I have been up for that past three days at 4AM. Well, this morning was a bit different… I fell asleep in the basement watching TV; I did wake up a little after I fell asleep to turn the TV off. I had a long day so I did not bother getting off the sofa to my bed.

A bad dream suddently woke me up..

I was in my home in North Carolina. The dogs (which whom I love dearly) were at the patio door as usual if they want to go out. I looked out the door and noticed something in the yard. Didn’t know at the time what it was, but at some point I thought it was a person. As I opened the patio door Jojo my German Shepherd Dog ran out the house and right behind him Roxy my Rottweiler went. They both ran towards this tree. I saw something jump in the tree and my Jojo, jumped up as well. Roxy was on the ground. As Jojo was in the tree I realized what was in my yard. It was a Leopard. The leopard jumped out the tree and ran out a hole in my wood fence (looked as if the leopard made the hole, as if it ran right through the wood fence). As the leopard leaves the yard, Jojo jumps out the tree and walks towards the house, meanwhile Roxy is still in the yard investigating. As Jojo walks up the deck, the leopard returns and walks up the deck as well. My dogs are not fighting or even barking at this animal. I tried to let Jojo in the house because I was scared at that point but the leopard was in front of him closer to the door. As I was telling Jojo to come, he chased the leopard off the deck. They ended up in the yard closer to the hole the leopard made in the fence. As they go closer to the hole the leopard attacked my dog. While this was going on another leopard came into the yard. Roxy tried to go over and help but was being attacked too. I started yelling to my mother "go get the gun, go get the gun". She ran up the stairs, never to return. I had nothing…. I ran upstairs knowing I will be able to see this from my bedroom window and fire the gun off. When I got to my room there was something blocking my view (looked like a wood deck, but my room is on the second floor of the house) and the gun wasn’t loud enough to scare the leopards off. It sounded as if the gun was jammed. I was screaming, crying, and yelling for my dogs.

I woke up!

I woke up crying and breathing really hard. Because I take dreams so literal, I called my mother to check on her and the dogs. Now remember its 4AM. She was okay and so were my fur babies.

Upon further research of what this dream meant, I ran across this dream and definition on a website…. Please remember not all of this persons dream will equate to mine, but all in all the dogs being attacked is what I was reading about.


THE DREAM It was winter and it was night time, there were no clouds in the sky and the ground was covered in thick shiny snow. I must have lived in the country because I had no neighbors, no fence, and my backward turned into a thick forest. My house was huge and light colored, it had a 2 tiered wooden deck that went to the back yard. In the dream I was talking to someone (the person had no face, name, body, but I believe it was a male) and telling the person that there was a leopard in the woods. The person did not believe me so I got a flashlight and right at the edge of the forest we both saw a leopard’s thick tail disappear into the forest. I then gave the person a I told you so speech and we both went inside. I then began to wrestle around with a fawn Great Dane and Grayish colored Pit bull ( I have no dogs in real life) in front of the fire. Then for some reason I got up and let them outside, immediately both dogs went running towards the forest barking and growling. In the dream I see no fight just black shadows moving and barking. I was yelling encouraging things to my dog to get the cat and destroy it, and then I started yelling for them to come back. My dream then goes to a close up of the dogs, the leopard was gone but the pit bull was hurt on the ground and wasn't moving. The Great Dane some how nudges the dog up and then the dream goes back to my perspective. I see the dogs limping and bloody walk up the stair come into the house and lie down in front of the fire.

THE REALITY Earlier in the day, the dreamer had tried to talk to a friend about why she was being so distant which went no where. Also, the dreamer had been suffering from a little bit of depression.

THE INTERPRETATION Dreams following some big incident can be easy to explain. In this case the dreamer had been frustrated after trying to resolve a problem with a friend. So how could this dream be consistent with that?

Firstly the dream shows the dreamer being assertive. That surely mimics real life where she was really trying to resolve a problem with her friend. She had made a real effort after spotting a problem. The leopard symbolizes the problem that needs dealing with.

The dogs symbolize her attempts to solve the problem. The dogs are fighting dogs showing her mood - an assertive and confrontational mood aimed at solving a problem. The dogs are injured which show that this attempt at resolving a problem has left her feeling down. Her feelings were a little hurt and injured just like the dogs.

The winter and woods symbolize the nature of the problem. Winter is cold and bleak and can be symbolic of cold and in this case distant emotions.

It seems to make sense.