Sometimes a dream is telling us that we’re ready to do the thing we think we cannot do.
I recently dreamed about my dog Annie, who is no longer alive. She’s appeared in a lot of dreams lately.
In the most recent one, I dreamed she was sitting on my knees biting another dog. My ex was nearby. Dreaming of my ex (or anyone from the past) means I’m repeating an old pattern somewhere in my waking life.
Dogs biting, or being vicious, represents a number of things but the meaning that resonated with me was distrust. One thing that a dog symbolizes in a dream is loyalty, so if dogs are vicious, the trust is turned to distrust.
Also, the fact that it was my dog from the past (who is no longer alive) again pointed toward an old pattern from my past.
The fact that Annie was in my lap (the other dog was not) symbolized my caring and supportive nature.
At first, I thought the dream was telling me I was not trusting someone or people in general. But that’s not a pattern from my past. In my past, I’ve been almost overly trusting of other people.
So I looked at what was going on in my waking life to figure out where I was not trusting. And I noticed something.
I’ve been getting a lot of messages and encouragement to trust myself.
The old pattern around distrust was that I traditionally did not trust myself.
The dream was showing me I was ready to trust myself. It wasn’t just my subconscious saying, “hey, Caryn, trust yourself.” Sure, I’m already being told that.
I’m learning that our subconscious shows us where we’re blocked.
But it also shows us what our strengths are. What we can do, maybe something we didn’t think we could.
Annie was in my lap, which symbolized my caring nature. For me, it’s saying I can trust myself to care for myself.
In my dream, even though the dogs were biting each other, I was calm. I wasn’t upset about it. And the dream had a pleasant feeling about it. This is another reason I interpret it as a reassurance.
So really, it’s not just telling me to trust myself. It’s reassuring me that I’m ready to do so now. I’m ready to trust myself. It’s even helping me trust myself. And on a deeper level, it’s also getting the ball rolling. Because it’s a part of myself that is telling me that I can trust myself now.
It’s a little meta if you think too hard about it.
For me, trusting and not trusting is a very old pattern that has shown itself in so many areas of my life. It’s like a life theme. It comes up over and over in nearly every relationship and situation for me.
Do you have any of those issues that keep circulating through your life? If you listen, your subconscious might be able to help you with it.
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