Hello again,
Thank you for your help with my last dream. Can you help me again?
This time I dreamt that I was setting off on a hike with a group of people, possibly including my husband. But then I realised, as we were having breakfast in a hotel, that I hadn't prepared any food to bring along with me, so I took some time to get some things from the breakfast buffet and put them in my backpack. But my delay meant that everyone left without me. When I realised this, I was scared. How am I going to find my way on my own, I thought? But then I set off walking and, much to my satisfaction, realised I was perfectly capable of finding my way alone. Along the way I passed some odd characters--men on horseback. Some were entirely covered (them and the horse) in an elaborately embroidered golden cover, others were actually riding half-horses (as if the horse had been cut in half from head to tail leaving one front leg and one hind leg), and others were riding on headless horses. In any case, none of the men on horseback bothered me, and I managed to find my way. And when I got to the bottom I rejoined one of the guys from my group, and it felt nice, like we were going to be together as boyfriend and girlfriend or something (oddly though, he didn't look like my husband), and then we both went swimming in a pool, which seemed like a nice, happy thing to do.
I think this dream has something to do with what's going on in my life at the moment, and I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on it. At the moment, I am imposing huge boundaries with my abusive, sociopathic parents who have hurt me again and again and continue to do it at any chance they have, but always deny everything. So I think in my dream I was afraid of walking along the path alone and not being able to find my way because in my waking life I'm scared of facing life alone. The fact that my husband was among the people who left me alone reflects my fear that my parents will turn him against me too, like they've tried to do with everyone over whom they have influence, and he will leave me. And I understand that my dream is telling me I can find my way in life even if I'm alone. But what I don't understand is what the men on horseback represent. Maybe these are my parents, who seem forbidding but on closer inspection are not as powerful as they seem, or are cloaked (not what they seem). And I also don't understand what it means that at the end I feel happy to meet up with one of the guys from the group that had left me behind and that we're going to be together. Why do you think he looked different from my husband? Do you think this means my dream is telling me my husband will leave me but I'll eventually meet someone else?