[musicflows]

I've have this recurring dream since I was about 15 (I'm 20 now). I have it at least once every couple months.

In the beginning I'm always in a museum or at school with one or two other people that I know (always varies on who they are). We're just hanging and chatting and I'm getting increasingly uncomfortable. I make an excuse that I have to leave and say goodbye and then I walk toward the exit.

I open the door to leave and walk into another completely unrelated room. I try a door in that room and I'm going from room to room trying to get outside. I'll be in my grandma's house in New Mexico one minute and my church back home next and then I'll be in a building I don't recognize and then a concert hall at my high school--all randomly and varying in each dream.

I can't seem to get out and I'm becoming increasingly panicky and now I'm running from room to room throwing open doors. I hear something behind me and I turn and see there's a pack of wolves after me.

I freeze then and the wolves surround me. They get bigger and bigger until they're towering over me and then they turn into things and people as random as the rooms I've just been through. They all start making a whole bunch of terrible noise--talking at once and playing music and growling and howling and banging on things. I can't do anything but curl up in a ball on the floor and cover my eyes praying they will go away. Just at the point where I can't stand it anymore, I wake up in a cold sweat.

I usually don't go back to sleep on those nights.

I do still suffer "monster under the bed syndrome" from when I was a kid but for me it's always been wolves. I can't get up at night to go to the kitchen or bathroom because I always sense them trotting along behind me, hunting me down. It's funny because I love wolves as animals. They are amazing creatures and I'm an advocate for them. I live in Wyoming where there's the whole Yellowstone controversy and I'm totally on the wolves' side so it can't be the animals themselves. There's a deeper fear, I think.

Anyway, if you have any thoughts or ideas, please share. Thanks!

[Thunder Bow]

You are probably remembering a situation you grew up in, where those around you, were behaving in the exact same way. The wolves are those people, you seem to have some fear of them.