Horse Horses
There is not so much difference between the horse and the dog. They are both domesticated animals, and so represent urges and drives in ourselves we have learned to harness or direct. The big difference is that the horse can carry us and serve us in our labours much more powerfully than a dog.
For myself I feel the horse is the most beautiful and loved herbivore.
The dream horse also depicts or expresses our pleasurable energy and exuberance, the sort of enthusiasm or feelings of well-being that can ‘carry’ one through the day easily; dynamic sexual drive; the physical energy and life processes that ‘carry’ us around. As such it may also link with the life processe. Horses like other animals are quick to respond to love and danger. So they can be panicked and you can feel the effect of this part of you. See Mammal Brain
The energy that carry – or pull – us through growth and ageing, as happens when we dream of a horse drawn carriage or cart. Therefore in old age the unbidden processes which move us toward death may be depicted as the horse in a threatening or helpful role. The horse depicts human instincts that have been harnessed or socialised for generations, but have perhaps been let slide into non-use or crushed. It is also survival drive, sexuality, love, all yearning toward service, toward metamorphosis, all that has powerful energy to move us.
A horse or a man on a horse can sometimes signify a messenger or a message.
In his book Dreams and Dreaming, Norman MacKenzie says the horse ‘… is dynamic power and a means of locomotion; it carries one away like a surge or instinct. It is subject to panics like all instinctive creatures which lack higher consciousness. Also it has to do with sorcery and magic spells, especially the black, night horse, which heralds death.’ In a woman’s dream the horse can sometimes represent her relationship with a man and the power and strength she gets from that, as in the following dream.
Example: As I talked to the pale golden horse it felt more and more as if I was talking to a male companion who was in union with me. As I talked about my mother, she was standing before me in full anger and blaming me for bringing out the witch in her. H.
Example: A rather shadowy man in a building opposite to where I used to live as a teenager was introducing me to a new job. I seemed to understand that I was to do a milk-round. He led a small horse from out of the building. It was to draw a cart. When the horse saw me it ran to me and become very excited and loving, rubbing against me and licking me with a very long tongue. I was both pleased and slightly threatened. Threatened because it was so intense. At one point though we rubbed against each other with a degree of sexual pleasure.
I believe many young girls feel totally as if they are fully connected and loved as the photo illustrates.
But our dream horse can be a wonderful guide and mirror for us.
Example: I love horses too and they are great teachers, for they mirror what goes on inside us. I used to ride horses for many years and when I was not convinced about what I asked the horse to do, it would not consider me as its leader and was more likely to refuse to do what I had asked. Their sensing is perfectly developed. Anna, A few weeks ago I saw a documentation about Buck Brannaman. He says –
“Your horse is a mirror to your soul, and sometimes you may not like what you see. Sometimes, you will.” So says Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for nine grueling months a year helping horses with people problems.
Black or dark horse: Unaccepted passions; threat of death. The unknown parts of your tremendous energy arising out of unconscious processes. The dream horse represents the very long history we have had with horses, through peace and terrible wars there are very long associations we have with them. It shares all that with us and so can be realisations emerging from our long past. Or it can represent threatening changes. Riding a black horse can represent the amazing energy used to bring awareness of things that had been unconscious into consciousness.
Blinkered horse: Not allowing oneself to see what is happening around you; anxiety about life, or an attempt to control ones natural anxiety or panics.
Controlling the horse or fear of it: Trying to control, or fear of, feelings of love and sexuality, of our own natural drives and emotions that are powerful enough either to give us motivation in our activities, or drag us along unwillingly.
Dead horse: Serious loss of energy or motivation which could lead to illness or depression; an old and dying set of habits and motivations or way of life.
Falling off horse: Relating badly to ones urges and needs. This could result in tension, breakdown or illness.
Grooming a horse: Taking care of ones basic needs such as food, shelter, sex.
Horse and carriage: The natural processes of life that move us through youth to old age; forces that can move us, either from within or as natural events, but which, if we are relating well to the horse, we can guide in some measure. It can also indicate the inner power which brings thoughts to awareness, things you might be blocking to think about. The horses represent the power which draws the mind.
Horse dragging the dreamer along: Impetuosity of feelings; feelings dragged along by natural urges.
Horse loving you or expressing sexual feelings: The flow of positive and natural sexuality and warmth from within.
Horse race: The events of everyday life, and your relationship with people; everyday competition and where you rate yourself in it; what happens in the race shows how you are relating to opportunity, or how you feel about your accomplishments and being part of the ‘human race’.
Horse running freely: Allowing ones emotions or sexuality free reign; love of life.
Horse unwilling to move or carry: Your inner natural reaction is against the action or direction you are trying to go. Sometimes this is a warning that you should not go in that direction.
Horseshoe: Good luck, receptivity if prongs upwards; bad luck or lack of receptiveness if prongs downwards.
Large horse: Enormous energy.
New born horse: Emerging energy or new motivations.
Old or worn out horse: State of your feelings, perhaps worn out from overwork; may refer to a member of the family.
Riderless horse: Sometimes represents the death of someone, as in the following example.
Example: “I dreamed that I was awakened by the sound of a horse’s hooves in the street. I saw a white horse, with no rider, stopping at midnight in front of our house. I knew it came for my younger sister. I went to the door and opened it to call her, when suddenly I saw her coming down the stairs, all dressed in white. She did not say a word to me, but walked with stately steps down the stairs, through the hall, and out of the door. She mounted the horse and rode away. I woke up crying.” The woman’s sister died a month later.
Riding or leading horse easily: Good relationship with inner drives and emotions; the harmony between instinctive drives and personality.
Running away from a horse or horsemen: Fear of sexuality, which includes responsibility for parenthood and relationship. Fear of ones own strong desires or urges; avoiding the responsibility of directing ones own feelings and desires.
Sick or dying horse: Loss of health, energy, enthusiasm. Have a physical check.
Speaking horse: Realisation of what you are feeling but have not been aware of; expression of levels of feeling or body processes usually unconscious.
Strange or unknown horseman/woman: Message from the unconscious; a new opportunity or event.
Struggling to control the horse: Fighting with ones urges and natural drives; difficulty in controlling ones emotions or sexuality.
The mare: femininity, receptiveness, fertility or a woman.
The stallion: masculinity, power and virility or a man.
This energy wave rises, but in fulfilling itself in genital sex the wave falls again, self-awareness with it. However, if the energy is released, and yet not allowed to spill out in the full sexual release, the energy keeps on rising – flying in fact – lifting awareness with it, until it becomes a vast awareness of life and death. The white horse can have a similar meaning. For instance a woman turning her love of her children into social caring suggests a way of expression that goes beyond personal drives or the instinctive urges toward personal survival. She ‘flies up’ into a wider social context. See: Cayce, Edgar.
In mythology Pegasus was born from the blood when Perseus cut off Medusa’s head. Pegasus then lived roaming freely until Bellerophon caught him with a golden bridle given him by Athena. Bellerophon went through adventures such as the slaying of chimera with the help of Pegasus. But Bellerophon tried to ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus (Heaven) but Zeus caused Pegasus to throw him off and fall back to Earth.
However Pegasus arrived at Mount Olympus where he served Zeus. The symbolic meaning of this is that when the uncontrolled and undirected processes of thought and intellect are stilled a new level of experience or energy is released. This new way of relating to sexuality or life energy can uplift or expand consciousness to the point where we arrive at cosmic consciousness. But the old human personality cannot manage this and falls away as a new being emerges. Chimera, the destructive and illusory view of life arising from a purely sensory view of life is killed in the process. See: cosmic consciousness.
Thrown from horse: It depends on who is thrown from the horse and why. In general though it suggests that the instinctive or spontaneous life force has cast off an attitude that is restraining it, or not dealing with it well. One dreamer who saw a man thrown from a white horse realised that it showed how, “The forces of restraint, moral, sexual, worldly active that I have been imposing on myself have been thrown off.”
Tied up horse: Inhibition; need for release of feelings and allowing freedom of expression to feelings and creativity.
Training a horse: Developing new habits; directing your energies in a socially acceptable way; learning to direct sexual and emotional energy.
Uneasy on ride: being taken for a ride; feeling ones emotions or natural urges are dominating.
White horse: Changing sexual drive into love and wider awareness; a meeting with expanded awareness of yourself.
Wild horse: Undirected energy; sexuality which might not take care of personal or interpersonal needs.
Working horse: The energy or motivation needed to work; how you feel about yourself, that you are only a work-horse, or perhaps treated as such.
The astrological sign of Sagittarius is depicted by the half human half horse. Sagittarius, the Archer, is a ‘Mutable’ ‘Fire’ sign. In it the free, unrestrained activities of Aries which became ‘fixed’ qualities in Leo, now become balanced and harmonised, and work toward high aims. It is represented in the Zodiac as a Centaur-like being, half human, half animal, turning to shoot an arrow at the ‘Scorpion.’ The Sagittarian is said to have high ideals and philosophy, prophetic insight, and the power that overcomes sin and death. |
In this sign the animal nature is ruled and directed by the human spiritual nature. The symbol of Sagittarius – half beast and half man represents this new emergence. The emergence of the human out of the animal, and the different sense that human beings have of themselves. It suggests a new type of human being in fact. If we look at the Zodiac from there on – Capricorn, we have the half goat half man figure – until we arrive at Aquarius, a fully fledged human figure. The human faculty is to transcend, to make that change. To switch across seasons, physiological changes, to actually attain consciousness. This allows us to look at the seasons, to adjust to them in a completely new way than the animal.
Example: ‘As I talked to the pale golden horse it felt more and more as if I were talking to a male companion who was in union with me.’ Alison B.
Alison’s horse is obviously portraying her feelings for a man, but also that motivating and active power in herself. The dream shows how easy and integrated she is with this.
Example: I was driving along Tottenham Court Road with my wife and my youngest son. As we neared Euston Road I saw the magnificent sight of hundreds of horses coming full gallop toward me. I knew it was a great horse race – something like the Grand National. There was every sort of horse – many riderless, all surging in a mass so thick there seemed no space between them. Then we were walking in the Covent Garden area, and it was still a market. I was crying openly at the wonder of what I had seen. Edward.
Edward’s tears are because his dream brought him a glimpse of something much bigger than his own small life. He touched the amazing flow of the energy behind the human race in its infinity of forms. Perhaps just lightly he experienced cosmic consciousness, the state of awareness that transcends ones own limitations of body and mind. But the dream also has elements of the competitive drive we feel as humans, and the struggle to know where we stand in relationship with others and the mass of other people we exist within.
Idioms: Back the wrong horse; from the horse’s mouth; don’t look a gift horse in the mouth; horse sense; you can lead a horse to water; wild horses; workhorse; horsing about; getting on your high horse; eat like a horse; back the wrong horse; beating a dead horse. See: spiritual life in dreams .
Useful Questions and Hints:
What is your relationship with the horse and what does this say about how you relate to your own motivating and energising drives?
Where is the horse taking you, or where are you directing the horse – this gives you clues to your direction in life?
Is the horse decidedly male or female – if so is there a connection with how you are relating to someone or yourself?
See Talking to Inner Self – Summing Up – Techniques for Exploring your Dreams – Martial Art of the Mind
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I am so happy to have found tvis page. This is a real concern for me as I have had recurring dreams about horses for several years and they are ALL the same – horses attacking me.
I grew up around horses. My great grandmother lived in the country and always had horses. I also took lessons as a kid, and worked at a race track for 2 years. I feel like the first dream I remember happend before I worked at the track, but the next significant one I had was while I worked there. Of course I just chalked it up to the fact that I worked on the track and it really didnt prompt me to think much about it, other than it was scary (female bay horse biting me). Fast forward 10 years later -current day- and I’m to the point where I’ve had so many terrifying dreams about horses that I honestly don’t think I’d feel comfortable around one ‘in real life’. To summarize: initially, most dreams were of single horses attacking or attempting to attack me. The first time I remember dreaming of more than 1 horse involved a horse with her foal, and I dont think the mare was attacking me (I dont remember the dream having a pleasant atmosphere, but overall it wasnt scary) I can vaguely remember one dream involving 2 or 3 horses, in individual paddocks, and I was visiting them with a friend of mine (potenially pertinent detail – she is an equestrian). The atmosphere was not threatening. Most recently my dreams of horses have involved muliple horses, with usually one chasing/charging at me or multiples lunging at me to bite. I have had several dreams of being at the racetrack again, sometimes visiting, sometimes working (but not old me, current me, going back there to work. Other parts of these dreams are also recurring in horse-themed dreams so not sure if those details are pertinent.) Most of the time what is happening is I’m trying to leave the barn, but I cant because there are horses in stalls on ether side of the shed row and they are all lunging out of their gates trying to bite me, and I cant get through because the rows are too narrow (they arent that narrow in real life). The most recent dream was interesting because I was in one of the stalls I guess trying to get out of the way and suddenly there were 3 horses in there with me and 2 of them were trying to attack and bite me. It’s all quite jumbled because I think I was just waking up or something so the dream wasnt as ‘strong’ but I had the feeling that ONE of the horses was trying to help stop it in some way, or at least was not willing to participate but was srill caught up in the scuffle. I’m not sure but I could “feel” that one of them wasnt as evil as the rest.
Anyway these dreams have happen so frequently that it rrally bothers me. I always thought it was fun to look up the meaning of dreams but it was for fun. Now I find myself actually seeking help to find out, if not what it means/symbolizes, then WHY I am having these recurring and unnerving dreams. Like I said, I’m to the point now where I am kind of afraid of horses and should I have the opportunity to be near one I might avoid it. Yet I am a huge animal lover. I worked at the track after graduating, and have been working in a vet office for 10 years. And like I said I grew up around horses and ran around in fields with them.
I would never have left this comment had I not seen in the comments that some of them are responded to. I am REALLG hoping my comment will get a response because I would REALLY like someone elses insight on this. I have told many people of my dreams and how they worry me and everyone I tell says it’s very strange yet, understandably so, no one has any idea as to why Im havimg them or what they mean.
Thank you for reading. I really hope someone here has something to say about this!
Dear Vanessa – You wrote “I’m not sure but I could “feel” that one of them wasn’t as evil as the rest” and that sounds like a step in the right direction; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/evil/
What I see in your dreams is your fear for your natural impulses and emotions; for instance aggression.
Being chased by a horse signifies that you are becoming more aware of it, feeling it more intensely. So 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.
The horse race (track) may symbolise the events of everyday life, and your relationship with people; everyday competition and where you rate yourself in it.
When you learn to become aware of your repressed feelings, own them and deal with them, you are more likely to learn to deal with the attack, the criticism and malign emotions directed at you by others that are also frequently shown as an animal attacking or biting us. Sometimes we may be aware of this, but often remarks are made which we miss, yet are sensed as an attack by our unconscious.
See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/self-observation/
Your dreams suggest that you do not give your inner horses enough space/room yet and the way out of it is that for a given length of time, about 30 to 60 minutes once a week, you allow your body, feelings, voice, sexuality and mind be moved spontaneously, as happens in dreams; http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
Anna 🙂
I had this dream and it had a horse race in it and recently I’ve been having afew dreams with horses.
Well, here is my dream: I was walking to this (about) 8 foot metal rod structure with a man allowing people to participate or watch a horse race. I wanted to compete so I asked my grandmother. She said I could andI had found a check in my pocket and a screen had popped up. I was able to enter the large (don’t know exactly how much it was but it was in the hundred thousandths) amount of money to receive it. It showed me the digits and I went back to the man in the.metal structure and asked about the race. He thought I wanted to watch but I told him I wanted to compete. He told me I had to pay and that screen popped up and he took about a fourth of my money. I walked to the structure and then I was on one of the race owner’s horses. I remembered I had my own horse under the carport of my grandmother’s property. My grandmother and my little sister were taking care of the dogs in the garage (in real life they live in the garage) (it was morning in the dream) I grabbed my brown horse ( who is also in a lot of my previous dreams and had the same name in all the dreams) The horse’s name was Butterscotch. Butterscotch was my favorite horse and I was her favorite human. I rode Butterscotch to the race which was about a dozen feet away. We got into our stall and then we were all off. I was in second and a man riding a black horse was in first. The man looked back at me and Butterscotch and I knew he was our enemy. Butterscotch and I caught up and Butterscotch and the man’s horse rammed each other. Butterscotch and I were really close (not close physically, it’s more like when we know each other well and we had a special connection with each other {not love }) so Butterscotch and I were able to work together, well. After a while of ramming we made two turns and he looked back and said that his horse was a purebred and was better than Butterscotch who was a hybrid. I tried to think of a comeback and noticed he was staring at us and his horse was running sideways and not straight forward. I then said “Well, you aren’t going to stay up” his horse tripped and he and his horse crashed and were out of the race. I fell off Butterscotch but was holding on to her neck. I told her we were going to win this race. I failed trying to climb back up and another horse started catching up with us. We were about 2 dozen feet away from the finish line and the other racer caught up and I was then able to get back up on Butterscotch and got way ahead of the other racer. We crossed the finish line. The racer then threw one of my dog’s insulin shots at Butterscotch while I was still on Butterscotch. The shot missed and landed in front of Butterscotch. The racer got off and I learned thAt the racer was my sister (I don’t remember her horse’s color) My sister wasn’t supposed to be a racer and entered the race at the wrong time. The finish line was at the entrance of the carport and my sister went over to the back left of The carport. I walked over to the shot and saw Butterscotch staring at the shot and I knew she was shocked. I picked up the shot and looked at it noticing that it had insulin in it. I looked behind my sister and saw a trashcan. I was going to throw the shot away but I started thinking. I knew the shot was for my dog and knew I shouldn’t throw it away. I looked at my sister and she looked sad. I walked to her and put the shot in her left hand. I walked away with her standing there and walked to Butterscotch who had moved to the back of the carport. I looked at her and she la yes down on her side and left me give her a good belly rub and I said that my belly rubs were the best. That was the end if my dream.
I had a dream that I was pregnant with a horse baby inside me. I felt the contractions and labor pains as if it was real the horse wanted to come out but I would of died so I saw myself standing at the hospital trying to get a doctor to give me a c section.. Well I saw my mum and my grandmother at this weird place while I was still pregnant and there were all these telephones with money left in the change area I was going around taking all the money and my mum said put it back I might be cursed which caught my attention in my dream as I can wake up in my dreams so please if you can tell me exactly what my dreams mean I will be thankfull
I dreamt of a zombie apocalypse, and as myself and only some of my family were driving to try and get away to somewhere safe we passed a large field that was fenced off along a long highway and the field was full of dead horses, at least a hundred. They were white and brown, brown and pure white. It was strange and out of all the dreams I dream last night that was the one I remember clearly.
Dear Soleil – What you call “a zombie apocalypse” may reflect how (part of) you behave(s) like a zombie when the world as you know it is going to end; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/apocalypse/
Behaving like a zombie is like being driven by an old program that moves you into a certain direction without you fully being aware of it. In a sense we are all zombies, or have a part of us that is a zombie. It is because we are all programmed and what we do is not from our real selves; http://dreamhawk.com/interesting-people/animal-children/#Program
Your inner program may tell you that once “the threat” of change could push you toward growth, you get away to somewhere “safe”; safe refers to not answering your inner call to allow for growth in certain areas of yourself.
Your fears may reflect those areas where you can grow.
The large field that is fenced off could also be a symbol of something that bars your progress.
You do not describe what the field looks like. Because of the dead horses I guess that nothing grows on that field anymore either and so there was nothing to feed your inner horses.
It is a signal that what is natural in you – growth coming from your real self is natural – has died; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/growth-of-something/
Of course it is up to you to choose if this is how you want to continue to live your life or if you want to try a different approach; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dreams-growth-and-the-trackless-way/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/
Anna 🙂
In my dream I was in my elementary school and I was actually the horse, like To me I looked normal, but to others I was a horse. Then some fat guy sat on my back and I had to take him to the library.. and it hurt like it would in real life. I could barely move. And if it matters, I was brown.
Dear Hannah – Your dream may reflect a lesson that you have learned in your “elementary school of life”; it may hurt to be criticized – “to others I was a horse” – and criticizing others – “some fat guy” – is not the way to “get him off your back”.
So perhaps you feel like exploring a different approach; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/active-imagination-and-dreams/
Anna 🙂
Hello, I saw black horse with Goddess Maa Kali in dream. What is the meaning of that dream?
I have a very similar if not the same dream at random times but I remember having it since I have it pretty often. I’m riding a horse slowly thru Manhattan (I live in NYC) but it’s like my mode of transportation. I go everywhere from lunch, to Bloomingdales, to visiting friends on West End Avenue (where I don’t know anyone). I tie him up when I have to make stops and it feels very normal yet I am the only with a horse.
I forgot to ask if anyone has any feedback? Since it’s a reoccurring dream I’m so curious to know what it means!!
Dear Maya624 – Recurring dreams can arise because there is a need to learn something. Also the growth instinct is incredible powerful one and pushes us through growth, sometimes unwillingly. And if we resist it can cause recurring dreams.
What do you feel when you ride around on your horse?
Does it make you feel superior being the only person on a (high?) horse?
How do the people in your dreams respond to you?
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
Anna 🙂
Thanks very much for that interpretation Anna, very interesting 🙂
I had a dream last night that I was a horse.
I was penned up with other horses, and humans had taken my baby horse away to a barn. I turned into a human so I could climb the fence to rescue my foal, and at the same time a white horse let me ride it so we could leap over the fence and escape.
We collected my foal, as well as a dog that was being held captive, and rode away from the house, which turned out to be my childhood home.
We (human me, white horse, foal and dog) rode towards my childhood school, through a group of chickens. As we approached the school, I saw two old women dressed in old-fashioned clothes, walking into the school holding dolls that were dressed as exact replicas of themselves.
I feel like there may be some symbolism in my dream, but I have no knowledge of how to interpret it. Any help would be appreciated!
Dear Amy – Well, you could start with reading http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/shapeshifter-or-shape-shifter/ and explore what it feels like to be a horse that is pent up http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
Then you can explore what it feels like when you are the white horse and decide to “leap over the fence”. The fence could be a symbol of something which bars your progress and/or expression and it was withholding you to take care of your foal. In the context of your dream I believe that your foal could be a symbol for your inner child; http://dreamhawk.com/health-and-healing/inner-baby-and-child/
Seeing the old women with the “replica dolls” could reflect that in your “school of life” you copied their behaviour, which led to less inner freedom and enthusiasm to express who you are.
So your dream might reflect how you have imprisoned yourself as a child (foal and dog) and that the way out is to free yourself; http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-lifestream/#Open.
Anna 🙂
Hello,
I had a dream that an old horse of mine who I was very attached to was laying down over me on the ground. In the beginning of the dream I went up to pet her and she tried to bite me as I tried to back away a fell to the ground as she bit my head. I then remember covering my head in fear of being stepped on and the next thing I knew she was laying across my stomach and would not get up or move. I reached for my phone and tried to call 911 or somebody but None of the numbers would call out. As I layed there I tried to wiggle my way out from underneath her and soon I was set free. I ran to where my mom was and I told her what had happened. She then mentioned of my horse being pregnant and maybe getting ready to have her baby. All of a sudden it dawned on us that we didn’t have her anymore and she had been giving away. In my dream I cried and started to panic and search for her. What could a dream like this mean?
Need serious help with a horse dream. In the dream I was underwater, like I was in the ocean, but I was there in spirit so I was not drowning. A dead woman was swimming in front of me asking over and over “where is my child?” Her dead child was swimming behind me and try as I might to tell her, she could not hear me. I looked above and saw 6 dead horses. All missing their legs from the knee down. These horses tried to climb out of the water using odd wooden ladders, but could not get above water due to the missing parts of their legs. This dream happened over a month ago and is haunting me terribly. Most recently my health has been failing. I’m now on crutches among other things. I am so scared I’m going to die. What do these horses symbolize??? I desperately need answers. Thank you.
Dear T Wells – Tony and I have explored your dream and what Tony felt as well is that there are questions we would like to ask you, in order to get a better understanding of what is expressed in the inner world of your dream.
So we would like to invite you to join the Forum on this website (it is all for free), where Tony can start a dialogue with you; http://dreamhawk.com/forums/
Anna 🙂
Thank you Anna. I have since had another horse dream equally disturbing. I joined the forum as you suggested. I will start a topic there on horses in the dream questions section. I really appreciate your help.
In the beginning I drempt of my mother often, since her rather sudden passing in 2014. She and I were worst enemies and best friends. An almost co-dependant relationship we had. I feel lost and alone without her.. Recently I drempt I was standing on the edge of a rocky cliff in an unfamiliar place, gazing down at TWO magnificant horses galloping freely along a sandy seashore below. Amazed at their size, beauty, and obvious strength. I stood in silent awe, mesmerized at how each muscle flexed and glistened in the setting sun, as they ran back and forth and in and out of the ocean. Waves crashed against the rocks around them as they playfully changed directions. Unknown whether they were stallion, mare, or one of each. (Tho I felt the dark one was stallion.) One light dappled, the other deep chestnut. Both equally as wise and mysterious. It then occurs to me there is no way out. No opening or space for them to break free from this strip of beach. My thoughts instantly take a dramatic turn from a deep seeded feeling of peace and tranquility, to worry and concern.. A phone begins to ring and I turn to run and answer it. I didn’t know where I was, still somehow I KNEW it was ringing for me. Behind me was a hill with a narrow path of sand and gravel leading all the way up to an open driveway and a large, old Victorian style, house. I ran inside to locate and answer the phone. I picked up.. “Hello…” .. A voice answered back, sounding happy to hear my own. “Hi, baby girl! So what do you think? Do you love it?”. It was my mother calling. Yes I love it! He’s beautiful. “My gift to you. He is beautiful, isn’t he?” She said. “I can’t talk long this time, I love you. Goodbye.” … I hung up the phone and found my way back outside. I stood watching with love just a while longer. No longer thinking they were trapped. Also now only seeing the one deep chestnut horse. The other was gone and somehow I knew without it being said that only the one dark horse was my gift. And I woke up..
Dear Jacquelyn Gale – A very interesting dream and thank you for expressing so well what you think and feel in your dream.
What I see in the way you express your dream – and please explore it yourself as well http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/ – is that you become aware what is part of your inner world; “Amazed at their size, beauty, and obvious strength.” and “Both equally as wise and mysterious.”
That does not feel like “I feel lost and alone without her.”, does it?
Your dream starts with standing “on the edge” of this new realisation about yourself. You become aware of what you have received from your mother and because of the large, old Victorian style house in your dream probably also from “the long past”; http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/ancestors/
You wrote; “. It then occurs to me there is no way out. No opening or space for them to break free from this strip of beach. My thoughts instantly take a dramatic turn from a deep seeded feeling of peace and tranquillity, to worry and concern.”
It shows how you become aware that you create your inner world of feelings with your thoughts; http://dreamhawk.com/news/avoiding-being-my-own-victim/
Our ideas, thoughts and beliefs are the main builders, and it is a world we then live in. We build an inner world that few people realise they have, and that inner world constantly controls how they relate to and deal with the outer world, the people, animals and events we meet. Unfortunately we often build a terrible world inside us, and this leads to sickness, despair and depression.
At this point of “feeling low again” you become aware of “someone or something” trying to connect with you and it takes you some effort to “go uphill” and answer the call;
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dead-communicating-with/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/mother-mum-ma/#InnerMother
Connecting with your (inner) mother also enables you to move from feeling worried and concerned to feeling love and feeling free again.
A beautiful gift too.
Perhaps you feel like “Being the one deep chestnut horse” (too)? http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
Anna 🙂
I was with other people. don’t know where, looking around (not actually walking around). a man asks what I’m looking for, and I tell him I’m looking for a black horse. It finally shows up, being pitch black. I’m standing higher than the others, like as if on a porch.
Thank you very much for this, as it was very informative. I had a dream (last night) that was all about me going on a long horseback ride with a horse (that was mine in the dream, even though I do not really own a horse in real life). We were going on a random trip (to a real place) that would like me 8 and half hours. The horse listened to me so well, and I was even able to fall asleep on the horse, and the horse just continued on the way. It was a really magical dream, and I knew it was a good meaning, and a good sign. Your website help me know that, yes it is definetly similar to what you say. So thanks 🙂
I reread that and realized it didn’t make since. The trip would have taken 8 and a 1/2 hours in a car, but on horse back it should have taken me longer (even though it didn’t).
In my dream i was falling from heaven and straight to hell when i got there i saw the fire and i was walking next to it and all off a sudden this winged white horse flew down and carried me out of hell help?
Hi,
In my dream I was at my old school which had a massive field with a metal fence all the way around it. At the top end was a big woods. I would walk it daily and go through a hole in the fence through the woods to get home.
In my dream it was night time and ahead of me I could hear some girls screaming and when I looked ahead I could see a Massive black horse with a big man riding it. He was dressed in all black with a black cape. He had a massive bull dog and two smaller dogs with him. Again the dogs were black. The girls escaped him by going through the hole in the fence. Then the big black dog saw me and ran towards me with the horse and rider behind it. I didn’t feel scared by this and the dogs and the rider had somehow got past me. He then stopped his horse and we both looked at each other. He was dressed all in black and his face was covered by a black bandage so I couldn’t see any features!!! He the just turned around a rode off. Not sure what this was all about can you explain?
Thanks