hi T. I don't know that animals retain individuality in that linear sense. possibly. there are some stories of heroic dogs which saved a human's life progressing ahead spiritually above other average dogs. have heard stories about they have a group soul pattern and merge into their group advancing or evoluting that way. maybe theres some truth in both points of view; I just know nothing dies that has lived and can be found out there.
my daughter visits in dreams her cat too. in a way, this particular cat helped to save her life by it's behavior, informed my daughter she had a psychotic boyfriend living with her. first he wanted to kill the cat, later he let on clues how easy it was for him to kill her. me and my other daughter one day moved the man out as swiftly as possible. if the cat hadn't yelled as much as it did, my daughter was blinded by love, and would never have avoided this man; only she loved her cat more. her and the cat have a terrific bond and have reunions from time to time as it did die of old age, it's in the astral now, healthy as can be. I'm sure these bonds are unbreakable, of love and you will rejoin what you love.

I think the past is going on now, so I can't answer your question about animal souls being attached to you life to life but anything is possible. I do know that human spirits would be able to influence an animal briefly, to deliver messages what not.

take care, alysia

Thanks laffingrain!!

You are a kind soul.

Hi everyone! I've been having a great time reading and responding to threads today...so I figure, while on a roll.......I absolutely have enjoyed this thread,and think there have been such intellignet, and informative replies..and things I'll put into my little box of spiritual "tools"...speaking of, I too, have thought dreams to be extremely useful,and on so many levels!

Laffingrain, as has happened many times, I've been able to relate to so much you wrote, and specifically the wetting the bed "dream", that felt so real! I did that too! And I confess, it happened twice after that when I was small, and felt just as betrayed of the opportunity of being a "good girl"...I'm so glad you shared that, or I would never have recalled that! I've also kept dream journals on and off, and some I kept up for quite a while, and I still make note of any really powerful dreams...I have one that reoccured in childhood,around bed-wetting days....and I remember it as vividly as if I had it last night...

The dream started out very abruptly with myself, naked, sitting on my hands and knees on a metal table, a bare metal table, that was large enough to sit that way, but would have been too short to lay out flat. Something makes me look to my left, and to my surprise and amazement, there are twelve other metal tables exactly alike in a row to my left side...and stranger, there were 12 other little girls that were identical to me in every way, body, age, and the only difference was I was the only one looking to my side and noticing all the other tables and "selves". After this sinks in, I notice that there are these floating circular flat disk-like objects that would come to float at the other girl's tables...as I watched, one by one,the other girls(that were identical to myself) hopped onto the floating disks, to be carried away into some place I couldn't see, and then as one girl got off a table, another girl just like her replaced her, and so on...so I decided to look in front of my table, and sure enough, there was the disk, floating invitingly at my table,the tables and disks were like 3or4 feet off the ground or so,something was making me hesitate, but I finally, hopped onto the disk to be transported into what looked like a dark movie theatre.Then, I was being asked various questions, that always ended with the one ominous question,"Do you want the 'good one', or the 'bad one' ?" By this point in the dream, I'm feeling very nervous, b/c it then hits me I've been here before, and I desperately try saying,"The good one", but it's a question that dosen't care about the answer, b/c on the screen, was a child,a boy, around my age at the time, small, like 5or so...and for some unknown reason,he would start trying to pull out his own tongue, and eventually, it was a very bloody, terrible dream of mutilation , and the "movie" would play in color, and then in black and white...finally, after a long time of trying to get up and out of there, or to"wake", I would, in tears,and frightened to the bone...this dream I had over and over, for a few years, it's why I recall it so well...Usually I have some kind of insight to my dreams,but that one, even though I recall it so clearly, my mind still dosen't really come up with any strong suggestion as to what it really meant to me at the time...but Anyhow....

That is entirely enough out of me! I've also had the future dreams...but one thing about those, I can dream something that will happen the next day to the tiniest detail...but the catch is, it's not about any real significant events...they just seem like random snipets...ok...now time to sit back and enjoy more of everyone's posts, this is a great thread!...Tanja

Hi all! I've been getting so much out of this board again,simply by showing up, I know I say it alot, but despite some inevitble clashing of opinions or personalities(which I think is entirely normal, and even helpful for the opening of other ideas/options....etc..) I'm grateful that it's here, I've gained so much from so many people.

Thanks for your thoughts, Alysia, you are so awesome in the way that you are constantly giving of yourself,your thoughts, and energy to so many posters here, and I'm positive in all places, internet, or off line.You know, I wouldn't have thought too much about digging that dream back up for analysis, if I didn't read this thread...but I think you're right, about keeping it handy...already,some things popped into mind...another way dreams tell us things.

When you mentioned trauma, childhood trauma, it resonated strongly within me, b/c I had never considered the thought the boy was probably another aspect of myself...and in that case....maybe it was my mind attmepting to put things that might have been occuring at that time, out of my mind, and to never "talk" of it.It's interesting, b/c my childhood has several "blank spots"..in my memory...things are brought up even by friends from childhood, and so many times people are frustrated with how little I recall about being a kid...yet in general, the things I do remember are in vivid detail, or I don't recall at all...so I will keep that dream more available...b/c perhaps it's another clue to the puzzle I'm trying to sort out now.

It really impresses me how powerful dreams can be...how much worthy information can be found from analyzing our derams...and such value in sharing them with others who know something about dream interpretation. I'm also constatnly amazed at how much easier it might be to help someone else interpret a dream...and how hard it might be to interpret my own...lol..the apple on my own head again, is the most difficult to describe... It's why I think these forums are a real gift,and open up possibilities that might not have been considered before....Best wishes for all.....Tanja