I haven’t had a true “Gerry dream” until last night….I was sleeping in my parent’s house, and was staying in my childhood bedroom. In my dream I woke up and he was lying next to me. “Who let you down here? I didn’t hear them come in. How did you get down here?” my dream self thought….and then at another point he was there again and I asked him if anyone had let him “out” in a while and he started hopping around to indicate “NO” and I looked to see where his leash was and I couldn’t find it, and told myself he’d be fine with out it…..and then he was lying limp in my arms….I don’t care that it ended that way….I got to really pet him last night..which sounds so pathetic, I realize, but if you’ve gone through this, then you’ll know it, was nothing short of a miracle. If only I could still smell that fur behind his ears that I kissed all the time. Thank you for being in my dreams this morning boy. You are SUCH a good boy.
Got a few tears…happy tears flowing over here…along with goosey bumls head-to-toe! 🙂
The “feelings” we get from dreams is supposed to enhance the “specifics” of the dream. I can only imagine the comfort and connection you must have felt!!
This is such a beautiful dream. Make sure, if you haven’t already, to write it down, along with yiur feelings…in the dream and upon reflection.
Okay, I can’t help muself! I just have to express what jumps out to me….and it may be entirely different from what you are experiencing! ENTIRELY DIFFERENT!
Of course you didn’t”hear” him come in, or know how he “got there”. He’s always been next to you, just waiting for you to notice!
Didn’t need the leash. You were his caregiver for all his life, and much more intensely since his “tripawd journey”. He’s now completely healthy and whole and FUREVER SAFE FROM HARM!!! And he just showed you he is ALWAYS connected to you, with or, without a leash 🙂
As soon as I read he “melted I fo your arms”, to me that was such a lovely “feeling”. He is soooo mich a part of you….soooo at peace and soooo relaxed about everything……his “being” just melted into your “being”. His energy and your energy merged into one.
In your childhood home I would think represented a loving place…..just like the home you provided for Gerry…a loving and safe place.
Thank you for sharing this with is and for letting us join in on the joy! And for allowing me the fun of analyzing it from my perspectives…which doesn’t matter at all…itsw your perspective that counts! 🙂
Lots of love dear friend
Sally and Alumni Happy Hannah and Merry Myrtle and Frankie too!
One more crazy thought…..wonder if there is any “message” in the dream about….hmmm….being more and more open to a dog Gerry might be sending your way…sooner than you think….hmm…….
That is such a beautiful dream, as bittersweet as it was. He was definitely sending you some kind of sign. Like, “Look Mom, I don’t need a leash, I am so free but always connected to your heart.”
I often have dreams about our own Jerry. They always make my day so much more meaningful.
My bodacious boy always gave my lips the gentlest nibble with his teeth at the same time I was getting a big slurp (did I allow it? Are you kidding? It was heaven). When I dreamt of him recently – before bed I always say a little prayer that he’ll come for a visit – we held on to one another as if we’d never let go, I inhaled his wonderful scent (yes, that lovely buttery smell of his ears), and we smootched and smootched. “Here you are!! Oh, you’re here, you’re here!!!” “I’ve been right here all along, Mom, all along, I’ve never been anywhere else”. Laughing and crying, bathed in bliss to actually be holding my darling pup once more, “Oh dear GOD I have missed you!!”. It was so real. So, so real. And I woke up with chapped lips. Mmm. Oh, Thank You!!!