Polar Bear Dream

by Reina Young
(Halifax)

Well, my father just passed away about a year ago, and ever since then, I have been having this dream that I was out in the North Pole, and I was fishing, and i had seen a polar bear.

It started to run at me, I had a spear close to me so I grabbed it. I was just about to stab the bear, but the bear was too fast, and it jumped right on me. There I was, laying under the bears arm, when I looked into its eyes, I could see my father in its eyes.

I kept saying dad, dad, dad? The bear closed its mouth and made some odd noise, and then licked my face. I jumped up, and I started to walk with the bear (which I guess was my father in some way), and then while walking up a hill, I saw a bunch of hunters. We started to run together, I jumped on my dad's back. We were running, but the hunters caught up to us. The hunter ended up stabbing me in the chest, and my dad in the leg. I was dying, but then I started to change into a baby polar bear, and the only way I could see my dad again, was if I stayed a polar bear. so I ended up staying a polar bear. I keep having this dream every now and then. Any idea what that means? ( ps, if it means anything, bears are my favorite animal.)