So,I am a girl with a boy who has been in my dreams since well forever. I actually saw him in my dreams last night that is why I am posting now, I can not stop thinking about him for some reason. It all started when I was about 9 1/2, in one of my dreams a little boy who was around my age at the time --he was a bit tall for a 9 1/2 or 10 year old, had black hair and vibrant green eyes, he was wearing a tunic and what appeared to be spandex, or something similar-- walked up to me and introduced himself as little kids do, and we started playing. It didn't seem strange to me until I asked his name and all he said was, "I am whoever and whatever you want me to be, little one." I remember getting irritated at him calling me little when he appeared no older than me. He left until the next night where walked up to me and asked I had a name for him yet. I decided to call him Seth, for no particular reason, it just seemed to fit.

Since this started 8 years ago, he has aged with me and has not changed much,he still has black hair, but his eyes I have noticed, have gotten slightly duller. Anyways, I was sitting with him once in my dream on a riverside surrounded by forest, and I asked him what he was, he replied with, "I cannot tell you for I am afraid I would hurt you if I did." I have asked him few times since, I felt I would hurt him if I asked too many times. Once though, I asked while we were walking on a trial through that same forest and he broke down and said, "I am only hear to help you, I swear. I myself am not sure of what I am, or why I am hear, but I know I care for you and I don't want you to get hurt." OH by the way, I am always in the same five places in my dreams: a river, a forest, a rock quarry with a large body of water in the middle, a large thicket (by large I mean the size of a small classroom), a castle, or a pet shop with odd animals (like chimera and snakes with two heads and that sort of thing). i have never left these five places, although once in a while the river will flood, but that is only when I am really stressed and emotional.Sometimes it will be a mix of two of them, for instance, a river passing through a forest, or a rock quarry surrounded by a forest, or a castle with a river and forest in the court yard and so on. Seth has never once not been in my dreams he has been there every night since these have started. The odd thing though is that I still don't feel like I know very much about him.

It is not that this boy bugs me, not at all, I am thankful for him really. It is only, I do not understand him or what he is. I have been told that this is my over active animus, but Seth denies that he is, he says he is of a greater world and could not possibly reside in my mind. I would just like some insight on what he may be, for instance, a guide, or a guardian, or something of another sort. Also, any insight on what the places may represent would be helpful too. Thank you~

Sorry all, I didn't realize I typed so much, XD

I think that he is a part of you, even though he denies it in the dream. Maybe he is a part of yourself that you don't want to accept or that you don't think you can integrate with the rest of your personality.

The name "'Seth" is interesting. Are you aware that the ancient Egyptians had a god named Set or Seth?

It's interesting that this started when you were around 9 1/2. That's around the age when you are expected to start giving up boyish pursuits and behave in a more feminine manner. So maybe he represents the little boy/tomboy inside of you that you had to give up/hide. (There is a really good book called Reviving Ophelia that deals with this. It's not about dreams; it's about how society makes girls give up that part of themselves.)

I agree with Marcia. I think Seth is probably a lot closer to the truth when he says he really doesn't know who he is; and that his talk of it being impossible to reside in your mind is either wish fulfillment on his part or a desire to impress you. (And if he's the only man you meet who doesn't stretch the truth now and then, you're a lucky gal indeed.)

Still, he seems to have indeed been guardian, guide, friend and, in his way, lover. tjhere are dream characters like this, though he's the most steadfast I've heard of. The only problem I see here is if he is interfering with your capacity to relate to waking-world men.

Sheer speculation on my part; but I wonder if those dulling eyes don't mean you're not gradually integrating him into the rest of your personality. I'm afraid it happens. Vivid dream characters whom you've learned to love sooner or later become one with you. Their characteristics become more those of Kymber (or Bob) than of Seth. You see them more seldom - but the happy memories are always there.

By the way. Besides being an Egyptian god, "Seth" is the name Adam and Eve give to the son she bears after Cain kills Abel in the Genesis account. The name is still common among Jews, and far from unheard of among Christians.

Frankly, Kymber, I wouldn't worry too much about who or what he is. The important part is: He is; and he's been a loyal friend all these years. I'd only worry if he interfered with you in the waking world; and it does not sound like he does.

No, No he doesn't interfere with my life at all, but sometimes he'll drop a little quote or something that just sticks, oh, like that one last week, what was it. . . I think it was "when we think a thing, we don't really think what we think, we only think what we think we think." Actually it kinda reminded me of the matrix XD. But no, Seth does not interfere with my relationships with actually living boys or anyone for that matter.

And since you both mention it, the name choice is a little odd with those cases presented, isn't it?I only ever studied Egypt when I was in sixth grade, and I have never been religious, but since you mention the, "common among Jews" part, my family is mostly Jewish, I think it's kind of ironic in it's own little way.

I'm not sure I agree with him; but it's something to think about. Or to think what you think you think about. He sounds very deep. I've had a similar person in my own dreams, a Wise Lady, who's given me many things to ponder and taught me many lessons, such as: "When your life is just a lot of going through the motions, make the motions beautiful!"

She, and Seth, are ultimately mysteries that neither we nor they will solve this side of heaven. The Wise Lady, in waking inner dialogue, said she thought she was intrapsychic; but didn't know. Another tends to the approach of "I exist. How, I neither know nor worry about. Live with it. About the time you can tell me why the universe produced you, we'll talk about me."

Sometimes the worst thing you can do with a dream is analyze it. A scientist, I believe his name was Polyani, said, "The map is not the territory."
Cutting things up tends to kill them, and in this case your dreams of Seth, or with Seth, are more important than any interpretation or analysis.

But, if the subject comes up, you might tell him I don't quite know what to think about what I think about what I think of what he said. Perhaps it's that "thinking" is a much more complex process than we believe. (I'm afraid to say "think".) We see it as a concious process; but there are emotions, intuitions, judgments and who-knows-what unconcious factors there, some of which we're unaware of. Which is not to say thinking is bad or illusory, just that there's more to it than meets the eye.

As for the name Seth, who knows? If you heard about it in the 6th Grade, or have ever read or had read to you the Genesis story, the name would be in your unconcious; and might strike his fancy.