Alright so a bit of background, this is a dream I had around 2 years ago when I was camping at a provincial park in Manitoba, Canada (Which is also where I live). I still remember it clearly as it felt important.

Interesting point - the few dreams I've had that have somehow felt "different" or significant always start by me waking up in the same environment I fell asleep in real life. This was one of them, I dream I wake up on the tent floor in the morning as if I was waking up normally.

So I wake up still half asleep and there is a creature standing next to me in the tent wearing a thick coat of brownish feathers that goes down to the ground and a deer skull head. (Note: I felt this was a person dressed like this like a kind of shaman or something, not an actual inhuman creature)

I am not scared and have a sudden feeling of greatfulness and respect, as if it's an honour to be visited by this man/creature. He doesn't say a word but hands me 3 objects:

- A piece of deer antler
(around the lenght of a ruler)

- A human hand
(this was a real flesh hand, but no blood and no feeling that it belonged to any person that had it chopped off or anything)

- A white quartz crystal (a couple inches long)

In the dream I remember these objects all had a specific meaning that this creature conveyed to me without speaking and I understood all of them, but when I woke up all I could remember was that the deer antler represented something good, the human hand something bad (I think I remember a sense of fear, like something bad would happen in the future) and the quartz a sort of neutral balance.

Then he left and I woke up for real in the tent, with a fealing of awe or greatfulness to have been visited by this shaman

I've thought about this dream a lot and even drew the creature, I've been trying to figure out or remember the objects' symbolism but no real success, so I thought I'd ask for opinions here


More info about me
- around 20 years old
- french canadian/métis cultural background
- religious beliefs complicated but open to many concepts
- I feel very connected to nature in general, collected feathers and animal bones since I was young, etc.
- I don't usually have dreams like this with clear object symbolism, this was odd