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> > BTW, um... is it that frequent for women to get chased around in dreams by unknown assailants? Just curious.
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> It is for me. I have had this one particular re-occuring dream since I was a child. It's a very short dream, I can never seem to see anything other than one scene. All I know is that I am being chased by someone in all black. It's like an overcoat or something with a hood. I can never see a face, but I know it's a man. I don't know how I know that, but I just do. Anyway, I do always get away, but it's really peculiar as to how I do it. First, let me say that I am always a child in the dream. I suppose that's because I was a child when it started. Anyway, I am running and I get to my backyard. By that time I have run so much as to get all out of breathe, even though, it doesn't seem to me that I have run that far, like I said before. But just as he's about to get me I run to my swingset and jump and grab ahold of the top bar. Somehow, and I have never figured this out, this makes the man dissappear and I wake up. It's really wierd, but I have had it off and on for years and years, and I can't seem to figure out why. Who knows...
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I'm rereading Duel of the Ages (for research purposes, y'know:) and there's that reference in both Chapter 4 and 5 to Darius' recurring chase-scene nightmare where--

"Darius must cope with destructive feelings such as hatred and jealousy which manifest themselves metaphorically as dogs that chase Darius in his dreams and feed on his flesh. The dog named Desire is portrayed as a little dog who feeds on what's left after the other dogs are finished, then curls up in the pit of his stomach and goes to sleep."

Hoo. Needless to say, that scene is real *deep*. What I don't get, metaphorically speaking, is Why would the last dog that stays on with him be Simple Desire?

Wolfspirit