(sorry for my spelling english is my third language) this is what i remember seeing in my dream. i was doing some research for a subject that i can remember very late at night. when a man in my backyard attracted my attention thru the patio window and scared the shit out of me with his face that was as bright as the moon. really his face was lighting up my whole backyard in the middle of the night and he was holding a broomstick with a chromed bowl attached to it with rivets all around the bowl. He was wearing dark clothes. I was scared at first but then he saw me and he came to help me with my research we talked a lot but i can't remember the conversation between us( i remember thanking him for the help and asking him if he would come back tomorrow and he said yes ... he gave me something made out of fluorescent orange looking rubber. and then woke up looked in my backyard and he was gone. can someone please help me understand this dream????
It sounds like this person is really a part of your personality. In the dream you are accessing a wise part of yourself. He could possibly be the archetype of the wise old man. Someone who is more spiritual might say that he is a spirit guide. Try to think about what the symbols in the dream - the broomstick, the bowl, the orange rubber things, etc. - could mean to you. You might want to try using free association. Do you remember what it was that made you change from feeling scared of the man to wanting to talk to him and see him again?