Dog magnet

the Stuff Dreams are made of...
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moved from dream diary forum :moogle:

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
This is just a post about something that used to happen to me all the time, plaguing my sleep and wrecking many good dreams.

While dreaming I was attacked by dogs constantly, and the painful thing was, it was my fault. For example, I’d be walking on the street with someone, and then I’d notice a dog. Immediately I’d think “Crap, a dog, oh no, he’s going to bite me” and then it would run up and start gnawing on my leg, creating a really unpleasant tingling and forcing me to wake myself up. I think it may have stemmed from my fear of dogs, which I still have. The worst thing was the fear of thinking about them, while dreaming. It was like a battle between me and my mind which would cause the attacks.

In recent years this has stopped in frequency but will occur randomly about the place. I don’t know why it stopped as I’m still pretty scared of large dogs. Has this happened to anyone else?

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:wolfbite:
Hmmm… not really. I never have nightmeres! :tongue: I used to have them when I was little so I wrote them down and after a while they stopped…

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Not all dogs are that bad!!

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For several years I had a recurring nightmare of being chased by a large dog.

Sometimes I would fly away. Sometimes I could only hover 5 feet off the ground and the dog would be jumping up trying to bite onto my leg. :cool_laugh:

I followed some advice by LaBerge - creatures in dreams are part of us. The part we reject becomes a monster.

So I had to accept that the ferocious dog symbolized some aspect of me. I visualized the dog in a large cage and I imagined talking to it, saying what are you? what do you want?

On one side the dog was about my anger and attacking people when frightened. (My attacks were verbal - kind of like a barking :neutral: ) On the other side part of the dog symbolized guarding. Accepting that I needed to protect part of myself.

The nightmares have ended.

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I haven’t had nightmares since I was 7!! :tongue:
It’s really weird. When a monster is chasing me I just fight it back and have fun doing it too! :grin: