Dreaming about a dog: what does it mean? |

dream about a dog it can represent both positive and negative facets of the dreamer – that is, it can be good or bad. Everything will depend on the context of the dream and your own life: dreaming of dogs attacking you, having a dog as a friend and seeing dogs and other people in the same place can symbolize very different things

Check out more details below to help you better understand what you dreamed of and even help you make decisions in your life.

Dreaming about a dog: is it good or bad?

The meaning of dreaming about a dog can be both good and bad. On the positive side, when a dog appears in dreams, it could indicate a phase where the dreamer is feeling protected or even seeking protection and security for yourself, your family or your assets.

On the more negative side of the interpretation and the most common from what I observe, the dog symbolizes a strong family complex influencing us. In other words, a way of behaving (a habit or addiction) that comes from our parents and/or grandparents. The fidelity to this behavioral pattern.

In systemic psychology, there is a term that well defines these parental patterns that dominate us: faithfulness to family legacy.

Parents or grandparents who, for example, went bankrupt or suffered financially from some loss end up seeing their standards in relation to money being faithfully reproduced by children and grandchildren.

And these, to be faithful (of course unconsciously) to these financial standards experienced by parents/grandparents, professionally and monetarily sabotage themselves.

Not that the dog symbolizes the familiar pattern of financial failure, but he can represent any behavioral pattern inherited from our ancestors that are faithfully reproduced unconsciously and/or compulsively by us in our daily lives.

Relationship between the dream and your life

That is why it is so important to pay very close attention to the dream in which the dog is present. Especially because it has a very positive potential when it is part of our dream scenario: there are real chances of making us even more aware of which family pattern we are being faithful to.

Not by chance, the three-faced dog is the great companion of the goddess Hecate: the goddess of crossroads. The dog symbolizes many paths. When we dream of this animal, there is the possibility of conscious choice and unconscious choice (the one that faithfully reproduces a behavioral pattern inherited from the family).

Therefore, the dog also symbolizes a phase that is being completed and another that is about to begin. It can be both external, like a change of house or job, or internal, when we reach a new level of consciousness.

This second is inevitably linked to this perception of how faithfully we reproduce a family legacy and how much we can make a different choice in this existential moment we find ourselves in when we dream about the dog.

How to understand the meaning of your dream

Amplifying a dream consists of exploring more deeply the symbolism of what the unconscious has chosen to represent a psychic situation for us.

In this sense, the questions we ask for the dream allow us to explore the meaning that the symbol has for each one, individually. They facilitate reflection and encourage personal associations with the dreamer’s own experiences.

From there, reflect on the questions pointed out below.

Step One: Questions to Ask Yourself About the Dream

Are you being chased or attacked by a dog? Does he threaten you in any way? Is the dog meek, companion and makes you comfortable and calm? In which scenario or with which people does the dog perform?

Step Two: What’s Happening in Your Real Life

Are you at a stage where you are concerned about security, about protecting something or someone? Can you see it at a time when one cycle is ending and another is about to start?

Observe your behavior, your thoughts and feelings right now. Do they have anything in common with the behavior, thoughts and feelings of their parents and/or grandparents?

Do you feel like you’re at a crossroads, struggling to make a choice, make a decision and follow a certain path? Who is deciding for you? Yourself, a habitual behavioral pattern or an addiction? Do you see yourself acting and making decisions in a way that repeats the same story or result? For example, sabotaging your success, stifling love, stifling happiness, just to get the same consequences you saw your parents or grandparents have?

What does it mean to dream about a dog?

What is dreaming about a dog can have several meanings. Below are some of the main ones:

Dream about dog chasing you

When you dream of a dog biting or dream of a dog attacking or chasing an animal or a person in a dream, it means that our unconscious is dramatizing the urgent need to become aware of what this animal or person symbolizes.

In the case of dreaming of an angry dog, when it chases or threatens the dreamer, or even dreaming of a dog bite, it is a way for our interior to say: “It is a top priority for you to become aware of what I represent, because I can sabotage something. area of ​​your life and make you make a decision that is totally unfavorable to your growth”.

So, it’s worth making those reflections about what you might be repeating in your life, which is the same part of your parents’ and/or grandparents’ story. What family legacy (habit or addiction) are you being – until now – unconsciously faithful to.

Dreaming with a companion dog

When the dog is your friend, a great companion or does not attack you, it will be worth realizing if you are not attached to a comfort zone or if you are simply in a propitious phase to seek more security in your life.

Dreaming about the scenario in which the dog appears

The scenario in which the dog appears in the dream may show the area of ​​your life where you need to be more attentive in order not to reproduce a familiar behavioral pattern.

Let’s assume that the dog appears in the office where the dreamer works. – then, in the professional sphere, you will need to make decisions that are not the faithful reproduction of what your ancestors lived.

It’s time to do different and follow your own destiny, because your story differs from theirs.

Dreaming that other people are in the dream

What is dreaming about a dog really can have several answers. If your dream has other people, including, the meaning can also vary.

If the people who are in the scene where the dog is, they can represent attributes and attitudes that you need to be aware of not to assume, as they can generate dissatisfaction and negative results in this phase.

Of course, according to what you think is more negative in these people’s personalities. For example, if the dog shares space with a corrupt politician in your dream, be careful not to reproduce that person’s behavior in your life.