HELP ME PLEASE dont know what to think of it

[SameDream]

Ok back ground info on me.
I am part native American and i have been an outdoorsy adventurist all my life.
Now for what i need help on.
I have been having a reoccurring dream for the last 3 years, it started out with just being bits and peaces of the entire dream but now it has been completed for the last 2 years. i wold have it at times every night for a month and then i wouldn't have it for a month and then i wold have it again. OK now for my dream.

it all starts in a forest/ dense tree area but above the trees, then being in a view i start moving towards the edge of the forest where there is a cliff that has a massive straight down drop to the water below. and on the cliffs edge is me not wearing anything but a skin flap covering my front and back. and i am looking out at the full moon above the horizon of the ocean, then my view changes to actually being myself and i hear a noise in the bushes behind me and i turn but i am weary cuz i dont know what it is and then i hear the growling of an animal and a HUGE White wolf walks out into the clearing about 20 feet away from me <and the wolfs size is up to my chest and i am 6'4"> so i am staring at the wolf and im not scared at all im actually having a feeling of being welcomed. then the wolf starts to walk towards me and starts to turn into a Black wolf of the same size but its eyes have changed to humanistic eyes and it keeps walking towards me and then it starts to walk up right and turns into a native American body with the black wolfs head instead of a normal head but the eyes are still human and not animal. and the wolf has long black hair to his waste. by the time it turn to its new form it was nose to nose with me and it starts to growl lowly and its eyes look into mine and there is a shock of realization in them and then it shoves me off the cliff and i am falling for it feels like a minute and then i turn over to see the water below me and there is a naked girl falling in front of me and i speed up and grab her and when i turn her over to see who it is a blinding white light hits and then im still falling with her in my arm and some how i feel that right before i hit the bottom at the water that i take a deep breath and yell at the water with all my might and all the water moves away and i gently touch the ground with he girl in my arm and i look up and yell again but it isnt my voice anymore it is a howl and the view changes and it is me holding the girl with the white wolfs head as mine and im howling at the top of the cliff. and then i look straight at my self in the dream and i see my eyes where animal ones should be on the wolf but they are still not the same as the black wolfs.
then i wake up when i see the same realization in the eyes of my self as the black wolf head did.

So can anyone help me i have had it over 300 times.

[Pathfinder 6]

I would look first at your tribal legends and folklore, then at your own association to wolves. This strikes me as something like a rite of passage. Also as an essentially positive one.

[SameDream]

i know where my tribe originated and i know i am part of the wolf clan of Cherokee but i dont know any folk lore for the tribe.

[Pathfinder 6]

Okay, that you're a member of the wolf clan is certainly no coincidence here. I'm about as Anglo/Irish as they come and know little of the Cherokee, but I'm sure there are online sites. I'm strictly guessing; but what resonates with me is tbat this dream signifies your passage to full, adult male membership in the clan; and may in fact indicate you should look into that side of your heritage.

[SameDream]

i have never thought of it that way and i have gone online to tribe sites and get no where i cant find anyinfo on interpreting dreams and symbols

[Pathfinder 6]

If it comes down to it, I think your experience of this dream is probably a lot more important than any line-by-line interpretation of it; but I noticed in a quick google search that the wolf clan are the "protectors," and you certainly protect the woman in your dreams from the consequences of a fall!
And, by the way, I don't think the purpose of the dream is to "turn you into an Indian." My own experience is that dreams seldom if ever want us to give something up; but they very often want us to broaden out, to learn about parts of ourselves we either deny, repress or pay little attention to. This is an opinion only - the only dreams I can interpret authoritatively are my own, and that seldom enough - but I think if you look back over the Cherokee part of your heritage, without denying or degrading the rest of it, the dream will come to make more sense.

[SameDream]

i have tried and it is very hard to get in contact with anything or attaining any info and one thing in the dream i forgot to mention was there was a lighting storm out over the water below the moon going from right to left like a fog.

[Pathfinder 6]

OK, here are some thoughts. In the end, though, it's your own interpretations that count. (Unless you spend the kind of money it takes for a psychoanalyst; and even then you're likely to find out more about his psyche than yours.)
1. The wolf shifts from white to black to show that it is the wolf spirit or wolf totem. (Wolves can be white, black, gray or brown, and different shades of those two, so black and white incorporate the extremes and anything in between.)
2. You feel it is friendly because in fact it is. In the dream world, you can't assume that animals are like those in the waking world. In a dream, a grizzly may be your best buddy. (I remember a dream where my best friend was a rat.)
3. Shape-shifting is pretty normal in dreams. To my mind, the shift into human, Native American form pretty much pins down the "wolf clan" tie-in.
4. Pushing you is your initiation. It knows the fall is not going to hurt you; but you have to learn that. (It goes without saying that this is not true here in the waking world.)
5. That the woman is naked emphasises that she is "unprotected" and vulnerable. You both protect and rescue her.
6. Soft landings from falls are not uncommon in dreams. I've even had some where I set up an approach to land into the wind.

Dreams put you in an interesting situation. They're little plays where you're the male lead; but nobody gives you a script. Dreams love sight gags and plays on words (the wolf/man thing again.)
Hope this helps.
By the way, do you feel this dream has changed you in any way? If so, it may have done so without being interpreted at all. I'll say it again: sometimes the experience of a dream is more important than the understanding of it.

[SameDream]

thank you for all the help