What do you make of this?

[lisa]

This is sort of half dream half vision...

background: about a month ago one of our greyhounds, ShutEye passed away in his sleep while at the kennel...I was devastated with a lot of guilt that I did not get to say goodbye and that he died without me...he was with our other Grey Trysta, but she was in a separate run. He was cremated and his ashes are in an urn in the curio cabinet in our foyer...so, he will still be able to greet our guests when they arrive.

about a week after he "came home" I woke up as usual around 3:30am...it's my stupid sleep pattern which usually then takes me a good hour to get back to sleep...well...I'm up and clearly awake but still lying in bed, and I hear Trysta come back into the bedroom from the guest room, but while she is walking in the doorway I also see a white sort of silhouette dog head come in the room with her...it came in at a weird angle...so I assumed it was ShutEye coming to visit...then the dead dog smell hit me and I was now quite sure it was ShutEye...so I told him he was always welcome to come but to please knock off the smell...it went away...I closed my eyes and was immediately hit with this vision:

ShutEye standing behind the storm door in my foyer looking out to me, I must have been standing on the front lawn. Both his ears were standing straight up, something he only did when interested in something...he was beautiful and looked younger than I had ever known him to be (he was 7 when I rescued him) but the strange part was...he had two dark brown patches on either side of his head near his eyes...now Shutty was a very tall white and brindle dog...but by the time I got him his face was all whited out with age and you could barely make out the patch over his left eye...I never knew him to have one over the right one...

so I let it all go, and went back to sleep...

a couple of days later my son tells me he had a dream about ShutEye...he said the dog was standing by the staircase (in the foyer) and he let him pet him, but he thought it was weird because in the dream he knew Shutty was dead so how could he be petting him...my son is 7...I immediately asked him what Shutty looked like...if he remembered any patches on his head...he said he did...but he only saw the right side of him, but there was a patch of brown by his eye, I asked if it was whited out or bright brown and he said definitely bright brown...now again...the right side of his head is the one I could have sworn never had a patch...

Now I'm all intrigued and start looking through the pictures and sure enough...I found one of when I first got him 4 years ago where on the right side of his head you could barely barely make out that once upon a time there had been a brown patch by his eye...

Then about two weeks later I have a dream...this was definitely a dream this time...Shuteye was lying on the floor in this place I had never been...he looked like he did right before he died, face all whited out...I sat on the floor with him and held him and just petted him...in the dream I knew he was dead, and was just appreciated the moments with him again...knowing it would be hard to let go and not looking forward to having to...he just stayed in my lap. Then I woke up and for the first time since it all happened felt at peace and the guilt was gone.

I've told a couple of people about this and they think it's all my imagination...

if it is my imagination, I'm ok with that because at least I gave myself some closure...but, I thought I would just throw it out to you here and see what you think...

--Lisa

[watershield]

Sounds to me as though you have now been given the opportunity by your friend to say good bye the way you wanted to.

[sul]

Hi Lisa, I believe your doggie came to you in spirit. I had this happen to me with a rescue dog that was my soul mate. We had to have him put to sleep when he was only about 8 years. He was part Doberman part Lurcher and he ran like the wind. However the Doberman breed carries a high risk of heart trouble and his gave out and he had cerebal 'knockoff. A week or so after his death he came to me in my dreams and put his head in my lap(as he used to ) and looked up lovingly with his big soulful eyes as if he was trying to tell me how much he loved me and not to be sad. This happened several times more but I know that it was a spritual visitation - I felt so at piece afterwards and I love my boy to this day.

[wyrdkin]

Similar thing happened to me many years ago. I had to go to a surgery and in the time I was on the surgery table my cat felt it or saw it I don't know and he ranned on the road and died. He must have thought I was dead or something. But nevermind that I have one question. I don't know where to put it so remove it if it doesn't belong here. What does the dog mean in a dream? Any dog. I had a dream and i was lying in my bed and my dog jumped on the bed. But it had some new lines on his body like someone painted him. Than later comes another dog which was pretty big and I've never seen it before. And after him a few more smaller dogs. I know animals have meanings in a dream but i don't know what the dog means.

[watershield]

Generally, by itself, To see a dog in your dream, symbolizes intuition, loyalty, generosity, protection, and fidelity.

But it depends on what the dog is doing, biting, barking, running, burying something. You have to put the events into context to see what a dream might mean.

[wyrdkin]

Both of the dogs just jumped on the bed but the first one started licking my face like he was happy to see me and the other layed down next to me and put his head on my chest. And so did the other small dogs that came after him. All were happy and they jumped up and layed down around me.