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I believe that most of our dreams are meant to be feedback to the dreamer. They let us know how we are progressing psychologically or spiritually. As part of this type of interpretation, I believe that many dream symbols are mythological or religious in nature. I also use the methods of Carl Jung as appropriate.

In this dream, you are in a Latin country. It sounds like this country is not your home country. A Jungian often interprets a journey to a foreign land as a journey into the unconscious.

There is an arena. If the arena is circular, this may be significant. A circle is often a symbol of an archetype called the self.

The people who are watching the events in the arena might actually be entities who are independent of the dreamer. However, they could instead be parts of the dreamer; they would be symbols of archetypes from the dreamer’s psyche. .

There is a sorrel horse with a large red bull strapped onto his back. The actual animals as well as their colors are probably important. The horse and the bull are associated with the first chakra. Additionally, it sounds like the horse is a copper-reddish color while the bull is red. I usually associate the color red with the first chakra. As a little side note, there is a mythological animal that is half horse and half bull. It is the bonnacon. BONNACON: (ASIA) | American Monsters

You go back to the arena on the second day.

You watch as a friend who is about half your size is gored. It could be that this has a shamanistic symbolism. If this is the case, death from the animal would mean that animal elevates whoever it kills and the animal becomes the guide/helper/protector in the dreamer’s journeys to the underworld. As for the small size of the friend, this probably means that this archetype is still developing. Thus, it could be that his death will, paradoxically, help in his development.

The bull attempts to gore the dreamer. This may mean that the dreamer’s ego is sufficiently developed so that it does not need the elevating death – not too sure about this.

The bull is unstrapped. The head trainer twists the horse’s left leg as punishment. This is probably significant. Activity in the left foot or leg is a symptom of kundalini. Biology of Kundalini - Symptoms List

There is also a woman in black and another woman who is dressed in gray. The colors of the clothing of two ladies are noteworthy. The color black is associated with the feminine, the unknown and the unconscious. Thus, black is associated with the lower realms and the ability to travel to the realms. As for the color gray, I almost always associate gray with the gray-matter of the brain and the spinal fluid. Thus, gray is associated with kundalini. From this we see that both the colors black and gray are very positive.

The word Mattanza seems to be related to this dream. The slaughter of the tuna is like the deaths of the people (and possibly the animals) at the arena.

The ritual in the arena has some religious/spiritual symbolism. The blood that becomes wine reminds me of the Christian ritual of communion. In the Christian communion, the Christian drinks the wine in order to become a part of Jesus Christ. The communion wine seems to have the effect of spiritually strengthening the people who drink the wine. In an analogous manner, the dream-people who drink the blood-wine become stronger and become parts of those who died.

Summarizing –
The power of the first chakra is being used by the dreamer to develop those abilities needed to journey to the lower world of the unconscious. The deaths of the people are probably making them stronger and more developed. They will be transformed and reborn with more power. Likewise for those who drank the blood-wine. It strengthens them and the people who died.

Hope this helps,
Lugus