This dream shows that you need protection in some way, in that you need to protect someone or someone is protecting you. It can also signify faith and companionship. If you have owned the dog previously, then this means you are missing something or someone in your life - time to relax and take it easy.
A dog that is guarding gates or being near to something that is spiritual means that you need to guard yourself against something.
A dog that is out of control shows that you can find the answers to secrets in meditation. Sometimes a dog featured in your dreams can be very helpful in gaining insight into our personality- into our psyche. A dream about a dog deals with powerful emotions and are usually indicative of "important" issues in our lives. If the dog was wild then this demonstrates our deepest desire to be wild and care free.
When investigating our animals in dreams, it is important to recall as many aspects of the dream as possible. Here are somethings to keep in mind as you consider your animals in dreams:
- Is the dog wild or tame?
- Has the dog been neglected or healthy?
- What is the environment that the dog is living in?
- Do you interact with the dog or do you see it from a distance?
- Where does the dog come from?
- Is the dog domesticated?
- Is the animal scarey?
The connection with the above emotions in your dream will provide you with enough information to be able to interpret this dream. Dogs can be found in cross-cultural mythologies, throughout history, and most of us have encountered them for better or for worse in our waking lives. People often describe themselves as a 'dog person' when they prefer the company of this animal. Given their commonplace appearance in waking life, it is not surprising that dogs are also one of the most frequent animal stars in dreams.
To interpret the dog symbol we need to look at some of the ancient mythology and how this connects with our dream.
Firstly, a black dog is the name given to a creature found in the United Kingdom, it is of nocturnal apparitation and is connected with evil and death. This dog is normally associated with storms and bad weather. If we look at Greek mythology, orion is the great hunter, who had a dog named Sirius. The star, called sirius is the brightest star in the night-time sky with a visual apparent magnitude of -1.47. Sirius is also known colloquially as the dog star. It is impossible to ascertain whether the creature originated in your dream is connected to any of these mysthological dogs. For centuries, residents of England have seen a large black dog with malevolent flaming eyes -- the eyes are read or green and this dog is known as being shaggy or hairy. In mexico there are old tales of two types of dogs, one white and one black called cadejo and the evil one is know as black cadejo.
These dogs are spirits of good and bad and signtings were in the night when the mexican's travelled. The omen was suppose to be protecting them from their travels. In Greek mythology, Orthrus was a two-headed dog.
Dogs that have appeared in mythology are connected to our dreams. It can be determined that if you deam of any of the dogs above it may be connected to friendship. Dogs may also be sent to us in the night for guidence. Was the dog trying to tell you something? Dogs are connected to our psychic attributes, they have the ability to see things we don't - such as ghosts and other energy forces.
If it is a domestic dog then this signifies happiness. If this relates to a wild dog then this dream can mean that there are a number of difficulties. When we need to have some type of misunderstanding in our lives then we are likely to dream about animals.
From this dream it is clear that you have found that you are needing some type of guidance in your life. This dream suggests some type of journey - most likely on a spiritual level. In shamanism they know that everyone has an animal spirit guide and that this guide can help us shape our lives with wise common knowledge.
Therefore, it is important to consider if you feel (based on the details within your dream) whether this animal was sent to tell you something, guide you or give you some type of advice.
Unlike cats which are associated to a female presence, dogs are focused towards masculinity. A dog's color is also of importance. Colors often appear randomly with other dream meanings and can provide important information as to what the dream is attempting to communicate.
It is not uncommon that out of some long, complicated and intricate dream one specially lucid part stands out containing unmistakably the realization of a message, this may not be apparent to you. It is astonishing to discover that dogs generally
According to Freud dreams of "saving" are connected with parturition dreams. To save, especially to save someone from a dog, is equivalent to giving birth when dreamed by a woman; this sense is, however, modified when the dreamer is a man.
Dogs, scary animals and ghosts, of which we are afraid before going to bed, and which occasionally even disturb our sleep, originate in one and the same childish reminiscence.
When one has become familiar with the abundant use of symbolism for the representation of dogs in dreams, you can naturally raise the question whether there are not many dog symbols which appear more than once. In this connection it may be remarked that this symbolism does not belong peculiarly to the dream, but rather to unconscious thinking, particularly that of needing friendship, and it is to be found in greater perfection in the folklore, in the myths, legends, and manners of speech, in the proverbial sayings.
