fox, bear wolf did – all without words. This photo says it all – the family of bears are intently watching what mum is doing. they learn by seeing it, no words were spoken.
So the angry bear is an image of your own angry feelings that have not been expressed and are attacking you. We now know that such inturned anger can cause illness or depression.
Example: A huge black panther chased me. I fell and it clawed my back. It was about to chew my back to bite me. I didn’t know whether to relax or struggle. After being floored by the Panther I managed to get up. I later imagined being the panther. I allowed the panther to eat me, and I thus became the panther. Then I, as the panther, noticed feeling enormous temper – anger – hate. And I was amazed to see that my cousin Sidney was the cause of such powerful emotions. He was older than me and had mercilessly teased me as a child. The panther was my own feelings of anger, at last released.
But here is a very different example:
Example: I was standing on my patio and there was a bear inside the fence also there were children taunting the bear. I yelled at the kids to stop teasing the bear. Then all of a sudden the bear came towards me; it was a brown bear with its massive size and it stopped and looked at me. Although I was frightened I was courageous enough to pet the bears head, reaching over his large mouth to reach his head. Then, all of a sudden the bear lay on his back and I begin to brush my hand on his chest as to pet him in a downward motion, the bear just gazed at me.
A bear can have a similar meaning to elephant in the eastern countries – a tremendous force or energy, that if met badly can lead to conflict with your own nature and ill health, or if met well can be a tremendous protector and force for good.
Sometimes said to represent a possessive mother, and the feelings this has aroused. But in many cases the bear will represent a meeting with dangerous emotions such as fear, anger or being easily aroused. There might also be associations with independence, or strength. See: Dreams are Like a Computer Game; Animal.
Through television and the many ‘nature’ films which are now a part of our wider education, we can see that the bear is largely a solitary creature, capable of living alone and surviving. This, and its human way of standing and holding its arms out in a hugging posture, may be the major factors from which a ‘bear’ dream arises. In many dreams the bear is not at all harmful, and can be treated as a friend.
Through these we can also see the bear as a wonderful mother and protector.
We may therefore associate the bear with feelings about living alone or surviving by our own strength; it can refer to the confrontation with feelings we have about independence, or the meeting with strength and independence in someone else. It can confront us with massive or dangerous rage, such as ‘the bear with a sore head’. In this case it might represent your relationship with someone who is touchy or grouchy, powerful, possessiveness or smothering, as a parent or lover might be.
Also it might represent your relationship with someone who is a parent or lover; it could suggest a desire to withdraw or hibernate; the ‘animal’ side of our relationship with our parents; a play on words, such as ‘bare’, bare facts, bearing with something or someone, ‘bearing’ ones soul, bearing in mind, a ‘bearer’ of tidings, come to bear, overbearing, getting ones bearings, bear fruit or bear-hug.
If the bear is felt as aggressive and dangerous, ask yourself what in your own inner feelings do you feel is aggressive and you don’t want to let it get out into what you express. In other words. what is it that you habitually repress from being expressed – your anger?
It is best to let the angry bear be expressed in you imagination. You can do this by being the angry bear and let it loose – see – Being the Person or Thing
But the bear can also be like the Beauty and the Beast, in which the dangerous beast is tame with the influence of kindness. So the bear relates to person who can be kind, but could also be a dangerous when roused.
It could suggest a desire to withdraw or hibernate. Because of traditional cultural associations, and its ability to hibernate, the bear can represent the ability to die and be reborn.
As the bear rears its childrfen alone without any male about, if oyu have been in that situation it can reer to you. But whateveer else it represent, remember that is an image of our relationship with our own ‘animal’ side. Please see the following to understand this important feature – Mammal Brain
There can be a play on words, such as ‘bare’, bare facts, bearing with something or someone, ‘bearing’ ones soul, bearing in mind, a ‘bearer’ of tidings, come to bear, overbearing, getting ones bearings, bear fruit or bear-hug. Because of traditional cultural associations, and its ability to hibernate, the bear can represent the ability to die and be reborn.
Bear attacking: It could mean that you are feeling or dealing with anger in yourself or another.
But many people dream of being chased by a bear and maybe run in fear or terror from the bear. Not only in your own dreams, but other people’s, it is obvious that we take into our sleep and dreams all the fears, terrors we carry within us. The huge bear, tiger or frightening person they are terrified of is actually fears either inherited or are frightening experiences from the past. They are purely mental things that you haven’t faced, and are therefore the victims of – victims of your own fears. But in dreams in you cannot die – or drown, or burn or any other threatening thing. We make the mistake of taking our very real values from our outer life into our inner life of dreams. If a bear or critter is chasing you, it is only a dream image and so what are you running from? If you drop the image if the bear/critter what you have is a feeling or emotion such as fear. And why are you running like crazy from an emotion? Remember that nothing can hurt you in your dreams, but you can feel fear. See The animal in my dream
And do not think, “That monster is bigger and stronger than I am, and it is frightening!!” It is our thoughts and fears that create the monsters inside us. So of course you are stronger unless you cower in fear.
But that only refers to outer bears, not dream bears. In some northern towns a bear or polar bear can be a real danger, so in your dreams it may be about a threat you need to keep watch for – although it is a bear in your dream, it could be any threat.
It can also, like the following dream, show a fight against disease.
Example: I dreamt that I was my older brother. As him, and yet at the same time myself, I was trying to fight off an attacking bear. I was doing all I could to defeat it but there was no let up.
Two days later my brother suddenly died from a vicious virus he had contracted while doing his job as a taxi driver. I feel as if I were fighting the disease with him in the dream, but we both lost the battle.
Baby or toy bear: Often represents a child or a young dreamer.
Tame or loving bear: Many people have no fear of animals in their dreams but are like the examples below. Fear is caused because we mix up our dream life with our outer life.
Example: In my dream I was actually happy to see bears lying down at the entrance of my parent’s old house. They were all lying down there as if waiting for me. When they felt my presence they woke up. They were happy and groaning amicably when they saw me approaching them. And there were babies too! I never felt fear or any threat but happiness to see them … and I knew it was mutual.
Example: My dream was not frightful. My Bear dream and I were walking, he put his nose in my hand and nuzzled, we walked home, I went up to my door and Bear went next door and rolled around in the neighbors driveway and rested.
But as people are educated in the modern paradigm, many of us are totally out of touch with the animal that we are, and have never been able to raise it to love and protect us, and instead are often frightened of it when it appears on their dreams. As a child we are often told not to do things – such as do not get angry, or told to be nice to everyone, but the intuitive animal side of us feels and act on its superior insight – that would allow them to mature with our animal self intact so we grow up repressing it, and often miss the natural curiosity of our inner mammal.
So if you have a loving animal dream you have a very good and healthy relationship with your inner animal. See Levels of the Brain and Summing Up
Three bears as with father bear, mother bear etc.: Family situation or parental relationship.
If hint of money in the dream: might refer to ‘bear market’.
Useful Questions and Hints:
What were your feelings and interactions with the bear? (For instance were you avoiding, running from cooperating with, watching from a distance – and where does ‘avoiding’, ‘running from’, ‘cooperating’, or ‘observing’ enter your life at the moment?)
If you imagine yourself as the bear in your dream, what do you feel and experience?
See Stand in Role; Processing Dreams; Summing Up
Comments
I recently have been having dreams of a rather sexual nature. (My guessing being the fact that I am 20 and a virgin, and while I have close female friends, I moved away from all the people I knew in order to attend college. And I’m too introverted to make new friends). However, after the most recent dream, I had a dream that I saw a bear, and in the dream the bear was injured. So I attempted to help the bear recover, and it worked. Afterwards, the bear and I were both close companions, and I kept helping to maintain the bear’s health. I noticed that the bear was very happy, and liked to play around. After initially helping the bear, we walked together, yet whenever people came upon the bear and me when I was at school, they tried to hurt it because it frightened them. (Not sure of the gender of the bear) I protected the bear every time. Soon after leaving the bear to play with some toys in a room while I went to class, I woke up. I’m not sure what the dream meant, or if it had any meaning at all. But I am curious. I have recently been feeling very lonely, despite my loving and caring family (who are all great people). Although, I’m not sure if that has bearing as to the meaning. I am also a nature lover. Thank you for anything and everything 🙂
Dear Draven – Thank you for writing out your dream so well and for sharing something about your life. You do not share anything about your dreams of a rather sexual nature, so I cannot respond to those. Perhaps you feel like reading (any of) these articles;
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/sex-and-identity/; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/sex-while-asleep/; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/sex/; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/sex-and-dreams/; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/
What I see in your dream – and please explore it for yourself as well http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/ – is that it shows how you were once injured and although the dream suggests that you have healed yourself, you are still reliving the story in your mind (and perhaps also in your waking life?);
“After initially helping the bear, we walked together, yet whenever people came upon the bear and me when I was at school, they tried to hurt it because it frightened them. (Not sure of the gender of the bear) I protected the bear every time. Soon after leaving the bear to play with some toys in a room while I went to class, I woke up.”
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition_compulsion
Leaving the bear to play with some toys, suggest that there are attitudes you did not outgrow yet and so you did not change them yet.
I feel it will be helpful to create a new inner story (inner drama) by also questioning your belief; “And I’m too introverted to make new friends.”
What is important to understand, is that our dreams can graphically illustrate our beliefs and what influence they have upon our decision making, responses and relationships. The importance lies in the fact that many of our beliefs are unconscious. They were absorbed in childhood and often remain without any conscious evaluation. Dreams also tend to explore where such beliefs lead us, and what the outcome of holding them may be in certain circumstances.
You can use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/ and I suggest you do not leave the bear to play with some toys, but you take it with you into class, for it will enable this part of you to unlearn old ways of responding to situations – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/habits/ – and develop new attitudes.
Let me know if you have any questions Draven.
Anna 🙂
I had really strange dream last , I was with one guy in an factory warehouse and we were fliming a crazy and big bear killing people . after few seconds
He killed all except me and that guy , He was going out than but suddenly sees us and come running at us , First he killed that other guy , as scared I climbed something but he was tall than he come to kill me , his face was infront of me he was staring at me than I woke up ,shocked bear was still their staring at me , I wipe him out my pellow than he was gone , what does that mean please tell me?
I JUST woke up from my dream and I need your help to figure out what it means. So in this dream me and two of my friends that are girls are walking from our grandmas house to our cousins house in the dark. We stop in the middle of the dirt road because we see something big in the distance. It was a big Grizzly Bear. I thought in my head and then said out loud “RUN!” And we ran but I remembered that you aren’t supposed to run when you see a Grizzly because they can run a lot faster. So I stopped and turned around and the bear is charging me! I’m begin to swing a punch hoping to hurt it bad enough to make it stop attackingbut it’s flys past me then turns around. It runs at me one more time and this time he mocks me over and I lay on the ground looking up at this Magnificent Creature and he starts to maul me so I cover my hands with my arms then I wake up in a hospital hearing the doctors say he was lucky to survive to a girl in the corner of the room that I have never seen that is crying tears of joy and sadness. Then I wake up. Please help me figure out why my favorite animal would attack me in my dream.
A sun bear had a black velvet robe in its hands coming towards me,Trying to fold it around me. as it was coming towards me I felt threatened because it was a bear?? Coming towards me?? Then it wrapped the robe around me and hugged me for a good 20 seconds. I woke up crying in my bed for a good 5-10 minutes because it was the most heart felt hug I’ve ever had in my whole existence on this planet. I really don’t know how to interpret this or how to feel about it but I will never forget this short dream, NEVER! Please let me get some onsite to what this dream means please.
Dear Jasmyn – What I see in your dream – but please explore it for yourself as well http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/ – is that you become aware how healing it can be to not run away from yourself.
Despite you feeling threatened by the sun bear in your inner world at first, you decide to meet this protecting and loving aspect of yourself.
Love of self can open you up and help you release; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/love-of-self/
You do not recognize yet that protecting and loving yourself is a natural part of you and sometimes it takes some more time to integrate this in your waking life.
Writing down your dreams and exploring them can help you on this inner journey towards the love that you have and are.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Anna 🙂
I had a dream last night about someone chasing me at girst no idea who but had sense of fear, i came to a research lab, my lover was there, i tried leaving with him out of the building but when we walked outside the sun shine on him and he started turning into a bear, i was afraid he was going to hurt me but he went back to the research lab so he wouldnt turn to a bear, He asked me to wait for him but i was afraid and climbed atop a roof and looked down hoping he wouldnt find me, do you possibly know what this could mean?
Dear Natalie – An interesting dream! The way I see your dream – but please explore it for yourself as well; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/processing-dreams/ – is that you start with running away from yourself.
Being chased in a dream usually denotes that you are feeling something you fear more intensely and are trying to avoid confronting it. This is not usually a good policy, as you can never get away from yourself.
In the research lab you meet your lover – a symbol for your inner male http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/ .
A research lab can be a place of exploration and so of trying to understand what you are running from, for you had no idea yet; “at first no idea who but had sense of fear.”
The next part of your dream suggests that what you are running from is allowing your energies natural expression, which will help you – your inner male – transform into a stronger and more independent being; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/individuation/
When you return to the research lab you merely use your being introspective and sensitive to all these inner changes as a cue to become fearful of transformation; “he went back to the research lab so he wouldn’t turn to a bear.”
Your heightened awareness and unnecessary concern then mainly produced an increase in fear.
It takes some practice to use your heightened awareness in a way that does not frighten you.
Because heightened awareness enlarges your senses and your awareness of things going on inside and outside of you, you might feel somewhat overwhelmed by it at first; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us-3/#Reaction
Perhaps playing with your dream while using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/ can help you practice while being awake?
Let me know if you have any questions Natalie.
Anna 🙂
I don’t usually dream of animals but last night I had a pleasant one. I was travelling with a group, independently ( meaning I had my own ride some times). it was to share all these precious animals ( that couldn’t go back to the wild or they die) to the public like a circus or rodeo but it was more like a travelling zoo. But it wasn’t to do out of the entertainment, it was to show how amazing, interesting these animals were. To educate people. I didn’t see in my dreams being at a place educating and showing off animals. But I knew that’s what we’re doing. We are happy and so are the animals, we all love each other. The humans took care of the animals with comfort and freedom. Before I woke up in my dream, I was at a highway rest stop, it was big and lucious of green open spaces completely away from traffic. Enough room to stretch the animals my husband and I were transporting at the time. On our way to the next public stop. I decided go stretch the 2 animals we had around the place. We had a gorgeous rare albino ( pure white) fresian ( horse) and a rare albino grizzly bear. My hubsand walked the horse around and I rode the bear up to my travelling group. They were amazed and in awe. The bear gentle loving and loved being rode. All I had was a gentle light harness halter on him due to the law ” in public you need a leash”. The bear and horse both very happy healthy tame kind and gentle never aggressive. None of the animals were aggressive I felt. Then I woke up just after making my way back to the trailer. I never dreamnt of bears or of riding one. But these gorgeous creatures were so breathtaking so gentle that I wonder what it means. I am about 97 to 98% Native American. Wonder if that has anything to do with it. But why now? I’m in my 30s and never dreamnt of anything like this. Cept when I was a kid I dreamnt of having horses and being a retired pro equestrian athlete. But it was just a hobby it wasn’t just the dream itself ( which I dreamnt 7 times). It wasn’t focused on me having horses( just a hobby in dream even though in real life I was an advanced equestrian athlete pro) it was focused on a different story line that had to do with feud business family and the mobsters. But the dream of the white grizzly and riding him like we’re besties is puzzling me.
I just woke up from a NIGHTMARE I was dreaming about a bear stalking lying in wait for its prey. I remember going inside a cabin with my husband and three kids i felt scared like we were running from something I remember making my kids sit down in a room with my husband and I remember walking around the house I opened the door and this bear was lying down at the foot of the stairs maybe a basement or living room area I remember seeing this bear and I was so afraid I yelled for my husband to take my children and run next thing I know he was behind me trying to talk to this bear, and down so that me and the kids kick it away I remember trying to run to a door with my three children I took them put them inside of a cabinet and then I woke up I was deathly afraid I was afraid for my family I don’t know what happened to my husband and I wasn’t going to stay sleeping to find out what does this mean
I have a recurring dream where i carry a little grizzly bear in my shirt pocket – he goes with me everywhere – he roars at me and I pet him on his head.
Hi if you could interpret this dream of mine would really appreciate it 🙂
It was a part of the dream that I remember… I was asked to come out of where i was (house/cabin not sure) and when I stepped outside I could see these big trees and it was quite dark. But I saw a big furry animal inside a big tub or pond playing around with water. I realized it was a bear and was thrilled to see one and said it out loud to my friend beside me. The bear saw us and started growling but when it noticed me looking at it smiling it stopped growling and changed in to a smiling man.
Could you please tel me what this could mean? I don’t really recognize the man as well.
Dear Cham – Because you are the creator of your dream, it will be helpful to explore it for yourself as well, so that you can get a deeper feeling understanding of your own creation; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/
“The story” I see in your dream is that you are asked to “come out of yourself”; to become aware of your feelings; to play with them and to not take them too seriously.
See also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/self-observation/ and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/emotions/
It is not clear from your name if you are a man or a woman and so I am not all the way sure what to make of the last part of your dream where the bear transforms into a smiling man.
What you could do to explore it is to simple think of the bear as seen in your dream and then watch for any thoughts or feelings that might arise – as if listening for a quiet voice – but give it a minute or so; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
After that you could explore the smiling man, who is a part of your inner world as well. (In case you are a woman, please also read; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/archetype-of-the-animus-jungs-view-of-the-male-in-the-female/)
Anna 🙂
I had the strangest dream last night.
I was in a hospital and a killer bear got in – so I ran around to all the wards and closed these big metal barn style doors and latched them closed. the bear was destroying everything and killing everyone. You could hear the screams to know where the bear was.
I then was in a room I locked myself into with some guy I didn’t recognize. We both were laying on separate gurneys that were beside each other and I was swaddling a baby. Then some lady came in, looked at the guy who shook his head no, then she hugged me and said I did a good thing (meaning I saved people by closing all the metal doors). My face and hands were covered in scratches and blood. I looked at my (or the) baby and it was no longer alive. I just held it really close and then I woke up!
Hey, I was just wondering about a dream I had a few years ago. Everyone talks about friendly bears or bears attacking the dreamer, but no one talks about the dreamer attacking the bear.
In this dream I was at some nursing home I had never seen or been at before which housed elders that apparently all looked the same, even the women looked like the men.
Suddenly a polar bear started attacking everyone and I ran into the kitchen, trying to find a weapon to protect myself and save the elderly being attack. However the bear didn’t seem to be hurting them even though they were horribly mauled. I somehow found a sword and ran off to find the bear. However, when I did the bear kept running away from me instead of attacking me. I kept chasing it until I woke up.
It sounds like a silly dream, but my mom told me that animals are significant in dreams and I wanted to know what the dreamer attacking a hostile bear means since there doesn’t seem to be sources on this.
Amanda – There is so much that you need to know about the inner world of dreams. To start with whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind.
It is also important to realise that every image, every scary or terrifying thing, is taken place inside you, in your mind, as you sleep. This means that every awful animal, every scary thing or person, is created out of your own fears and must not be seen as outside you as happens in waking awareness. The problem is that we are often scared of or frightened of actually experiencing our emotions and so they confront us in our dreams. Avoiding them, killing them or controlling them is like running away from oneself – there is no escape.
As you said, the bear didn’t seem to be hurting them even though they were horribly mauled. Of course not, but you probably added the terribly mauled because of your fears. But you yourself have an animal inside you – it is known as the mammalian brain and is part every human being. The functions of the Mammalian brain MacLean likened to the skills shown in mammals such as wild dogs and apes.
Our brain developed its sections over the long span of evolutionary history. Because of this it has, within and also separate from the two hemispheres, a number of levels. As our present brain evolved it developed four separate ‘brains’ or levels, each with its own memory, motor and other functions (David J Mahoney, 1991). Each new level, as it developed, elaborated on and extended the function of the preceding levels.
So your bear is probably an expression of your own animal fears that you have not actually dealt with – instead you exhibited the old animal aggression yourself which arises from fear. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/animals/
Tony
I hope you can help me. I’ve had a recurring dream.
It starts with being at an abandond house deep in the bush. (My dream house in reality) we are standing in the woodshed looking at the house. I was beying it. Inside my head I was thinking I can’t believe I could afford this. That’s when a BIG grizzly comes out of the bush and down the hill. He is walking slowly and magesticly. I look at the house. Then back at my van. I quickly grab my boys and get to the van. The doors are locked but the window is down on the drivers side. I threw my youngest in no problem. My oldest runs to the pass anger side and is waiting for the door to be unlocked. When I turn to grab my middle son he is wandering away from me. Fascinated by the bear. I don’t see the bear again in my dream but I feel his presence. I scramble to get my middle son in threw the window.
I wake-up feeling panicked.
Please help with some clarity on this.
Dear Jackie – Dreams can recur because there is a need to learn something and because there are ways you habitually respond to your internal or external world. Because your attitude or response is unchanging, the dream that reflects it remains the same. It is noticeable in those who explore their dreams using such techniques as described under processing dreams – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/processing-dreams/ – that recurring themes disappear or change because the attitudes or habitual anxieties that gave rise to them have been met or transformed.
What I see in your dream is that the moment you think “I can’t believe I could afford this”, the grizzly bear appears; http://dreamhawk.com/news/avoiding-being-my-own-victim/
To get an understanding of what the fear (lack of trust) is about it will be helpful to explore the symbol of the abandoned house deep in the bush first; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-house-in-your-dream/
It could refer to a more natural state of mind that you left behind and the (painful) memories that are connected with the decision to live a less authentic life; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/authentic-self/
Your dream suggests that you have what it takes to “buy the house”; what I see as allowing for a more natural way of relating to Life; http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-lifestream/
Yet you are backing away when the turning point comes and your fear makes that you cannot enter into “what drives you”; what motivates you.
Getting your sons back in the car suggests an attempt to re-connect again with your inner drive towards expressing more of your potential.
A way to move beyond this point where you got stuck could be to use a tool which is called Power Dreaming; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
A way to get a feeling understanding of “your dream house deep in the bush” is to use “Being the house” and/or “Talking as the house”; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
and
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Let me know if you have any questions Jackie.
Anna 🙂
I had a bear dream last night, I was delivering the mail and all of a sudden a bear came out from under one of the front steps of the houses I delivered to, somehow in a town I used to live in but I have never seen these houses as was in my dream, the bear started chasing me and I was trying to hide from it, it saw me hiding in one of the houses and the house had a glass wall, so the bear was watching me intently, I saw it’s pupils watching me like, when I get uou, it’s so over, like it wanted revenge on me, it knew how to open doors so I found myself hiding in a bathroom with only a cupboard door, I was thinking that here is no way for it to get at me, and I managed to grab a big kitchen knife, but before it could try and get to me, I woke up, this has bothered me only when I’m at home…….I am confused
Anna, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Dear Anna – The way I see your dream is that it starts with bringing something to your attention and it turns out that this is about meeting an aspect of your (inner) life that you have not faced yet and that you are not willing to “let in” because of fear.
So this could be about some unconscious content (and/or the memory of an exterior situation) that you feel threatened by.
Being chased usually signifies that you are becoming more aware of it, feeling it more intensely. So being chased by the bear denotes that you are feeling something you fear more intensely and are trying to avoid confronting it. This is not usually a good policy, as you can never get away from yourself.
I believe it will be a good idea to explore the last part of this dream for yourself: for instance what does it feel like to live behind a glass wall; what does it feel like to be defensive – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/defence-defend-defended-defending/ ; what does it feel like if you open up the door and let the bear in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
You wrote “when I get to you, it’s so over.” It will be over if you make friends with your inner bear, for it is a wonderful strength inside you too.
Anna 🙂
I had this dream of a bear and a baby bear both were brownish/black bears . In my dream we heard someone knocking on the dooropen the door it was a bear and it was snowing . The was knocking hard enough the screen door opened .so my mother in law went out to close the door . I went to close the sliding glass door and a baby bear was there eating cat food . I looked out and all the roads were full of snow . I was thinking to my self in my head man mom is stuck at work cause of the snow . My mother in law was saying the bear is gunna get in . I said no it wont its just cold and wants to be warm and feed .The big made its way to the back of the house and was knocking on the glass sliding door. It stopped snowing and i opened the door and all the bears and the baby ones went walking back towards the tress. I left with a family member to go pick up her income tax return and they were promoting i think it was if you had $5000 and paid a$1000 you could a extra $5000 . She did it and got like $10,000 dollars in income tax return . But in my dream I was with my mom and my family and my husband family.
The night before last I had the worst dream. I don’t remember how it started but I remember seeing a young bear, just a little baby. I tried to pet it and it bit me. It didn’t just bite my hand a little, it literally engulfed my hand and arm, mid-way to my elbow. I remember the terror I felt. I used one hand to pry the top of the Bears mouth open and for some reason I didn’t stop there. I remember thinking I should just run and leave it. But I got angry and I hurt the bear.. I pulled its jaw apart with my hands and at first I was satisfied, happy even. Then I felt pain, emotional pain. My heart began to ache as I realized what an awful thing I had done. The bear was probably defending himself and I could have just ran and left it. I don’t know by I felt the need to hurt the bear so badly. As I contemplated why I had done something so horrible, I heard large running footsteps. Not like a human. I turned and it was the mother. I don’t know how but I just knew. And I knew that she knew I had hurt her baby. I ran. I ran as fast as I could and she chased me. I remember being so scared and hurting so much for what I had done. I woke up before the bear caught me and I was crying. I immediately felt wrong. I just didn’t feel right. Like something was wrong and I didn’t know what. I felt like that all day and didn’t want to get out of bed or even eat. I had the dream once more before I got up for the rest of the day. By then it was nearly 8:00 p.m. and I still didn’t want to leave my bed. I went to my mother and she comforted me but the feeling still wouldn’t go. Today I woke up and still had the same feeling as yesterday, just not as strong. My mother went sent me this link but I still don’t understand. If anyone can interpret this dream and help me I’d greatly appreciate it.
Dear Lindsay – Thank you for sharing your dream and what your reaction was when you woke up.
You wrote “I immediately felt wrong. I just didn’t feel right. Like something was wrong and I didn’t know what”.
I believe it is okay to learn to become aware of what does not feel good inside yourself AND to learn to be gentle with yourself while you are exploring a way to approach your fears/terror, which is what you did in your dream when the baby bear took your arm in its mouth.
When you can learn to give yourself that much inner space and freedom to explore, then I believe that you do not have to deal with this inner conflict anymore where you are chased by what I see as feelings of guilt; symbolised by the mother bear coming after you in your dream.
As far as the baby bear is concerned and your relationship with it, I feel it will be more helpful to you if you try to explore that for yourself.
A way to do that is to imagine yourself back in the dream while you are awake and to explore both the young bear and your own dream figure as she appears in the dream by using “Being the person or thing” and/or “Talking as the dream character”.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
The baby bear is probably a symbol of inner (sexual?) drives that still need to grow and develop and exploring this part of your dream can help you to move beyond your fears and will enable you to develop a working relationship with this part of your unconscious mind (too).
Try to think of your unconscious mind as an area of yourself that for one reason or another you cannot yet see.
Another helpful approach to explore your dream and to play with it, without taking it all too seriously, is to use Power Dreaming.
Your dreams are a unique area of self-expression and a safe area to experiment and experience things in ANY way you wish.
While doing so try to observe your feelings without judging them as “wrong” or “right”. Learning to recognise and stay with your feelings can be a valuable experience. You can learn that you do not have to act on something just because you feel it. Or that you can be angry and choose how to respond, rather than let the anger control you.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
Does that give you a start?
Anna 🙂