Last Tuesday I woke up sweating. Had this wild dream about a horse charging at me. Felt weird all morning, like my guts were twisted. Figured, eh, maybe I ate bad tacos. But it happened again Thursday night. Same horse, same thundering hooves. Enough. Decided to dig into this muggy brain stuff myself.
The First Stumble
Grabbed my laptop around 7 PM, coffee cold beside it. Typed “horse dream meaning” like a dummy. Boom – ten million sites screaming at me. “Horses mean FREEDOM!” one yelled. Another claimed “IT’S SEXUAL ENERGY!” Felt like the horse kicked me in the head. Closed the tabs. Too much shouting. Brewed fresh coffee instead.
Actually Doing Something
Friday morning, I grabbed my dusty journal. Remembered this dream analyst saying: “Write your dream down. Fast.” So I did. Didn’t care about spelling. Just threw the images onto paper:
- Big brown horse, muscles rippling
- Dust flying, sound like thunder
- Running straight AT me
- Woke up right before it hit
Stared at it. What did I feel writing it? Scared? Yeah. Powerless? Sure. But… something else. Weird thrill? Like, the horse wasn’t evil. Just unstoppable.
The Pattern Hunt
Next week, I actually looked back at the notebook. Saw something. Every time that horse showed up? Was always the day after a big work deadline. The crushing deadlines. The ones where I felt like a tiny bug about to be stomped. Huh. The horse wasn’t just some random symbol vomited by my brain. It was my stressed-out, cornered feeling – turned huge and loud and charging.
My Takeaway? Stop Googling Symbols
Learned the hard way: dream dictionaries are junk. Your nightmare horse ain’t mine. What matters is what happens in YOUR life when the dream pops up. What feelings stick to you when you wake up? Mine was pressure – that deadline avalanche feeling. The horse? It was my brain’s super ugly, super strong way of shouting: “DUDE! YOU FEEL TRAPPED!” This ain’t science. It’s just paying stupidly close attention to the garbage my head churns out at 3 AM.
