Bad Dog, Mad Bull, and the Broken Fence
This dream was quite short, but it was very vivid, detailed, and bursting at the mystical seams with symbolism... put your seatbelt on.
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Dream:
I find myself on a modest bicycle riding along a rural road. I am very familiar with this stretch of road, two miles down is the house I grew up in: my home. The sky is overcast, but not dark. As I began to approach the intersection toward the end of the first mile, I saw a bull and a black dog up ahead in a field. Both of them seemed more than agitated. Something told me that I was in danger. Suddenly at the corner of the intersection closest to me, there was a brown horse kicking at the corner post of the fence, trying to break it down with his front hooves. It seemed as if he was trying to push through in order to get out and help me somehow.
I stop at the intersection and look ahead, the road seems to get as narrow as a sidewalk up ahead, with fences on each edge. [Might I be the one fenced in or the animals?] There isn't any other human traffic in sight, so I resume pedaling the bike, which I forgot to take out of high gear. It was a wobbly start through the intersection, yet for some reason I still did not shift into first gear. The dog came through the fence and was snarling at me as he ran back and forth, mostly taunting and intimidating me. Up ahead the bull smashed through the fence and was on the narrowing road. That was the moment that I decided to turn around, which meant that I would have to pick up the bike to get it to face the way I came from.
The dog jumped onto the fence with his front paws had a green and blue ball in his mouth, and was threatening to play with me. I was wondering how it was possible for a dog to have such a twisted personality like that. I grabbed the soggy ball he was offering me but he would not let go of it, so I smacked him on the snout and was about to pedal away when the bull charged the fence again, and the entire row leaned into the road all the way back to the intersection. The wooden fence had a line of barbedwire at the top, so I grabbed it to pull myself faster since I still hadn't downshifted the bicycle. The bull was running along the inside of the fence again, parallel to me and the dog had run diagonally away from where I was. I rode through the intersection, mostly coasting from pulling myself along the tipping fence. The horse is gone, but fortunately, I am not pursued by the dog or the bull.
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I was wondering if the animals in the dream represented parts of myself. If the horse, bull, and dog represented different aspects of agression or something. The fence could either represent something that is an obstacle, if so, an obstacle for my agression... or it could represent a protection of outside influences, one that fails in this dream, except for the horse trying to break through. This dream took place only a quarter of a mile from the location of my dream about the car on autopilot and where I saw the friendly fox.
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Dream:
I find myself on a modest bicycle riding along a rural road. I am very familiar with this stretch of road, two miles down is the house I grew up in: my home. The sky is overcast, but not dark. As I began to approach the intersection toward the end of the first mile, I saw a bull and a black dog up ahead in a field. Both of them seemed more than agitated. Something told me that I was in danger. Suddenly at the corner of the intersection closest to me, there was a brown horse kicking at the corner post of the fence, trying to break it down with his front hooves. It seemed as if he was trying to push through in order to get out and help me somehow.
I stop at the intersection and look ahead, the road seems to get as narrow as a sidewalk up ahead, with fences on each edge. [Might I be the one fenced in or the animals?] There isn't any other human traffic in sight, so I resume pedaling the bike, which I forgot to take out of high gear. It was a wobbly start through the intersection, yet for some reason I still did not shift into first gear. The dog came through the fence and was snarling at me as he ran back and forth, mostly taunting and intimidating me. Up ahead the bull smashed through the fence and was on the narrowing road. That was the moment that I decided to turn around, which meant that I would have to pick up the bike to get it to face the way I came from.
The dog jumped onto the fence with his front paws had a green and blue ball in his mouth, and was threatening to play with me. I was wondering how it was possible for a dog to have such a twisted personality like that. I grabbed the soggy ball he was offering me but he would not let go of it, so I smacked him on the snout and was about to pedal away when the bull charged the fence again, and the entire row leaned into the road all the way back to the intersection. The wooden fence had a line of barbedwire at the top, so I grabbed it to pull myself faster since I still hadn't downshifted the bicycle. The bull was running along the inside of the fence again, parallel to me and the dog had run diagonally away from where I was. I rode through the intersection, mostly coasting from pulling myself along the tipping fence. The horse is gone, but fortunately, I am not pursued by the dog or the bull.
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I was wondering if the animals in the dream represented parts of myself. If the horse, bull, and dog represented different aspects of agression or something. The fence could either represent something that is an obstacle, if so, an obstacle for my agression... or it could represent a protection of outside influences, one that fails in this dream, except for the horse trying to break through. This dream took place only a quarter of a mile from the location of my dream about the car on autopilot and where I saw the friendly fox.
posted by John Martens at 8:26 AM
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