TealOrca,
Good insight! Thank you!

I'm sorry, I left out the most important part of the dream (just read over it). The name Saint Agostino. I'd never heard of the guy before, but that name kept ringing in my head even when I woke up. It doesn't really have much affect on the input you gave though, so I'm not that worried. (side note: I looked him up, and he's a minor catholic saint of i don't know what?)

Anyway, I know what you mean about animals meaning different things. I don't like doing dream interpretation from a book, I feel it doesn't quite line up.

I'm religious, but don't have any specific group I follow. Though I hate to admit it, my religious side has been a bit rocky lately. The fall I think might represent that now that I think of it. I use to be Christian, but found peace in a middle ground between a lot of different faiths. I still have a draw to churches though.

That makes sense for not being able to speak. Especially in my own defense. Yeah, there is a situation I'm in where I'm in it, but can't do more than just sit back and wait for a decision to be made about me. It's really annoying, although I thought I'd come to terms about it by just walking away.

The animal interpretation for me would be a raven = death, the lady death, but not necessarily a bad sign. Death isn't always a bad thing. A swan (plain ordinary white swan) to me represents grace and beauty but of a very human kind. Though when it turns black, I don't know. In the dream I knew it was a demon of some sort, or the embodiment of ill intent. It was definitely trying to kill me. Though my waking mind goes back to the time I was with a friend, and he got attacked by a swan protecting her young. I guess a black swan would be a poisoned kind of grace and beauty?

Thanks for the insight! I'm still open to other opinions, and I'm trying to figure out if it is a warning or something. I believe in messages that come in forms of dreams, though I didn't ever think I would get one. Maybe it's nothing, but it's something I can't quite shake.

KLove