Hey Chad, After reading the details of your dream I am reminded of a very vivid dream I had several years ago. I can still see the images as clearly today as I first saw the dream then. It took me awhile, but I think I deciphered it, but first my dream:

I was standing in the middle of red rocky desert valley surronded by mountains. No one and no life was around. There was a raised road ahead of me running horizontal east to west. Suddenly on this dusty road a very large black wolf appeared from the west and was dragging something, dragging fabric... dragging an elderly lady with long white hair and she was wearing a long white night gown. He was dragging her by her neck. The wolf stopped a few metres ahead of me and released the woman. The wolf looked up and over to me for a long moment and then back to the woman. The lady was smiling up at the wolf with intense love in her eyes, reaching her arm up to the wolf's face. She seemed to accept and welcome the wolf as he bite down on her throat and killed her. She remained smiling and the wolf continued to drag her past me down the dusty road....

This dream troubled me for some time and one day it hit me. The old woman was me the old me that I was growing away/out of and the wolf was also me, the new me, the new person I was becoming. I was going through some pretty heavy changes at this point in time, for the better and I believe I was trying to tell myself something about me. Perhaps that it is ok to let go and embrace my new self that I was changing into even if it is a scary and newer concept of me.

I hope this makes sense and helps you somehow with your troubling dream.

Cher