Lynne – As you wrote, the dream speaks for itself.
The house you grew up in represents in dreams the memories you hold for that period of your life.
The pterodactyl and the man commenting on it are, I feel, things ‘experts’ and people have said about such creatures. But a large part of it is your imagination, because as you said, “.. a very different looking in the dream than real ones.”
At that period of your life maybe you felt your difficult emotions would ‘devour’ you or that you wouldn’t survive them. I wonder why it was a flying creature rather than a dinosaur. Maybe you could find out by being it -
https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson Running away in fear was most likely a memory replay; the fear was partly your mother’s that you picked up from her. But the pterodactyl is a very deep part of you. Your present personality and body has arisen from processes and experiences that are millions of years old. The dinosaur or a prehistoric animal often represents your sense of this primordial past out of which your present self has grown. The dinosaur can also depict deeply instinctive urges, or your feelings about being a devouring monster.
No plant or creature grows from a dead seed, and each living seed carries within it all the past gathered from all its forebears. So, the seed in your mother’s womb is as old as and even older than human kind, and you carry that wisdom or memories in you. But in this life you developed a new brain, and the memories you gathered this time are what you built your personality from, but beneath that is a very ancient self. To reach it see
https://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/ Your speaking ancient creature occurs often in people’s dreams.
Example: I was walking past a large building site which had been excavated for foundations. Rain had filled the excavated pits and a large lake had formed. As I walked past I could see ancient primitive creatures rising out of the water. One of them, a large dinosaur, came toward me. I was scared and ran away. The dinosaur followed and started speaking to me. I couldn’t understand what it said. Don.
Don explored his dream and says – I realised that through my internal digging into myself I had uncovered some feelings I had never met consciously before. This was about anxiety, which I had suffered from a lot, and about the anger I felt toward my step children for not appreciating the work I was putting into building them a home and working to provide. Seeing these things helped me understand what was behind my difficult feelings and fears. For instance I saw that fear is fundamental to all human experience, and I needed to meet it and help it to enter into the modern world instead of be repressed and remain primitive.
So understand that your fear was a natural reaction to your past experiences. But as humans we can slowly bring those ancient reactions into our present life and change them. See
https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/ -
It is often so obvious that as a person we have no real awareness that we are a mammal. As such because we do not understand the animal needs we are often either in conflict with it, do not care for it, or are overwhelmed by it and express it in sick ways. As a society we have many unnatural ways of expressing our sexual needs because they have become twisted. But also we fail to see that as a human we are riding an ancient beast – our body. If we were caring for a horse for instance we would feed it with healthy food, allow it a normal sexual outlet, and exercise it. We would not constantly give it alcohol, allow it to smoke or give it highly refined or factory foods such a white flour, sugar and white rice, and carbonated drinks. Recent research has shown that these produce a higher incidence of illness in humans. See
https://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/conditioned-unconditoned-reflexes-or-responses/ Tony