White Dog

[Yoma]

Hello Tony,

I was at an outdoor workshop for architecture students. Imagine it as a small wood shack in the woods with regular tables and chairs,1 for each student. I was working a project by the hand and admiring the view. But i have to describe the scenery first. Sitting on that chair,i was close to a wall. Lookin in the right direction,i saw the wall; looking in the left direction, i could see a beautiful sunset over a hill,eclipsing the town i could barely see over the hill (from my position). I could say i was sitting in some kind of valley. Looking upfront, i could see the rest of the greenery,with its hills and trees and lots of people havin fun. At some point i felt the urge to run to the other side of the hill (where "another" forest started to sprout) and i just did it. Running back i got chased by i white dog that emerged from the forest. While running,i tought he just wanted to run along with me and play but when i reached back at the workshop,he bit my right hand and stood there for like 30 seconds (no pain involved). I was trying to open his mouth with my left hand but he was squeezing too hard. There were 2 men standing there and looking at me struggle and i got mad at them for not helping me out. They helped me after i nicely asked and the dog left after that. The weird thing, he left me with a circular mark of teeth. Like,a perfect circle. My mom appeared from somewhere,worried alot. I started explaining her its no big deal,there's no pain and "afterall, i grew up in this place". Those exact words keep appearing in my mind. Its kind of true,the scenery and the town are very similar to my home town. And while i was a kid i used to walk around that forest everyday with my friends. But never have i encountered "danger" coming from a white dog. And there is no workshop or a hill that eclipses the town.

[Tony Crisp]

Hi Yoma – I don’t get the feeling that you encountered ‘danger’. I say this for several reasons, first because I have two similar dreams – “My dog tramp took my right hand firmly in his mouth and led me very purposefully.” Secondly the dog left a circle mark on your hand; and thirdly because the dog was white and met you in the forest.

They are all positive symbols in your dream - White animals: Urges and sexuality that have been accepted or integrated with conscious activities. This means urges that at one time you were in conflict with or anxious about, and have been transformed in urges and feelings that are acceptable parts of your present life. They become available and creative energy.

Forest - If you are in or exploring the forest it shows you becoming aware of the level of yourself that is usually drowned out by your daily life or civilized activities. You will be more aware of meeting your internal animals. This is the country of dreams and the unconscious. In the forest you are in touch with the forces and wisdom of Life.

Circle - Completeness, wholeness, all of the parts of our being, body, soul, spirit. It also represents the universe as a whole, harmony, symmetry. Sometimes symbolises an enclosure or restraining influence, or protection, and stands for the womb, or female sexual organs. May also represent emptiness, receptiveness, or a fertile condition.

You start the dream in nature, in a workshop for architecture - Here is the image of the process or function in us that plans, that designs in a creative and perhaps considering way. It may be about plans for a better or different living condition, or about business or even a relationship. The architect is also pointing to a process of checking and directing progress.

In all it is a very positive dream, in which your socialised natural urges impresses on your hand how you express yourself in action or relationships; your grasp of life, of ideas, of opportunities, and it shows that your efforts are or will be made whole.

But your mum is the anxious worried you, the attitudes you probably gained through being raised be her. You learned to counter this influence because your childhood was one that was full of nature and living – the forest where you meet your internal animals. See https://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/animals/

Tony