Dog
The dog appears more often than any other animal in dreams. It depicts our natural drives that are well socialised, but still have the tendency to revert back to the spontaneous or ‘wild’ state quite easily. For instance our anger might usually be well under control, but if someone teases us we might surprise ourselves by the amount and strength of our anger, or our desire to cower and hide. But the dog is often a sign of enthusiasm, care or warning – as can be observed so often if we have a dog. See animal
Example: I had misinterpreted the meaning of Tramp my dog, who I felt was my inner self. I now see that Tramp is my psychic self, the mixture of instinct, complexes, feelings and closeness to nature. Possibly my intuitive, habitual or instinctive response to events. He is my companion on walks, to run faster, react quicker, smell better, fight more savagely, and face hardship.
Similarly our sexuality may be usually expressed in a socially acceptable way, but if we are in a situation where our sexual pleasure is stimulated or allowed easy expression we might deeply shock other people and ourselves by what we do. It can also represent easy expression of such aspects of ourselves as aggression – maybe because dogs show their teeth easily – as well as their sexuality, especially male sexuality; also their easy expression of love. Also the parts of self we usually keep out of sight, but which may express spontaneously. The dog as an example of intuition is shown in the following dream.
Example: Was crawling through a tunnel underground. I was now in a dreary, dismal, drab Edwardian type room. My mother, father and my dog, Tramp, were also there. It was quite a big room. Tramp went up to the fireplace and put his paw up under the shelf as if pointing. I looked and saw he was indicating a crevice under the shelf. I felt there and found papers in there, but also that there might be fingers in there touching mine. I said this to my father, but he did not reply. The hole was getting bigger all the time, and the room darker.
The dogs can represent this feeling energy, this natural life response to events and ones situation, our easy flowing natural feelings such as devotion, perhaps to a lover or child. The dog is yourself if, the natural you if you let your emotions off the lead. So it can be your uninhibited love or anger, your open sexuality, or even your honest needs.
For some people a dog was the only source of expressive love in their childhood, so may well depict this; fidelity and faithfulness, as the sheep-dog it is also the guardian of our welfare. Like the cat, the dog can be a substitute baby for childless women, or represent affection or caring.Occasionally we depict a person, or what we feel about a person through the character of a dog. See: cat.
Example: Actually seeing a dog in my dream I find not the dumb animal that humans patronizingly assume to be there, but a creature of remarkable complexity and deep emotions, capable of various levels of behavior, of guilt and loyalty, or shame, of identification with people—a creature so like themselves that other distinctions seem negligible. It broke down my assumptions of superiority. It sent me spinning back to the sense of kinship with animals that primitive men, in their rituals and folk myths, so clearly revealed. I found myself becoming snakes, tigers, bears, rabbits with such ease and pleasure that there would seem to be a veritable menagerie in the back of my mind. Moreover, the conviction of animal identity, once accepted, is terribly convincing. Having accepted the limited truth of my animal kinship, I am loath to see the broader areas in which such a communion is untrue. See Animals in your Brain – Temple of the Animals
Example: The role then came to life and spontaneously I as Vince the dog went to Alan and stood up on my hind legs with my paws on his chest, looking into his eyes. I wanted to communicate something to him.
The communication was so strong that I as Alan felt it and will describe it. Vincent reminded me of the many things we had shared in life. As this happened I felt such love – the love I really had felt for that beautiful dog. As I felt this Vincent and I became one being. I remember carrying him in my arms when he was young because, as a runt he was so nervous that at times he couldn’t even walk. I remember going everywhere with him as I walked London. I also knew that Vincent represented for me the ability to see into the invisible worlds – psychic sight and sensing. He had demonstrated it to me at least twice.
As all these memories poured through me I felt deep emotions pouring up and started crying. Crying because Vincent was helping me be aware of things I had not put together before. Lately I have been trying to extend personal awareness again, into lucidity and into the world. The emotions I was feeling were due to a realisation, and as this happened I knew what the previous dream of Vincent meant. I understood because various bits of memory came together to form a whole.
In mythology the dog has symbolised the guardian of the gates of death, or a messenger between the hidden and the visible world. The dog was also thought of as a guide or guardian of the hidden side of life entered in sleep and death. The following example illustrates how love can survive death.
Example: It involves my dad and his English bulldog, Chauncey. They were big buddies. Chauncey even went to work with Dad. Several years after Chauncey’s death, I dreamed of a female English bulldog who was very pregnant! A few weeks later, she appeared to me again, smiling proudly at two adorable puppies. One was brindle and the other was brindle and white. She showed me her house and street sign. The name of the street was Rosebud Lane. Then Chauncey appeared in the dream and told me he was returning and he would be the puppy that walked to me first! The next day I got the classifieds and started calling. It didn’t take long, the second call was located on Rosebud Lane. When I arrived, the mother dog looked just as she had in the dreams. She even acted like she knew me. I stood back and waited. Shortly, the little brindle and white puppy waddled to me. Dad cried when I handed the pup to him. Reincarnated bulldog…why not? By the way, Chauncey had a nickname…it was Rosebud!
Dogs can be a wonderful intuitive friend, even life saver. This is because it has been proved that dogs often know when their owner is ill or about to have an attack. But dogs are also very psychic. See Talking with Dead also Cats and dogs know
Example: In a dream, my dog, Gus, told me he had worms and needed to go to the doctor. We went the next morning. Dr. Dennis Umlang looked at Gus, a picture of health, then asked why the visit. I – told him Gus needed to be checked for worms. “Have you seen any evidence of worms?”, he asked. “No.” I answered, “but I still want him checked.” The testing showed negative. I told Dr. Umlang the dream and asked that they try again. That’s when he told me of the heartworm test which is costly but the only way to detect their presence. “Do it,” I said. The test was positive! Ordinarily there is no real warning of heartworms. By the time symptoms appear it is often too late and treatment is dangerous due to the animal’s weakened condition. Because of early detection, Gus survived the treatment with no damage to vital organs.
Barking dog: A warning or a sign of protection. Warning that something or someone is there who is not a friend – or that you should not approach whatever is shown in the dream.
Black dog: The black dog figures in quite a lot of people’s imagery. Bernard Levin uses it to represent depression. For some people it brings feeling about death. The sense or meaning the dog gives in relationship to depression or death in dreams is that it is a living energy in us that has gone ‘bad’ and thus causes the depression or death. Such depression is usually the result of past painful experiences that are like lumps blocking free flowing positive life energy.
The black dog also show you urges which are largely unconscious, or it is a messenger related to what is unconscious in you. So the black dog can indicate sexual feelings that you are not proud of, or any natural feelings, even feelings of love that you hold back.
Dog attacking: Either being attacked by someone and so representing their anger or snide criticism – or your own anger or aggression. See: What Does my Dream Animal Mean
– Animal phobias at the end of the animal entry.
Dog on lead attacking: If you are holding the lead – restraint of your aggression toward someone. If someone else is holding the lead – feeling attacked by someone. As in Cornelia’s dream in the example below, there may be a sexual connection.
Dog on lead: Restrained or controlled urges; urges we have trained or directed; holding back or restraining or directing parts of oneself.
Puppy: Youth, heedlessness, spontaneous affection and enthusiasm. It often represent a child, or feelings about wanting a child, being pregnant with a child, even one of your own children. Also vulnerability or dependent needs. Like any young animal, it can depict your need to care for or love something, or be loved. What happens to the puppy, if neglected or mistreated, most likely indicates memories of pain from your own childhood, or neglect of vulnerable parts of yourself. See: Baby animal in animal situations; Neglected animal in animal situations.
Woman’s dream – attacked by dog: Could well be feelings about male sexuality or a relationship with a male. Possibly the dreamer is holding back her own female strength and cannot meet the male strength.
Example: ‘I continue on my path, and suddenly the nettles disappear and the path is clear. Ahead the wall has curved round to face me, but there is a gate in it, and I can see my dog waiting for me on the other side.’ Mrs M. G.
In the dream from an elderly woman the dog is leading the way through the experience of meeting death. Mythology has often shown the dog in this light, as an inner sense of knowing how to find transformation through death – or as the ravaging threat of death.
Example: I was with a female friend who is a lesbian. Two dogs attacked us. My friend ran away but I couldn’t. Cornelius.
On exploring her dream Cornelius discovered feelings about her own womanhood and relationship with males. She realised the dogs represented her relationship with male sexuality, and that her friend was afraid of males.
Example: I was aware of the danger of two, or maybe one young child. They had been allowed to carry a small animal which acted as a scent lead for large tracker dogs that were hunting and would attack and kill whatever they were tracking. I found one of the boys trying to hide under a pot or a basin in the spare ground behind the house I lived in London. I pulled him out from his attempts to hide. He had no idea of his danger. Two of the dogs – perfectly harmless and friendly when not hunting, were coming close to me and trying to lick me. They had huge mouths. I got very angry with one man, a farmer type, who I thought had been careless in the way he was urging the dogs to hunt. I swore at him in public, calling him something like a ‘fucking idiot’. There was a large public gathering and I wondered what the public would think of me swearing. D.G.
There is an obvious reference in this dream to the unconscious urges some people have to hunt and hound others. The dogs especially depict this unleashed aspect of human nature, harmless when not set into motion. It also shows how such actions by others threaten the child in us, or the areas of personal vulnerability.
Example: I come out of my house. Across the street is a nursery. (this is actually true, there is a nursery across the street and the street is well used and busy) I looked up to see my yellow male Labrador dog named Odo. (He is a dog I have now) He was sitting in a truck on the passenger side. He looked like he was smiling. I thought, “What in the world is Odo doing in that truck?” At first I thought he was driving the truck, but then realised that he wasn’t, an ancient old man was. And the truck was weaving from one side of the street to the other. I yelled for Odo to come back and he jumped out of the truck. How I don’t know. But he did. He came running toward me, but there was a chain-linked fence between us. The fence ended at the street, but Odo was attempting to climb over the fence instead of going around it. I shook my head and said to myself that he was going to hurt himself. Sort of laughed, too. Then I woke up. I remembered thinking the day before that I was comparing my husband, A, to Odo. And thinking if I could just accept the silly things he does as well as I do with my dog, our relationship would be so much easier. K.
In this dream K. is probably right that she is using her dog to consider her relationship with her husband. She may even be using the dog as an image of her husband and his character.
Idioms: See a man about a dog; hair off the dog that bit you; call off the dogs; you can’t teach an old dog new tricks; raining cats and dogs; dirty dog; as sick as a dog; dog eat dog; dog in the manger; dog tired; dog’s life; gone to the dogs; let sleeping dogs lie; lucky dog; tail wagging the dog; top dog; die like a dog; dirty dog; gay dog; go to the dogs; hair of the dog; sick as a dog; lucky dog; raining cats and dogs; see a man about a dog; teach an old dog new tricks; tail wagging the dog; thrown to the dogs; etc.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is my dream dog represent someone I know or my own spontaneous feelings?
Is there any indication of relating to this dog as a child or a love object?
What feelings is the dog expressing?
Is the dog helping me meet or understand death or the unconscious?
If so what am I learning?
See Secrets of Power Dreaming – Life’s Little Secrets – Dream Yoga
Comments
Hi, last night I have a dream that im in a bathroom with a dog tied to a leashed. Then suddenly the dog was sprayed by water, it started to shiver because it feels cold. I hug the dog and try to make it feel warm, then I try to open its mouth and somehow theres something stuck in it. I try to take it out, the first attempt failed, but the second attempt succeeded. Its somewhat a cloth, and i started thinking how it got in there. Then the dog became furious, I try to calm it down but, it became more furios and somehow the dog focused its aggresiveness at me at the end of the dream before i woke up.
Ryno – The dog relates to your own instinctive feelings, feeling sometimes you may not be directly aware of. And the cloth down the dogs throat probably refers to the saying, “Put a sock in it”, meaning at some time you must have been criticised for being noisy or angry.
The dog focussed its anger on you because it wanted you to realise and release your own anger. Obviously it is not good to release it on someone else, or even turn it inwards on yourself, as the dream shows. A helpful technique is to take a tennis racquet or rolled up newspaper and while holding it, automatically beat a mattress or cushions with it. The aim is to allow the feelings to flow into the movement. It often helps to shout out what you feel and see if you can get the feelings in the dream flowing.
Tony
I dreamt about a brown dog, a female Irish setter. I have never had a dog before, so this is strange. When I first went to this local club there were 3 or 4 dogs. I am usually afraid of them and keep away ,so I did. But this particular dog the Irish setter, kept coming back and since there was no other way I decided to stop being afraid and pat its head. It put its head on my lap and looked up at me with those sad glistening eyes. It started talking to me. She said she was sad for her fiancee and also it was his birthday and she wanted to get something for him. I talked to her, took care of her and later when no one was watching i got some icecream sundae for her to take. But she was reluctant, and then everybody else noticed and started talking to her (the Irish Setter) and then they realizes who’s dog it was , a sweet little waitress who was working right behind the counter, then she left me and went to her owner. I told the waitress girl how lucky she was. This is extremely strange.I strongly believe in my dreams and believe they have a voice, but I have never had a dog neither a friend like that whom I could have helped. I can’t understand what it means. I really would like to know. Its really strange to dream of talking to a dog.
Lilo – You must remember that dreams are not simply human imagination, they are an expression of the deepest aspects of Life itself. Behind the image lies enormous data, emotional response and created patterns of behaviour. So the main thing to remember is that you are in a full surround databank of fantastic information. You can tap this information just as you would with any person, by asking questions and prodding for a response. But, even the trees and animals in your dreams are also enormous reservoirs of information, linking back perhaps infinitely with your potential and experience. Everything is an aspect of you, a living miracle of integrated functions. Every dream image is also an expression of an intelligence that our conscious mined knows little of. So dogs, cats, trees, rivers can talk with us and give us their secrets. See – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-exploring-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Tony
Hi,
I had a dream. I will just make it short. I have dreamed of 2 dogs. One is black with small thin body, the other one is mixed black and white with a vicious aura. The black and white dog get angry with the black, and as I passed by I saw the black and white dog eating the ear of the black dog but the black dog appeared defenseless and did nothing but moaned. I had an intuition that the black dog will be eaten and it happened. I didn’t look back to check what’s happening but I heard the grinds and chews produced. Then suddenly I felt that I will be attacked sooner so I run as fast as I could. But my leg has been attacked then I soon wake up. What does it mean?
Thanks Tony in advance!
i had a dream… where my dogs tail was separated from his body. it was cause he got into a fight with other dogs. when i saw my dog without his tail i thought i had to find it and re-attach it. so i found it in the grass and when i picked it up it was still moving. i went back, re-attached it and it was like a magnet when it re-attached. in the end me and my mom went to the hospital and the docters ended up fixing my dog, but changing entirely how he looks.
(my dog is fluffy, brown black and little white with erect ears) (dog that came back out was all white with droopy ears)
what does my dream even mean..?
i had a dream, i was on the other side of the building.from where i was on top of the building i saw people from the roof top partying.and there were 2 white dogs .and one dog jumped out of the building and the other dog was left behind.in my dream it seems like the dog was so scared because of the noise from the people around.what was the meaning of my dream
Zenith – I seemed from your dream that you achieved a higher view of things. The rooftop enabled you to see more than usual. And from that perception you could see people partying. I wonder what you felt as you watched them, as our feelings and attitudes are what creates dream action.
But perhaps you saw what created the dream from the dogs. The dogs are an expression of your own instinctive feelings, and they are quite subtle and without judgement; spontaneous. So one part of you does not like the atmosphere of the party and another part stays. So do you have a conflict in you about such social events?
Tony
I had a strange dream last night.
I was sitting somewhere and a dark grey dog came up to me looking for my company or someone to be around. I stroked his head.The dog looked quite sad and I noticed that it’s body was completely opened up on it’s stomach and I could see inside it. There was no blood at all, there was empty space but I could see some inner parts. (Remember details like yellow bodytissues, etc) It didn’t look like it was dying but it shouldn’t have been alive with a ‘wound’ like that. after this it’s short tail broke off in front of me. Do you know what this could mean?
Trix – If you read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/ it says and describes how each dream image is an aspect of ones own emotions, fears or even genius. So your dog is showing you how you have been badly wounded. Sometimes we are unaware how badly things have affected us. When I was a child I was surrounded by guns going off – big ones – and threats of bombs falling. At the time I wasn’t aware of it, it was just normal life. But as an adult that filtered through and influenced the way I saw and responded to life. See http://dreamhawk.com/poems/the-air-raids-1940s/
So your dream is a little of the feeling poking through into awareness. It is shown as a dog because it is the life in you that felt the pain, below your normal self, the same as mine. You might be able to help the dog and understand it by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-exploring-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Tony
Thank You! So very true. Interesting articles too!
I have been able to help myself or make a change in situations in dreams before, but not sure I knew how to do it well/why it was important and this dream wasn’t clear to me. This was very helpful, thanks again!
last night I dreamt that I was with some friends and we’d won two dogs in some kind of tombola, one was an older dog and the other was a puppy. Myself and other people (not sure who) were walking these two dogs down a quiet street, a paved street, to return the dogs because I didn’t want to look after them, and I threw a ball for the puppy to run and catch. The puppy ran into the paved road to get the ball and the next thing a police car came hurting down the road and squashed the puppy flat. Someone said to me “you are in trouble now” but the police didn’t stop. I took the older dog back to the tombola people, and told them I only wanted the puppy, so I didn’t have to tell them I’d let the puppy get run over. This morning I feel terrible about the dream and it has unnerved me, like something bad is about to happen. Tony, what do you make of this dream?
Andrea – The theme of your dream is about you being involved in Fate’s workings – Kismet or Destiny. It gave you two things to care for, a young and playful thing and an older mature life. You wanted to hand back the responsibility and in doing so killed the youngest urges through feelings of right and wrong or morality.
The bad feeling is a realisation, though still lost in symbols, of what you have done to yourself. Fortunately you can make amends, say sorry and take responsibility for the subtler sides of you. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/
Tony
Last night I had a dream about my dog who we had to put down in February..in the dream I was giving him a belly rub and he was happy and then he went to the rug in the bathroom where he liked to sleep. In the dream it was mentioned that he was getting old. What does this mean? We did talk about him the night before we went to bed.
ACM – I believe your dream is a mixture of things that you believe and a possible link with your dog. The thing about him ageing is probably something you thought and so added it. Dogs at death regain their youth and vitality in their afterworld.
Tony
I recently lost my best friend, my Pebbles. I miss her so much that perhaps she’s trying to connect with me through my dreams only I don’t know how to figure them out. I’m lost on all the memories and thoughts I keep having, and the vivid dreams. Please help me. I woke up a few nights ago to an image of Pebbles sitting right next to me. I could see her in the dark, her figure, her looking over me and then I tapped my arm on my bed so that she’d get on the bed like usual ( i knew in the back of my mind that it couldn’t be happening but I ignored it) I fell back asleep and then I woke up. All I could think about was her. Last night I dreamt that I was out at a meeting with a lot of my friends and she showed up. In my dream I was trying to figure out why she was there I kept telling everyone it wasn’t right because I knew she had been in the accident. I couldn’t figure out why she was there. Is she trying to tell me something? Or does she not want to leave my side? Both times that I have seen her in my sleep I haven’t been able to see her furry face only the image of her, she hasn’t barked or connected to me like usual. I saw her running during her last seconds and then the car got her. I can’t get the image out of my head and I know that it happened. I miss her so much. To make matters worse I’m currently pregnant so i don’t know if my hormones are to blame for my overreaction to my hurt or the dreams I can’t understand.
Lynn – I think you are confusing the world of dreams and the very different world of waking. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/
Dogs have a life after death the same as humans, especially when loved as mush as you loved Pebbles. So it sounds as if she was visiting you. Here is a true story about dogs surviving death,
Greg was driving with his family and dachshund dog across an area of the US he had never been before. They were passing through farming country, it was fine, and the dog had its nose out of the window sampling the new smells. Suddenly the dog became agitated and leapt out of the window of the moving car. It recovered from the fall and rolling, and ran headlong across a field toward a farmhouse. Greg stopped the car and immediately chased after it wondering what was going on, as the dog had never before done such a thing. On arriving at the farmhouse he found his dog, still excited, trying to get into an outbuilding. He explained as best he could to the woman owner of the farm, Kath, why he was there, and she opened the door to the barn. The dog immediately ran to a ladder leading to a hayloft. Despite its shape, the dachshund climbed the ladder, and whining, ran around the loft sniffing and searching. Then, having searched it became quiet and from there on was normal again.
Kath, having witnessed this, told Greg a strange story. Some years before, her son had owned a farm dog, a bitch, whom he loved. He had trained the bitch to climb the ladder in the outbuilding, because it was fun to see her running up and down. One cold winter when she had her first litter of pups, the place she chose to give birth was up in the hayloft. Perhaps she felt it was a safe place for them to be. Shortly afterwards a phone call came reporting an emergency with a family member. Kath was upset, her son was away, and she rushed out of the house, only realising later that the dog was locked in the house and couldn’t get to her pups. When Kath got home three days later and opened the door, the dog streaked out of the house to the barn to feed its pups. It was so frantic that it fell from near the top of the ladder because of the ice, and died from the fall. What Kath felt that she and Greg had witnessed was the return of that mother to satisfy a frustrated need to find its pups. Even death did not end that love.
The best thing you can do is to explain to her – dogs can understand even though they cannot speak – that she was killed by a vehicle. And say that you love her and she should go into dog heaven, and only visit you when necessary or wants to communicate something.
Tony
Also I forgot to mention my ex and I are no longer friends and don’t speak to each other in the dream when he show me her.. He told me that he took/stole her from me cause he was mad at me and he wanted me to feel pain when she is gone… he was tryin to get back at me.. Cause in reality I broke up with him and have him arrested… In the dream he give me a reason why he took her in the frist place.. I don’t really remember why but kind of had to do with trying to get back at me… My dog mean a lot to me and in some way you can help me understand my dream… Thanks you
I have a husky malamute who I love to death.. She was my baby… I lost her once I move in with my sister and her husband cause I have to keep her outside and took off and I never found her again.. This is my dream. My I was at like this really weird confusing place.. It look like a 3rd world country but than it wasn’t.. I dream that I saw my ex and we both were arguing about my dog and I told him I blame him for the lost of my dog.. (we both rise her,even tho she was my baby) and he give me this look like he know/got something for me and I ask him do you know anything about beauty (thhat my dog name) and he said maybe and I ask him again to tell me and thats when he open the door and she was there looking at me and I saw her I started to cry really hard and ran up to her and she came up to me letting me hold her and crying like crazy.. I told her I miss her and love her and for her to never ever leave me… She just sit there like she knew how much I miss and love her and regret tooling off… It feel so real… She was my baby and I wonder what does this dream me.. The first tine I lost her for a month and days before I found her again I dream that she came back with her “cousin” a pit and a rottie.. Both of those dogs was my sister dogs and some other animals friends… Both of the cousin dogs also took off and got lost.. I miss my dog so much that it’s weird that I haven’t had a dream about her until now.. What does it mean.. Please help
Hi, I am a 43 year od woman. In my dream, I was at some outing with my husband and son. While strolling, someone’s dog came and hugged me real tight. The owner came and tried to make the dog let go. It was not a struggle. We are gently trying to make the dog let go, After a short while, the dog loosened its grip and let go. But, the dog had fainted. And both the dog and I were drenched in sweat. The dog was female. and the color of a yellow lab.
Could you help interpret this for me. Thanks.
Pratibha – This is an unusual dream. I have never heard of a dream in which a dog hugged you. And it sounds as if there was a lot of feeling in it for you both to perspire so much. So I feel the dream is about a big event in your life. The dog fainting as well says how big a thing for the female dog it was.
The beginning of your dream shows you in a happy situation in your marriage, and that should be remembered.
A dog is a sign of your natural feelings and even body condition. So in some way it was communicating a message to you – one female to another. I think it may have something to do with the menopause. The perspiration and the dog fainting suggest such a big event. And menopause is a big event in a woman’s life.
I may be wrong in what I say. But I know there is life after menopause. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/questions/#Meeting Menopause
Tony
Thank you for this Dog and dream info. I woke up crying last night from a vivid dream where I was told that our Akita,Gigi, had been torn into five pieces but that our husky, Deiter, was ok.
I thought in the dream, how will I go on without Gigi and with only Deiter?They are both five years old and healthy.
In real life we are going back to being a family of five on May 11th when husband returns from alcohol rehab-outpatient and he stay over last night for first time in a month.
I am thinking it means my loyalties are going to be divided once husband is back,between two adult kids and one teen living here.
I only saw one piece of my dog in dream and cried so much I woke myself up crying. Felt terror and loneliness and sadness.
Your info on dogs in dreams was so helpful, thank you! Dana
I looked outside saw my dog and my mother coat was attached to the dog leash. She was walking then my dog. Jewels started running and my mother was drag down the street. She was drag under cars. Start rolling over while being drag by the dog.
So I had this dog for years and she died, I wasnt particulary fond of it but I didnt hate it or anything. Well I had this dream that she ran up and I said to my mom I thought she was dead, mom said me too. So I finally recognize that it really was her and I was so happy to see her. It was a really good dream and I felt very happy in it. What does it mean?
Mary – It means exactly what you said, “I finally recognized that it really was her and I was so happy to see her.”
Dogs have afterlife too. Here is a lovely true story to illustrate it.
Greg was driving with his family and dachshund dog across an area of the US he had never been before. They were passing through farming country, it was fine, and the dog had its nose out of the window sampling the new smells. Suddenly the dog became agitated and leapt out of the window of the moving car. It recovered from the fall and rolling, and ran headlong across a field toward a farmhouse. Greg stopped the car and immediately chased after it wondering what was going on, as the dog had never before done such a thing. On arriving at the farmhouse he found his dog, still excited, trying to get into an outbuilding. He explained as best he could to the woman owner of the farm, Kath, why he was there, and she opened the door to the barn. The dog immediately ran to a ladder leading to a hayloft. Despite its shape, the dachshund climbed the ladder, and whining, ran around the loft sniffing and searching. Then, having searched it became quiet and from there on was normal again.
Kath, having witnessed this, told Greg a strange story. Some years before, her son had owned a farm dog, a bitch, whom he loved. He had trained the bitch to climb the ladder in the outbuilding, because it was fun to see her running up and down. One cold winter when she had her first litter of pups, the place she chose to give birth was up in the hayloft. Perhaps she felt it was a safe place for them to be. Shortly afterwards a phone call came reporting an emergency with a family member. Kath was upset, her son was away, and she rushed out of the house, only realising later that the dog was locked in the house and couldn’t get to her pups. When Kath got home three days later and opened the door, the dog streaked out of the house to the barn to feed its pups. It was so frantic that it fell from near the top of the ladder because of the ice, and died from the fall. What Kath felt that she and Greg had witnessed was the return of that mother to satisfy a frustrated need to find its pups. Even death did not end that love.
Tony