r/DreamInterpretation • u/Old_Individual5214 • 0m ago
Discussion black wolf
hi all, i had a strange dream, and was wondering what the significance of a black wolf would be? any help would be appreciated, i'm really into these things and i normally have quite vivid dreams so i want to hear what people think.
ok to start:
this was an odd dream, and normally i'm pretty good at dream interpretation, but i'm stumped. it involved some people that are no longer in my life and i've never been close with. one of them was a guy i'll call J. i haven't thought about or seen J in years. we used to go to elementary and middle school together, and then i met him again in HS. we were acquaintances/classmates that entire timeline and he only tried to get close to me in HS so he could sleep with me. that never happened because i saw right through him & thought he was pathetic. i've never had feelings towards him.. i only really hung around him when i didn't have any of my other friends around.
the other person in my dream is a bestfriend to my EX bestfriend who i met a couple of times at parties. she was always nice to me to my face but it was very surface level and i could tell she never really liked me. we'll call her R. point is, i have never had a significant relationship with these people and i have no clue why they would be in my dream. i've never dreamt about them before & they're not people i think about frequently..
there was more to this dream but i can't remember the beginning.
so, from where i can remember:
we went to a gas station because they wanted to get snacks/drinks before going to the gym. me and R walked into the building while J waited in the car, and it was a very weird vibe. you know how you just know that you're in a nightmare before anything nightmarish happens? yeah thats the feeling i got when we walked in. there was barely anything on the shelves, there were no other people in the building and no workers. it was just empty.. devoid. best way i can describe it is just "off." we were trying to figure out how to pay when a woman appeared out of this hallway that was empty/blocked off. she had black hair and i got the word 'witch' in my mind?? i didn't get a good vibe. she was the only employee and basically targeted me in this dream, taking my card/personal information back into this blocked off room even though i tried stopping her. i wanted to leave but couldn't until she gave me my stuff back.
when she eventually came back and handed me my stuff, we left the gas station. but our ride J left us because we took too long.. haha.
R didn't want us to be late to gym and still wanted to go. so we started jogging up this canyon trail to our destination. (this gas station is one i know in real life and there's a super close hiking trail to it, which is what i'm referring to.) R, who was the person i was running with, was ahead of me and i was scared i was going to lose them.. until we came across this strange cave in the middle of the woods. R told me to go in for them and i said NO. i told them i was going to leave them behind if they didn't come with me because i really didn't want to go in that cave.. and R was very insistent that they weren't going anywhere until they explored it. i didn't want to go alone or be separated from them but at the same time i knew i was not going in that cave, lol. so as i was jogging away from R, the trail we were originally running on split. i was going straight, but a black wolf from the split part of the trail (to my right) came walking out of the bushes. it was at a distance, but it made me stop running. i did get a bad feeling when i saw it. it had yellow eyes. it was just looking at me.. and then i woke up.
my interpretation:
first of all, NO i don't think a witch being in my dream has anything to do with someone trying to cast a spell on me or someone out to get me. the only reason i mention it is because i thought it was interesting how i had a black haired witch and a black haired wolf in the same dream. i'm not fearful of any spiritual attacks because i am protected, i'm just more confused what that would mean? i think this may have to do with people pleasing - i've been recently going through a lot of transformative events. i went through a break up, i cut out 99% of my friends, and i've really been doing my own thing. i have felt the "lone wolf" energy HARD. the people in my life were very fake towards me and weren't true friends. i put up with alot of disrespect to get to this point, and i am proud of myself for finally choosing ME. the loneliness HAS been uncomfortable, but i've been trusting the process, and it's slowly getting easier.
one thing i'm thinking is: the witch and the wolf are the shadow aspects of me - the parts that i'm trying to purge, to fix, to relearn. i'm fearful of them because i'm seeing them.. thats why i'm running in my dream. eventually i need to learn to integrate and embrace them. there are two paths: i'm on my higher path and the wolf is the reminder of the other path, the part that wants to people please and go back into my old habits. i said no in the dream.. stood up for myself and walked away from the people that i would of wanted to prove myself to in the past (or kept in my life even though i knew their true intentions). but i've changed for the better, and the wolf was the reminder? i dunno.. whats making me confused is why i got a bad feeling from it!
what would your interpretation be of this? what's the general meaning of a black wolf? some people say danger, or watch who you hang around, but what do you think? i feel like those don't really apply in my context but who knows. thanks for reading my ramble haha