[greywolf2]

I find wolves beautiful to look at and they are strong. They bring peace to me when I look at my wall that I have plastered with them. I had a dream the other night that was scary because i was a young girl in my dream living at home and I went outside at night and when I looked up near the woods there were these glowing eyes looking at me and I was scared to death. I don't want to be scared of them so I'm hoping if i dream of them again I can react different. I think there is some connection with my dream and therapy I just haven't figured the connection out yet.

[Perna]

Hi, greywolf; I understand your affinity with wolves; I have one with bears, once dreamed I was a bear!

I dreamed about wolves when I was in therapy, one dream was I was in bed, in the woods/kind of a cabin one might imagine from Doctor Zhivago, Russia, a fairy tale? My uncle was involved; don't remember if he was in bed with me or standing at the foot and "lecturing" me or something but the door opened and wolves came in and my uncle did nothing to "save" me from them. Might have been another man come in or my uncle might have brought the wolves; it was nearly 20 years ago I had the dream.

From that, I figured, the dream might have had to do with the fact that that uncle was my father's brother and my father had remarried when I was young and I was dealing with my dead mother and abusive stepmother issues in therapy at the time; it could have had to do with something in me feeling my father hadn't "protected" me from my stepmother or something? That uncle was my "favorite" at the time and I had been told I looked like him (he said I looked like my mother, whom I don't remember). I knew my uncle didn't really like my stepmother and the whole family/non-family and protection from outsiders a child expects, etc. was probably in that dream. I "merged" my mother and stepmother together, because I was so young when I lost my mother and my father remarried and was so ready for a new mother figure. I was working in therapy on separating out the two. I had a couple of dreams with that uncle in them and think he represented my "past" and how things were before my stepmother. As you can imagine, my father couldn't represent that because he was also my present/future, had come forward with me into "now" and had had both women as wives.

I would look and see if maybe, since you were a young girl in your dreams whether the wolves might represent something about your father or if "glowing eyes" might have to do with your therapist (male or female?) and their gaze/looking at one and being so intent in their focus? Maybe you feel your therapist is digging too deep into your childhood or you are afraid of what s/he will find, what is there?