I'm not sure you could call this dream reoccurring, since it is never the same. Only one element remains each time, running on all-fours. I have been having dreams similar to this for ... I'd say at least six years, maybe more. I haven't kept an exact count. I do keep a dream journal. And since I'm fascinated with dreams, I do quite a bit of dream interpretation. This one has me stumped as far as interpreting, but I highly enjoy it every time:) Anyone out there care to give it a shot?
Here's last night's dream:
I was in the parking lot of my old high school. The old building has long since been torn down and a new one built on the same site. In this dream, construction was still going on. I had been walking around, not sure why. I remember needing to get inside before they closed.
I took off on all fours, running through the grass and clay. This is the first time in a dream like this that I've gotten my hands dirty. When I stopped in front of the door, obviously the girl inside looked at me funny. LOL I mean, I'd just been running full out like an animal across the grass. I held up my hand and said, "I need to wash my hands. Can you let me inside?"
She did. I washed my hands and she quickly locked me out. hahaha The next thing I know I'm in a mall. Don't remember ever being in this mall before, but it had nice carpet:) I couldn't seem to get where I wanted to go fast enough. So, in front of everyone I started running on all-fours again. I didn't get nearly as many strange looks as I'd expected.
Then, I woke up. The thing that always strikes me about these dreams is how good running like this feels on my hands. Always there is cool grass crunching underneath my palms, the wind in my face, and a sense of absolute freedom. It feels powerful, good, and free. I've never ran in a building before, until this dream. I enjoyed the carpet, but not nearly as much as wet grass.
If anyone has seen the new Wolverine movie, in my dreams I run exactly like Sabertooth. So, when I saw the movie, I didn't have to imagine what that would feel like, I know. Yes, my hair grows really fast and I do feel drawn to Wolverine. But that's beside the point.
Does anyone have any clue what this reoccurring element to my dreams, or this dream in particular might mean? Like I said, it's been going on for a long time.
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Hello!
I found your blog while looking for an answer to my own dreams of "running on all fours." I was interested that someone else was also having these dreams. I have finally found the answer to them. Type "dreams of running on all fours" into your search engine. It will return not only your blog but some pretty interesting sites about it.
Basically I am reading that this type of dream signifies that you are working through a great challenge in real life. You are going to achieve a difficult wish or goal. It's interesting because I sometimes have this dream where I am flying and when I land I run on all fours. Also have been known to run on all fours and then launch into flying.
I am also a writer. I am finishing up what I hope will be my first published novel. It is my dream to be a published author. I think the dream is spot on, because becoming a published author is a challenging wish. However, I am up to that challenge.
Also, I absolutely love the feeling of power in the dream of running. Don't you?
Anyway...google it and you will be surprised at the number of people reporting the same type of dream.
A lot of people are having this dream. Its so creepy. I think I run on all fours once a night in my dreams and its pretty recent. I cant wait until I get over this challange and can actually start running upright again (even if it is in slow motion)
I have the dream too. Humanity is confined by what they know and not what they feel. We are animals and its intuitive to run this way. Those of us who do experience a primal strength and freedom others can't even dream of literally. We aren't a new type of species. Quite the opposite in fact. Very old indeed. Lycanthropy is more than a mental illness. It is a mentality and physical reality.
Yea it's like running on two legs in the dream world just aint quick enough so I 'take to primal instinct' running on all fours, I have to say there is quite a freedom felt thing going on whenever I have these dreams. I would strongly recommend to anyone experiencing these types of dreams to keep some sort of log or 'Dream Journal' remembering your dreams takes some skill, one way to start is as soon as you wake before you do anything, have your book ready to write anything at all you can remember from your dream. I found that bits randomly sometimes come to me throughout the day, but apparently reality and 'imagination' are processed in the same part of the brain so....
Checkout Robert Fludds, and research lucid dreams
Great recommendations:) I also keep a dream journal, have for years. Not only does it help me analyze and re-live dreams like this, I get good ideas for books there too.
It amazes me how many hits this post continues to get:)
i too dream of running an all fours. i think it is becouse it ties to our primal instinct. they say we were all another kind of animal in a past life so mabey we are remembering things from our past life when were asleep. running upright feels slow and awkered but put your hands on the ground grab the earth and use it to pull yourself along and youll go really fast.
I had this same dream last night it felt natural apart from the very high jumps I was making I don't know if it means anything about a challange in my life or linked to my primal instincts but I had the same dream where I was on all fours attacking a band of hunters? Any ideas on that have searched a lot?
I'm not sure about the attacking hunters part. Maybe you feel very strongly about protecting the innocent, like animals? It's only a guess. ;)
Wow. I am stunned. I jumped online to get an answer to what I thought was a crazy dream. Yet to my surprise I find that many other people have the same dream. Running on all fours. Feeling the ground scrunch up in the palms of my hands. My shoulder muscles tightening up as the power of my arms, pulling on the earth, launches me forward. The speed with which I can move is intoxicating. I vault over logs with ease and push off of trees and bounders for extra speed. It doesn't matter where I'm running or why; I just have to push myself to my limits, then go beyond. I don't know why I'm having these dreams but I cannot wait for another.
For many years now I been having the running on all fours.....but up to this day I yet to find an answer. I can tell you this much at first I thought wth but now I just know that Im leaning towards streingh & destination in my life. Its funny the was a time that I dislike wolf & now I can't get enough of them lol weird but true.
Whenever I run in my dreams, I always run on all fours, when I run on two legs it's like it's in slow motion and I'm being dragged back, but when I run on four legs, I run very fast, faster than normal, and there's this sort of feeling of power and freedom that comes with it. I've been having dreams where I run like this for around two years now.
It weird how many people have these dreams of runing on all four legs. I had two dreams where i run on all four legs, but the second one i am nude. In the dreams i am scared and i am trying to escape from someone whom wants to kidnap me and it always a man. I also seem to pul myself from the ground, in order to increase my speed and i do get to escape.
I find that it is a primal desire to get in touch with ones animalistic desires such as exercise or changing your diet if it is unhealthy. If you smoke maybe slow down or quit. The primal need to live longer and survive is there. Plus the desire to travel to move on your own feet instead of being caged to a house or a car, but that is just my interpretation of it
I have had a dream like this but it took place on a grassy hill at night with a blue moon and dark blue sky across from me I could see this old man with white hair who was on a narrow muddy road which was down the hill, and he was holding a torch on his right hand and next to a horsecarriage I was of course on all fours and managed to see him while I was sprinting at incredible speeds like a cheetah, this of course made me feel like I was free and basically felt like what I dog feels when he sticks his head out of a window, maybe even better, but one thing is certain in this dream I felt free with no boundaries, but in real life I am stuck inside my house taking care of my sister every day nowhere to go no friends that can visit, but one day I will have this feeling of freedom and it will be AWESOME
I've been having these types of dreams for years and never bothered to look up what it meant till today. I’m so surprise to see so many people having these kind of dreams. Whenever I have these kinds of dreams I always get this feeling of freedom and power. In the dream it's mostly always night-time and they feel so real at times that it’s scary. I sometimes wake up remembering how the grass and trees smell like and how the atmosphere felt like in the dream, it’s really hard to explain. I normally start out in running on two legs for no good reason. I begin to feel the wind in my face and arms as I decide to go faster and use my hands to push myself forward and go really fast. Sometimes leaping in the air, running some more, and leaping again.
I just had this dream for the very first time last night. It was incredible. I know that I was in a hurry to get somewhere. I wasn't scared or anxious, I just wanted to get there as quickly as possible. (I think my destination was "home") It was a beautiful moonlit night. I believe it was in the town that I just moved to, 3 weeks ago. I was running on two legs in the empty street. The town is very hilly so I was running over hills and suddenly just launched into running on all fours. Although I didn't look at my arms and legs, it was obvious to me that I was no longer human because it would have felt awkward running that way with hands. The transition was incredibly smooth and I sped through town as some sort of canine or feline. I imagine a wolf or a mountain lion... Really one of the most awesome dreams I've ever had. I can't wait to sleep tonight!!
For me it's about running, escaping, and falling, the high jumps are amazing, and it's more impressive for me when it's a high fall because I don't think about it and i just jump, but I know I will land ok because i'm running in all fours, but as if I were a chimpance with all the strenght in my arms. So maybe for me it's about not being afraid, I know I tend to run away or hide from challenges.
I too dream I'm running on all fours, grabbing the grass and earth going faster and faster! It's exciting to be able to run that fast...but the dream always stops and I can't figure out why I was running in the first place. Also I feel really awkward at the fact that I started running on all fours and can't figure out what made me do that. Then I awake. Seems so strange that I stop myself before I wake up.
Just woke up from another one of these myself... They are ongoing but always welcome. I often encounter these three type of dreams. One where I'm doing zero gravity flips on earth somewhere and almost floating away. One of me jumping into a gust of wind and being blown up into the air like a feather or an umbrella and then my favorite, running on all fours. Almost feels like I'm a werewolf or a gorilla last night was kinda different actually as I started on all fours then went on only 2 hands and I could run faster on my 2 hands with stretched out arm then on my 2 feet. I could launch myself pretty much.
Wow!! I just can’t add anything else to what you described guys especially the part when you really feel your fingers grabbing thight the small structure edges on earth and using that to your favor to push yourself even faster! What a power. I always succeed to escape whenever i run on all fours . It’s been for years now and i just wonder why do we have the same dreams with almost the same details when none of us really experienced that in real life.
The thing about our animal ancestors could really have something to do with that or its just our affection for some animals and their power/speed when running? i don’t know ...
but i feel wild and unstoppable like a strong beast
I have this dream a lot.
I race a lot (5k, 10k, Half Marathon). In my dreams I am doing really well in the races by running on all fours. I am overtaking people. Nobody else is surprised to see me running on all 4s. I am beating top runners: I seem to be an invincible runner.
Omg it's like flying filling the ground and digging in and thrusting forward, touching ground and goin almost like you see a cheetah running but so exhilaration
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Well, I did dream on running on all fours too, and I interpret it as follows: I have received some much appreciated help in reaching my goal. This is definitely the meaning as I have employed a skilled person and we work together in harmony. My life is quite simple, so any changes will certainly bring new dreams. If you take off in flight while doing the all four thing, I guess you feel as if you accomplished your goal and that such a team that is loyal as dogs:) is what come out in your dream and why one dream of it. Im not a professional clairvoyant, but a natural piscean:)
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Bro check out my dream
man i was in my instute and with my past school friends and doing talk with them then suddenly i was running to a person on my 4 limbs he ran away then i was in my old house where i was born there were some tuition classes going on and with my another friends and i saw
That from balcony that the China has been fired up half of China is burnt by a huge fire oh man that was disgusting and then i met my grandpa's brother who had passed away approximately three months later
What the kinda dream is it can anyone tell me
But what about when you run on all fours and then start flying
I had the running along the ground dream for years as a child..pulling on the grass to make me be able to run..and go faster..
Nothing about it was freeing..always a panic where i MUST go faster to get away!
I am now 64 and had one thus morning..for the fiest time in decades!
Wow its really exciting to see that everybody is experiencing the same kind of dream of how it really feels good running by using hands because it really does gets slow with legs and something really scary is behind so used hands to grab on grass and moved faster as in my dreams.
Is it me or when you remember about these running on all fours dream....you ever just want to try it??? I for one am obsessed with this dream and the feeling it brings forth. The sensation of going really fast!! Sometimes I find myself pondering whether to try it or not. It probably feels weird because of the way we humans are built, but often I'd wish I could. I'd wager that it feels freeing. One dream I recall having that's associated with "running on all fours" starts with me running on an open field. I can't exactly place where I was but I remember looking ahead to a view of just flat ground or surface, like you see in a football field. I think I was because I remember seeing lights, bright lights facing me. I also remember feeling like I had to get away. I was running from something. I don't know specifically what. I knew that I was feeling desperate and for some reason also knew that running on my 2 legs wasn't enough. Then I started running on all fours. I felt my hands grab the ground like so and push off. That's when I was finally getting somewhere. It's weird because I've also had a few where it's either me running from something or at something on all fours. I wonder what this dream really means. I see people say it's because you're about to accomplish something big....but that's not how it feels. Not in real life either. but I do agree with the freedom part. It really does feel liberating.
I have the running on all fours dream approximately 10 times per year.
The feeling of speed and power is incredible. The tops of my arms and shoulders ache enormously as I grip the ground and pull it underneath me.
I, too, sometimes leap high into the air. At first I think woah!! I'm a bit too high up here, this is going to hurt, but then a feeling of calm relaxation comes over me, as if to say "it's OK, you've got this, we've done this hundreds of times" - and I land comfortably and take off sprinting on all fours again.
I have this dream in all kinds of settings and terrains but, by far the most frequent is I'm powering myself along a tarmac road, passing cars and people at a blistering pace. I can literally feel every groove, little stone, bits of debris in the road.
The dreams don't last very long, but they're by far my most memorable ones.
I've asked dozens of people if they ever have this dream, whenever the topic of dreams comes up, but they all look at me like I'm a weirdo, lol.
I am so glad you wrote this! I was searching for a reason for the same dream. I take off running on all 4's and grab the grass for traction-- it's so strange but it feels so natural. I am usually taking off to fly and then trying to get back down to Earth but can't. Dreams are so bizarre.
When I was much younger probably late 20s, I used to have this dream about running. This took place over a long period. At first it was like I was running in the neibourhood and then at the foot of the hill I found that dropping down on all four I could run faster. Then over time I changed the way I was running. Sort of 3 running steps and a bound and repeat. After a while this changed again. This time 3 steps and glide, still close to the ground, not high in the air. I remember one instance that I was gliding through a mall with people looking at me. All the while, during the dreams, I never felt like running away from something or running to get somewhere, it just was like for the enjoyment of it. I remember that during the day I get the urge to try it in reality, but the way we humans are built does not make it easy to run on all fours. It's interesting to read that many have similar dreams.
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