Chris - Well, it seems that you look for an answer to your father - your inner influence of you father - and cannot get an answer.
Then you go in search of your son - something that is vitally important to you and you have given a lot of time and energy to caring for a vulnerable part.
Using you own initiative you go out into the street, suggesting you open yourself to new impressions and experiences, whatever they will be. In fact this puts you in contact with what you were looking for, although you have feelings that seem dirty, and yet there is your answer.
We are back then with your previous dream of something bigger. What you find is a being that is not any one
thing - very true. Your answer is a mixture of animals, of human types, perhaps a little alien - again, very true.
We are made up of strange bits and pieces of different eras, of different needs.
Tony