DOG

The dog appears more often than any other animal in dreams. It represents your natural drives that, despite usually being well socialized, still have a tendency to revert back to their spontaneous or ‘wild’ state. This is particularly the case if the dog within is provoked or encouraged. Dogs can also represent those parts of yourself that you express spontaneously: your easy-flowing natural feelings; devotion, perhaps to a lover or child; fidelity and faithfulness. Like the cat, the dog can be a substitute baby for women, or represent an outlet for affection or caring. This is particularly true of dreams about puppies, which are a symbol of childlike playfulness or following someone about in a devoted way. In mythology, the dog has symbolized the guardian of the gates of death, or a messenger between the hidden and the visible worlds. The dog was also thought of as a guide or guardian of the hidden side of life.

If a dog appears in your dream, pay attention to whether it was aggressive or friendly. It is also important to consider what your waking feelings about dogs are, as this will have an influence on the interpretation of your dream.

If you love dogs and you enjoyed caring for or playing with your dog in your dream, then it may be a sign that you are in need of more fun and friendship in your real life. Alternatively, because dogs are traditionally thought to be loyal, dependable, faithful friends and protectors to humans, it may be that your unconscious was highlighting these qualities within yourself or a person you know. Perhaps you are longing to have a friend you can trust and on whom you can depend.

Dogs typically represent friends and companionship in dreams, so if you dreamed of taking out-of-control dogs for a walk with them all straining on a lead, perhaps you are finding it hard to fit into your current circle of friends; do you feel that you have little in common with them anymore? If your dog broke away from you or you dropped its lead in your dream, do you fear losing the trust or loyalty of your friends? If you are taking a dog for a walk and were holding the lead, this suggests that you might be restraining of your aggression towards a friend or someone else; if someone else is holding the lead, it may be that you are feeling attacked by someone you know.

If a dog was aggressive in your dream and you fear dogs in waking life, your unconscious may have been reflecting your waking fear. If, however, you love dogs in real life, such a dream may represent a friend who is about to turn on you in waking life—perhaps they already have.

The loud barking of a dream dog can signal the animal within you trying to break free. Perhaps you feel angry about someone or something and are close to exploding with rage; or is your bark worse than your bite? A dog barking happily shows that you are enjoying your social life. A friendly, happy dog shows that you have lots of good friends. A dog barking and snarling warns against enemies and if the dream dog is big and powerful, as well as friendly, it shows that you feel in need of a powerful protector.

If a dog bit you in your dream, could this suggest an ungrateful loved one or relative who is biting the hand that feeds? Since dogs are often associated with masculine energy, if you were attacked by a dream dog, such a dream might represent feelings about a man or a relationship with a man. The black dog figures quite frequently in people’s dream imagery. For some people it represents depression; for others, death.

If a dog appears in your dream you may also want to consider if your dreaming mind is speaking in puns. Do you feel ‘sick as a dog’ or are you ‘in the doghouse’, and so on? Although interpretations will vary, bear in mind that in general a dream of dogs usually has positive association.

• If you dream of a dog, it may symbolize your animalistic nature. Perhaps you haven’t fully embraced your primal instincts.
• A dog frothing with rage could indicate a repressed part of you that is on the brink of causing trouble. This part needs attention and space to exist.
• If the dog is paired with a wolf, the wolf will represent your animal nature. Meanwhile, the dog may represent a higher part of your nature if its emotional feel contrasts with the wolf's in the dream.
• A dog may stand for a person you know, in which case the dream is telling you something about the person's character or expressing what you feel about the person.

Dogs can also represent your sexual desires, your easy flowing natural feelings, your loyalty and devotion to a lover or child, or your guardedness and controlled urges. For some people, a dog represents the only source of expressive love they experienced as children. A dog on a leash can symbolize restrained or controlled urges. Dogs appear more often than any other animal in dreams.

A dog can be man's loyal friend and companion, so it may represent a real friendship. A dog’s extreme loyalty to its owner can represent being too loyal to your friends and sacrificing your needs. A dead dog can represent the death of a friendship, while the birth of a puppy can signify the arrival of a new friendship. A dog bite can be a response to an argument with a friend. Dogs as guardians can represent the need for personal protection, or they may suggest that you feel watched, as by a watchdog. In some cultures, seeing a dog in a dream can symbolize ungrateful, worldly people, evil men, or fears of being bitten or attacked by dogs. A pack of wild dogs can represent emotions and feelings that you are afraid of. A black dog may suggest a fear of depression, while a red dog may indicate that you cannot rely on your friends.

A dog can embody a wide range of qualities, from unbridled joy, constant affection, and enthusiastic loyalty to fears about being bitten or attacked. Dogs may also represent fears around love and connection, as well as commitment and intimacy. Different types of dogs can embody a variety of qualities, from the dog that rescues a person in danger to the harrowing attacker. Dogs range in shape, from something tiny enough to put in your pocket to large breeds that resemble small bears.

In addition, seeing a dog in a dream could indicate that someone is behaving insolently or has a repulsive and abominable character. A barking dog could be a sign of impudence or an abominable character. If a dog tears off your clothing in a dream, it could mean that someone is backbiting or slandering you. If a dog bites or scratches you in a dream, it could signify harm caused by an enemy, and the severity of the harm will depend on the amount of pain you experience in the dream. If a dog leads you in a dream, it could mean that you are aware of your inner strength and live in harmony with it.

(Bitch; Canine; Desire; Greyhound; Japanese spaniel; Pekingese, Lust, Puppy, Shepherds’ dog, Tyke) In a dream, a dog represents an insolent man who dares to indulge in sinful actions.

If he barks in the dream, it means that such a man is impudent and has a repulsive and an abominable character.

A dog bite or his scratch in a dream means harm caused by one’s enemy and its effects will depend on the amount of pain one suffers in the dream. It could also mean falling sick or suffering from great affliction or harm caused by a close companion or a servant.

If a dog tears off one’s clothing in a dream, it means that a vile person is slandering and backbiting him. Ifone does not hear the barking of the dog in the dream, it signifies that one’s enemy has left him inflected with a small loss.

A dog in a dream also could represent a vile and an insolent woman who belong to a group of evildoing people and who are persistent in their enmity.

A puppy in a dream represents a loved child.

If it is a white puppy in the dream, it means that such a son will grow to be a believer.

If it is a black puppy in the dream, it means that he will grow to govern the household and to presides over its people.

A puppy in a dream also represents a child of adultery, a foundling who is left in the street, wrapped in a swaddle and who is brought home by an insolent person to rear him.

A shepherd’s dog in a dream represents profits and benefits.

A pet dog in a dream represents an astringent and a bitter enemy. Seeing a greyhound in a dream means gaining authority, control and wealth.Agreyhound in a dream also represents the backbone of an army general or his best helper or it could represent a good strategist, though he lacks principals and moral integrity.

A Japanese spaniel or a Pekingese in a dream signifies mixing with, or doing business with a foreign counterpart. Bringing-up a dog for companionship in a dream means befriending a servant for whom one has great love and affection. Hunting with a dog in a dream means satisfying one’s lust or desire. Killing a dog in a dream signifies vanquishingone’s enemy. Seeing an expedition of hounds leaving a town for a chase or a hunt in a dream means blessings and prosperity for everyone, or it could mean taking action. Seeing the expedition of hounds returning from a hunt or a chase in a dream means dispelling people’s fears, or it could mean lack of work. Ifone sees such expedition entering a town in his dream, it also means a high rate of unemployment. Seeing a sick house dog in a dream means illness and financial losses or loss of appetite or losing the pleasure of living.

A barking bitch in a dream signifies harm and deceit which is caused by abominable people.

A dog in a dream also means suffering from extremely high fever and in relation to Dog star or the stars Procyon and Sirius of the constellations Canis Minor and Canis Major. In a dream, all breeds of dogs represent lowly, obsequious and despicable people. Seeing dogs that are reared for bantering or dallying with in a dream signify fun and enjoying one’s life. In the dream, anything that happens to such a breed of dogs means suffering from distress, sorrow or loss of one’s pleasure of living. Ifone is transformed into a dog in a dream, it means that God Almighty has taught him great knowledge which he abused and discarded, then God Almighty stripped him from such a knowledge.

A dog in a dream also represents a police informer or a police dog.

A dog in a dream also represents a weak enemy or a niggardly person.

If a dog barks at someone in a dream, it means that one will hear something he despises or hates to make public from someone who lacks any sense of honor or virtue. Eating a dog’s meat in a dream means cracking down at one’s enemy.

A dog in a dream also represents a guard or an innovator. Drinking dog’s milk in a dream means a scare. Laying one’s head on a dog or relaxing with a dog or using the dog for a pillow in a dream, the dogthen represents a friend or a good companion.

A dog in a dream also represents a street boy, a beggar or an obsequious, lowly and a despicable person who maintains affection toward his master and jealously guards him, his children and property.

A dog in a dream also means greed, love for the worldly pleasures, committing a dogfight to win them and failing to have any reserve or savings. In a dream, all types of dogs also represent people. Ahunting dog in a dream represents honor and profits.

A shepherd’s dog represents a good neighbor who cares more about his neighbors than about his own household. Adopting a dog as a pet in a dream means wavering, or paying financial damages, or it could mean unemployment. Takinga dog for a companion on a journey in a dream means disappearing.

A dog in a dream also means disbelief, ingratitude or losing hope, belying, fear, imprisonment, or becoming a fugitive. Seeing a dog in a city in a dream also means renewal of one’s business contract.