Now before getting into the dream, I want to provide some background info that will be useful later on. So 2 weeks ago, our family flew down to Florida for our annual vacation... and for reasons somewhat anticipated, my brother and I got off to a rough start. The whole day of traveling was full of aggression and stubbornness: we insulted & ignored each other, in that order, for the entire day. The atmosphere was extremely tense between us, but we eventually made up upon arrival, something we always do. The brotherly love is different if y’all didn’t know. Anyway, onto the dream.

So 2 nights into our trip, I’m laying in my bed to fall asleep. I can remember bits and pieces of the initial part of my dream, but nothing memorable happened compared to what happens next. So at one point, I’m walking down my street, and then I suddenly find myself in a forest. It’s almost as if I walked through a secret doorway that brought me into this place, and my senses and awarenesses were heightened. So, I’m in this forest, but for some reason, it seemed all too familiar. Its almost felt as if I’d been there many times before, and I wasn’t scared. I naturally started walking down this path. Now, this forest had some unique qualities I’d like to address before moving forward. Firstly, it was very narrow & very green. The narrowness of the path I walked suggested to me that I had to follow it to a predetermined destination. Secondly, on the path I was walking was a rail-track that made bends appropriate to the landscape. Lastly, for some reason, I was wearing headphones. Anyway, as I’m walking down this path, out of no-where comes the rumbling of a mine-cart down the tracks towards me. I managed to jump off the tracks before it hit me, and that’s when I came to a realization: I normally walk out of the forest in the opposite direction, instead of into the forest in which I’m doing now; and if I hadn’t been wearing headphones, the cart would’ve otherwise struck me. The headphones symbolized, to me, ignorance. Despite this, I continued on.

Eventually, I found myself looking over a clearing down to the right of me. As I’m looking down into the distance, I see the shrub begin to rustle. So instinctively, I turn behind me & find cover behind a tall rock that I could barely peer over. A few seconds later, to my delight, a deer sprinted up from the clearing and into my point of view, just 5 feet in front of me. My fear dissipated, and I told myself that I’d head back once this deer left. Before another thought could enter my mind, a medium-sized bear came up behind the deer on all 4’s. Again, i did not fear any of these animals, but I still froze behind the rock so neither of them could see me. Then, in the blink of an eye, from the clearing appears the biggest creature I’ve ever seen: a giant bull. It stood right in front of me, and I sensed it’s power like nothing I had ever before. It was black, 3 times my size, had horns that stretched like an NFL goal post, and had a nose ring in its nose. It looked directly at me. This time, I stood in pure awe analyzing this creature. It was at that moment that the bull leaned over & bit the deers head off. That’s when I woke up.

Now of course when I woke up, I realized that this dream had meaning to it: you can differentiate a vivid dream from on that has meaning. When looking online to see what it could’ve meant, I found an article that suggested that a dream of a bull indicates the presence of, or lock of, aggressiveness. It read, “It is time to take a good look in the mirror. Have you been too aggressive to someone you love or care for recently? If so, you need to be more careful! You may be driving them away.” See any connections to me & my brothers beef? In fact, In leading up to the trip, we were also more hostile towards each other than usual, so it makes sense. However, the story continues beyond a simple meaning... this is where the premonition comes in.

So yesterday, 3 weeks since this dream, the unthinkable happens: a bear was found wandering around our suburban neighborhood... something I’ve never seen or heard of in my entire 22 years of living here. It looked exactly like the bear in my dream. Upon this discovery, something told me to go to the field behind my house. In fact, This field and the forest in my dream were very similar in feel, that I’d even drew parallels to them initially. So, as my inner voice told me to, I made my way toward the field. When I turned the corner from my fence, low and behold, I see a deer staring at me in the distance. Again, in my 22 years of going to this field, never have I seen a deer there. I don’t believe that these things were a coincidence: i was shown my dream.