I often have dreams lately of a man, whom I haven't met in real life. He is somehow ordinary, an old hippie, perhaps, 50-55, with long hair. Nothing very special about him. He always seems to be busy with something that makes him feel good- playing the guitar, making a fire, walking... Nothing that could disturb anybody. But this man shows to know much about me and about my future. Whenever I meet him in my dreams, he offers a soluтion to a problem, answers, or just tells something funny or interesting.
The first time I met him, was during a very dramatic stage in my life. I was diagnosed cancer 3 years ago and should be operated immediately. He appeared in my dream the night before the operation, humming a monotonous melody, and the only word in his song was err, err, err...I was operated anyway, and then the results came: the tumor was proved to be a superfluous structure in my body, but all it could cause was pain (pressing certain nerves). Nothing lethal, nothing too serious. The doctors had diagnosed me in error to be very seriously ill. You can't imagine what relief it was to me.
He started appearing very often in my dreams these days and I wonder what the reason might be. I asked him last night who is he, and the answer was "I keep you whole." No more info about him. He gives ideas, shows me strange and unusual things in the dream, but doesn't speak about himself.
I feel that I owe some respect to him, that's why I'm writing this. And I'm interested to know whether any of you have such characters in their dreams. May be they represent some part of our wiser self, but whatever they are, they deserve our recognition and acceptance.