August 25th 2012, Cougar Bite

Dream Journal, Night of August 25th 2012.



*right now I have a lot of pain in my jaw and am encountering trouble in seeing a doctor, so the posts might not be as frequent and there is no video for this blog. I plan on continuing the Vlog portion as soon as I am in less pain. -Taylor

Cougar Bite.

Really neat dream, I liked this one a lot. Very detailed and nice bright lighting, bright but not painfully bright, just a nice glow to everywhere I went.

In my dream I found myself entering a building to go to the dentist, I had never been in that building before but knew where to go. I went to the fourth floor and walked into a lobby, my Mom might have been there but I know I didn't talk to her. I signed into the office and sat down on a chair. I saw my dentist come around the corner and he started talking to me, he told me he would be with me in a moment, he had to finish doing something with another patient. I told him that was totally fine, he asked how Boulder was and I told him I love it here. He had his children with him, who were all my age. They smiled at me as I talked to their Dad. He told me after he worked on me he was going on vacation to Puerto Rico. I told him that sounded like fun.
A nurse took me back to the area where the dental chairs were, she left me in a room sitting on a chair.
Here my dream changed, I now lost awareness of why I was at the dentist or where I was, now I saw some old friends of mine also hanging out in that area. Some how I felt like I was a senior in High School again.

I decide to leave after a while and walk downstairs and then outside. I am now in the back of a parking lot, only a few cars are there. The parking lot is next to a trail that went into the woods. The building I left is to my left as I look into the forest. I see my friend Ben's brother, I know him a little bit but not as well as I know Ben. We talk for a bit and make plans to hang out sometime soon. He walks down a trail behind the building to go home, I say goodbye and then notice there is a mountain lion sitting in the grass by the trail, he walks past and neither him or the mountain lion notice each other. I tell him to watch out there is a cougar near him, he faces the great cat and walks backwards slowly looking as big as he can. The mountain lion sees him and growls a little bit. Then the cougar sees me and comes towards me. (btw I love mountain lions, I would be terrified and honored to run into one in the wild but I think they are incredible/beautiful beats.) I back up and separate the Lion from me by moving behind a small car. I now know I am waiting for my Dad to pick me up in his car but he is late or I am early. The cougar now is running towards me and pounces. I dodge the cat and turn around. It bites me and jumps away, it doesn't hurt though but it surprises me a big deal.

 Then I see some co-workers I had back in Austin come out the back of the building. They say hi to me and I tell them to watch out there is a mountain lion near and it is messing with me. They are surprised but don't act safely and walk out in the open. The cougar jumps on one of my ex-co-workers and latches its teeth on her forearm. She states screaming, I run over to her and grab the cat's head. It claws me away and I get back up and hold its head again and yank the cat off her arm. The cougar left metal teeth still attached to her arm, it looked like the fake vampire fangs that people put in on Halloween only they were three times the size and stainless steel. I pull them off her and throw them to the ground.

She is thankful and glad she is alive, she thanks God she is here, I look at her arm and it has a scar where the teeth were that looks like a cattle brand in an oval, but you can see all the way through her arm.
She says that she will tell others about what happened to spread awareness about the dangers of wild animals and to give them there space in the wild. I now somehow have the scar on my forearm and she doesn't, I told her I would bare the burden and pain for her until it had healed. I walked off and my dream ended.



That was the dream. I still love mountain lions even though I was attacked, those cats often appear in my dream. I have had at least 5 dreams with mountain lions in them this year and it is only August.
Thanks for reading.

-Taylor