how_do_you_snarl Photophobe smouldering Do you have a muzzle, like a wolf or bear? Or can I learn to snarl, with practice? I wish I knew how. 020702 ... Steals the sky I think people snarl differently than animals. Most people who are specifically trying to snarl don't come across as being threatening at all. 'Course, if you get mad enough you might find yourself snarling without even realizing it..... 020702 ... onemorebumpintheroad i had a dream once. the only dream i never completely believed to be a dream. i Felt things. i don't think pain is the sole sensation left out of dreams. all pain seems to be absent, although most don't realize until they wake, as well as taste for me. so i had this dream, and i was a wolf. i was fighting another wolf for something instinctual; food, mate, territory, whatever....i don't remember. all i remember are the sensations. i knew it wasn't a dream because i hadn't always been a wolf, and i could Feel the difference. i felt the difference in 4 legs as opposed to 2, i felt the difference in my stance, the way my muscles bunched, everything. every slight change i Felt. and by that i mean really Felt not dream-felt. i still feel that if i think about it... just like any one of you with sense of feeling could recall the texture of a smooth stone or petting a cat. you could recall with the clarity of experience which is just a step or two below what you can reach out and Feel/experience now. there is a difference. i could Feel the difference of paws vs. hands, and my strength... that was, i think, the main Feeling that put me in awe. i was so strong. that strength gave me confidence in my dream, and i won the fight with the opposing wolf. i will never forget that dream, and i've only had one other similar. in that, i was a horse. and if this comes across as silly, so be it. i don't really expect anyone to understand or believe. but i know in my heart that it was not just a dream. it had something to do with shapeshifting, and i never truly believed in that until the first dream. honestly. the horse i have realized to be my first [i think] totem spirit in my adolescent days, while the wolf is present. while the wolf dream may have derived from my intense love for the animal, i have not given serious thought to horses for years, and that thought came long after the wolf. whether you believe it or not is not relevant, but i truly hope some, if not all, of you experience this. for days afterward i felt this different strength and energy running through me. i've never gotten this particular high from dreams or drugs. i believe it was unique in fact. even with the horse dream things were not so intense. memories were not so precise, colors were not so bright....i even had to kind of get used to/adapt to my human muscles again. after one short dream. it continues to fuck with my head. i can still recall the feeling, and the dream happened at least 2 to 5 years ago. that's impact. i believe i at the very least felt the difference between man and animal. the difference between all the baggage we carry for our 'superior intelligence and pure instinct. i snarl with the wolf within me. he teaches me what we are too 'advanced' to see. 020708 what's it to you? who go blather from