I've had some horrible dreams in my time but i think this 1 has to be 1 of my worse.
I've mentioned before i have 5 house rabbits which i love. I'm mad on animals and this dream not only stuck in my mind but makes me feel ashamed when i mention it; my family looked at me in shock when i told them.
It wasn't that clear but certain parts were..i dreamt i had Dylan, my white netherland dwarf on my lap. I was looking down at him and for some reason felt i had to get rid of him because of some urgent situation??! Next thing i knew was that he was dead and that i had had to do it, but didn't see it happen. Strangely in my dream i wasn't upset at that time.
My dad has been bed bound for many years and i often take him up food to help my mom whos also ill. In my dream i took him up a plate and when i passed it him there was a bunch of grapes and Dylans head on the plate.
I looked and suddenly my eyes zoomed in on 2 small dots of blood just above his left eye, apart from that there wasn't anymore blood. As i went to walk out the room, i saw my dad pick up his knife and fork and was about to cut into him, but then stopped and asked me, 'This isn't the one you came in with today is it?,' and i said, 'No' and rushed out of the room.
When i got downstairs it all suddenly hit me and i was hysterical, i couldn't believe why and how i could do that. I was asking people what the hell was wrong with me to do that, and then i woke up.
2 days later Dylan got ill and wouldn't eat. I was convinced he was going to die because of that vile dream and couldn't stop crying. I was angry thinking that if that dream was somehow shown me to warn me that he going to be ill, what a horrible and sick way to do that! I was syringing anti biotics, paste, fluids and mushed up pellets into his tiny mouth for 5 days and he thankfully got better. I don't expect anyone to really know what to say to all this but i would be interested if anyone had any thoughts.
Hi Energy3,
I don't generally like to interpret dreams apart from acknowledging that our emotions, especially those that we do not express freely, the ones we "keep the lid on", tend to come up in various exaggerated forms in our dreams.
I've had plenty of pretty horrible dreams in which I stabbed and otherwise hurt other people and animals, whilst in reality I am literally incapable of hurting a fly - but I know that I do suppress anger, so it has to come out in one way or the other (and dreams are possibly a less harmful way of releasing it than some others, e.g. physical symptoms).
On the subject of the rabbit getting ill - from my experience with animals, they are very attuned to the state/mood of their owner, and it may be that your rabbit was sensitive to the way you were feeling at the time, hence the illness.
Masha
Hello Masha,
Thankyou for your reply. I agree that anger must be released in one form or another, but i really don't think that that was what it was on this occassion.
I also believe that animals sense your mood but i have 5 rabbits in my home, why would my mood just affect him? Although i must say that when my other rabbit Tyler died and i cried, they did all sit still and just look at me from their cages. A couple of times i held one why i was upset, and they stayed uncharacteristically still, as if they were allowing me to use them for something to hold while i was upset.
The dream itself was vague but the parts with Dylan were really vivid and didn't feel like a usual dream.
After my nan died, i had a very clear and vivid dream that she came walking towards me out across a vast grassed area with trees in the background, it reminded me of Canada..and she was smiling. When she got closer she opened her arms and held me. It was a little windy and i could see her grey curly hair blowing in the wind in the corner of my eye. I wanted to pull away so that i could look at her face but i woke up. That was a few years ago now and i can still see it in my mind as if it was yesterday; i know without any boubt that that wasn't just a dream, it feels different.
Maybe he was trying to let you know he was ill and your subconcious picked up on it. As graphic as the dream was it seems like you picked up on his illness. I am glad to say all is well with Dylan & sorry to hear about the dream it's amazing what the subconcious can pick up.