The blue dog was the state of my relationship (hence the bedroom scenario) where one was content with it (he) but the other was not (me). Playing games and thinking the other will be there regardless is very foolish on their part.
I think my family lack integrity and values, and do not wish me well… of which I have already experienced many a time, so what to do…
Indeed pretending Arc… ignorance is bliss, and my words rained down on deaf ears, and who likes being ignored 
The bird/family scenario has plenty of significance Arc, but maybe it’s something I just have to come to terms with… hence the in-your-face obviousness of it.
My nightmares are not wonderful at all Arc… hence my usage of a night lamp and dreamcatcher combo to keep them at bay, otherwise they strangle me in the formless darkness of the night.
Perhaps Sil has found his calling, with such an imaginative mind as that.
Dream interpretation books, which you can probably buy at the check out counter of your local grocery store, are pure fiction. To interpret your dream, you need to try to recall what emotion acccompanied what event. IMHO, dreams act to throw out the garbage in your mind so as to refresh it for another day’s barrage of sights and sounds. As you dream certain neurotransmitters that allow logic are shut down. Your brain tries to make sense of this mayhem, so it renders the most plausible story of what you are experiencing.
True Ierr… once I’d posted my dream I could see that the dog/mirror scenario was my relationship as it had been… things have moved on satisfactorily for some months now, and I’ve always been dissatisfied with my family’s intentions towards me… hence my exacerbation with them, and those two in particular.
We got the wrong dream interpretation, FC…
I’m sure you’re as sad as I am.
I’m inspired to cause more dreams of this nature.
No Magsjy, nightmares are not wonderful. I have my share of them sometimes. The last one I had was of my daughter falling off a boat into the ocean. Just as I jumped in after her, I woke up. I kept saying thank god, thank god - 
some agnostic I am. Then I sighed in relief and had to convince myself that it was only a dream by repeating that a few times.
Some dreams are easier to interpret than others if we know what it is going on in our lives. I don’t necessarily think that dreaming of this or that specifically as is written in dream interpretion books is right on - the human psyche is much more complicated than that but I do realize that material in the dream has to deciphered from the symbols and metaphors in them.
The experts also say that we have to face the scary parts, entities, in our dreams, and that they may speak to us.
How does a night lamp help you - except after you wake up? And a dreamcatcher?
Perhaps I ought to have said that they are not wonderful but wonder-filled? Same difference I guess. What I meant is that it is still quite remarkable what our brain chemistry is capable of conjuring up - the kind of landscapes given to us, out of the material of our dailly lives. And if that is the case, then what we need to do is to take care of our waking existence as best we can…figure things out, etc.
Have you ever thought that dreams might just be mostly meaningless interpretations made by your brain in a state where it is not fully able to communicate between various areas of the brain, ie those commonly associated with context, meaning or reason. When you are asleep it seems there is a significantly reduced signalling between all the various areas that generally are in play when we consciously make sense of the world. Whilst I wouldn’t be so gauche as to assume this means dreams have no reason or meaning, I might well suggest that most of it is a mix of the days experience and your minds lack of ability to put it in a narrative you could make sense of, and hence has no consistent meaning beyond general fears and doubts you experience on a day to day basis, none of which are related to specific things in a dream.
I know I sound crazy. 
Not crazy. I spelled this out earlier. It’s the interpretation given in the Time/Life book “The Brain”. However,I do believe that unresolved problems cause nightmares. I’m retired. My worst dreams are being back at work with a co-worker who evicted me from her home when I was hospitalized. These dreams are an unwanted replay of the past ad nauseum. They are gut reactions, bearing little resemblance to rational thought. It’s almost as if that affair resonated throughout my body.
Yeah as long as we don’t start going down the road of smoking a cigar as a woman means precisely that you have penis envy or whatever other specific nonsense that we tend to read into dreams I think it’s quite right to say dreams are general and reflect a way of dealing with things broadly rather than specifically.
As far as nightmares go you do tend to have more early on in your dream state, most of which you fail to remember unless you wake up, as the night progresses you tend to have more benign dreams, dreams you are more likely to remember as you move towards consciousness. I would suspect that most nightmares are actually just a normal way of the body stressing itself without you consciously being aware of it with the ultimate result that it removes stress, and it might explain how we prime our brain so we ultimately wake up more relaxed. When of course though we have dreams that repeat themselves over time which you often remember, I think in that case you may be right this is something other than a natural de-stress and more likely to reflect unresolved issues.
Since we are nearing Christmas, I am reminded of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” When Scrooge got his first visit from spirits, he claimed it was because of something he ate. But to stop with that explanation would have limited Dickens’ elaborate symbolisms of a corrupt life. Perhaps, beneath the fantasy was Scrooge’s guilt. So why couldn’t unresolved issues, even if prompted by poor digestion, be at issue here? We seem to want the spirit visitations to be real as suspension of disbelief in the resolution of problems that may spell out the nature of the problems.
I think I have found the significance of the sleeping blue dog, and it’s not what I thought.
Oh sure leave us hanging… 
I don’t mean to, but I don’t want to talk about it in any detail whatsoever, but my questioning on where the colour blue came into the scenario has now been revealed.
Well then I am glad for you, I hope it settles your mind.
The scene:
As I stood on the landing ready to go downstairs I saw what I thought was a bear dart past.
I shouted to everyone to stay upstairs and go to the nearest bedroom for safety.
The beast eventually made its way upstairs… it wasn’t a bear but a jet black lion, and was groomed like a poodle… all curly black mane and hairless body with hair around each paw. He pushed against the door, but his fragile frame had no effect on the closed door so he toddled off.
It’s a dream similr to what I had, before a a real crisis happened in my life. The dream was of a cat, cute and cuddly, which suddenly turned into a roaring lion. Then a real crisis occurred in my life.
I don’t think You have to worry Mags, this is in reverse, something or somebody threatening, is really harmless. The fact that the door has been closed, may be a sign, that You want the beast, rather then the quite ? it’s a kind of beauty and the beast theme. you really down deep prefer the beast.
You want to let him in but ‘they’ constrain You.
I don’t know, if this interpretation fits, but it may work.
Some mllion years humans (including some ancestors of homo sapiens) lived together with wild animals. Since about 6000 years humans have been living together - more or less - with pets and other harmless animals and not or hardly with wild animals. You personally have never lived together with wild animals but merely with pets and other harmless animals. So there is no other sense behind your dream and no other (mostly paranoid or megalomanic) interpretation of your dream meaningful than the simple fact that there is a discrepancy between your species memory and your personal memory. What did you do at the said day before you went to bed, Mags?