Dear Sol – This dream has so much information and encouragement in it I will have to suggest several links to really give you enough insights.
First of all, you are remarkable, because most people give up at the first difficulty that Life throws at them; and you are a true heroine of the Life Path. Life gives us difficulties as a way of clearing out the things, mistakes, errors we make in the past – or even in our babyhood. Yes, we can make errors while a baby.
So, your dream dragon, like all dream images is a way of indicating something that is at the very foundation, the core of you. It is the creative force, or energy that not only formed your body, but is Life itself – your Life.
Take time to think about this. You are a life form, and life forms exist because at the very start of being a life form, it is the creation of the universe that leads to your being. So that immense event is behind everything that exist, and like any life form, a tree for instance, it cannot exist without its connection with everything else. The tree needs the sun, and the earth, which is the dead bodies of past lives; it needs the bacteria at its roots to transform minerals.
But all that comes about because of the immense forces which are behind everything. Things like the forces that cause seasons on Earth, keeps it circling our sun, keeps our solar system moving at tremendous speed around the Milky Way galaxy of which we are a minuscule yet important part. And you are part of and formed by all of that. All that is in the symbol of your dragon - immense, powerful. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/energy-sex-and-dreams/ -
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/big-bang-and-god-are-the-same/ In your dream, you not only faced the many difficult periods of your life, but in some way, you managed not to let go of the certainty that life was basically a gift. And in the end, you broke through to the very essence of your life; it is when we let go of everything that we manage that and experience bliss. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/mountain-path/ But Dream images are like icons on a computer screen - you have to ‘click’ on your dream images to make them come alive. Thinking about them doesn’t work. You need to open yourself to the magic of them. To make them into the wonderful gateways they are you may have to learn certain skills. And what’s in it for you? Well, there are ways, here are some suggestions -
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson -
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/ -
http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/Tony