Sometimes our dreams help clarify our wants and desires.

In the dream, I was with my husband and we were visiting friends.   I didn’t see the friends, but they had a batch of black Scottish terrier puppies around five or six weeks old.  At least five or six.  They were very cute.  Our friends handed the puppies to my husband to hold while we sat in our truck.  They wiggled and squirmed in his arms, as they were playful and young.  He looked like he didn’t quite know what to do with them and looked to me as if for advice or help.  I just smiled at the whole scene and thought it was quite cute.  I secretly hoped he would pick one to take home.

Significant Symbols:

Husband-represents actual spouse or what I think of him

Friends-friendly relationships with others

Black-unknown or unconscious knowledge

Puppies-loyalty/faithfulness/unconditional love/instincts

Type of Dog-a Scottish terrier has high energy and can be loving and fun

Truck-one’s self, one’s work, one’s current situation

This dream expresses my desire for my husband to instinctively show more unconditional love towards people he has friendly relationships with.  In a friendly relationship (friends), there is a natural instinct to connect and learn with each other (puppies).  I would like for him to embrace that natural instinct and nurture it (keeping a puppy).  This will help bring forth unconscious knowledge/understanding (black) about others and ourselves that we would benefit from and enjoy (type of dog). Our current life situation (truck) would benefit from him opening himself more with others he normally does not try to connect with (such as coworkers who are work friends).

We just had a conversation last night which highlighted this very issue.  I urged him to be more accepting and friendly towards his coworkers but he resists as they aren’t the type of people he would normally connect with.  He allows personality issues to irritate him instead of learning to appreciate them as they are.