I'll warn in advance...It disturbs me to even write about this, nevermind remembering it, so if you're very sensitive to gore/blood then maybe you shouldn't be reading this post and imagining it.


Dream begins with me entering some kind of abandoned beach. I am ducking through the perimeter fence (vertical wooden boards, some broken or falling over). The sky is some kind of dark color but it's ugly and unnatural, unlike nighttime. I cannot see them clearly but there is another person with me, seems like a young girl my age or a bit older. We are crawling (military style) across the sand, the other person on my left side, amidst boards and old dusty signs. I can read a few of the signs to my right and one of them says either "6" or "66" (like a highway sign?), another is like a billboard and it says "Monsato" (I know what that is and I feel resentment).
We keep crawling across the sand and I become aware that my body is incredibly heavy and I can't stand up or even get up on my knees, I can only crawl (though speed is no problem).
I never find out where we end up, because the dream changes abruptly.

I am now in a grassy space enclosed by many dense trees and wire fence. I feel vaguely unwell. There is a starving, beaten-looking donkey behind a tall barbed wire fence. It looks at me, and I feel that it has an abuser somewhere. I am leading the donkey for a second, then I see it walking to the right infront of me. It's hind hooves snap off at the ankles, but the donkey keeps walking. There is a lamb. It's been mutilated, hind hooves have been severed and are laying in the grass several feet away, blood pooling from them. I need to save the lamb and the donkey. I carry the lamb and think "I must get someone to pick up the severed hooves." I place the lamb, which is limp like a ragdoll, on tile floor. I see the hooves are now on the tile, blood pooling and smeared across the floor. I need to call someone to help. PETA? I begin feeling very nauseated, panic and horror sets in.
I wake up fighting the urge to be violently ill.

I beg for help in remedying these occasional horror dreams (almost all involving me witnessing the mutilation of, or sickness of animals).
I've wondered if the dreams mean anything, but I don't want to remember them because they disturb me so much. If anyone can find any meaning in this one...

Animals in dreams often represent our instincts.

Since the lamb and the donkey are gentle animals, especially the lamb, they represent a part of you that is naturally gentle and vulnerable, that you think has beeen hurt.

When I think of you crawling in the first part of the dream, it reminds me of a military crawl, which makes me think of the strong part of you trying to protect the weak parts.

There seems to be some Christian symbolism in the dream - the lamb, the donkey, 66(6). Does that resonate with you at all?

Christian symbolism, hmm? Interesting, I can see that now.
As for some kind of hurt, or protecting weak parts...Nothing particular comes to mind at the moment about any relation to my waking life. Maybe I should think about it some more. :?

I have been having reoccurring dreams about trying to save wounded animals for years. They are almost always kittens in my dreams. I wish I could provide some insight, but I'm new at all this. I always feel really helpless in these dreams. Marcia's comment about the animals representing a vulnerable aspect of ourselves makes sense to me.

I wonder if the fact that these are recurring dreams is a sign that there is a part of you that still needs to be healed.