Dream: Of Wind and Deer

I was at my mom’s, but we were living in our old house (my aunt’s house). We were cleaning in the garage and there was a really strong wind that blew in and lifted me right off my feet. If I concentrated, the wind became stronger until I was lifted to the rafters. I called to my mom to look, and she kind of laughed, but it wasn’t a big deal.

Later we were looking out at the backyard, but I’m not sure from where, because it was higher than the house and I couldn’t see any windows. I saw a deer in the backyard, a fawn, back by the fence under the pine trees

. After a few moments, I saw the body of the deer’s mother on the other side of the fence, a bloody wound on her throat where she’d been shot.

I didn’t understand how someone could just kill something like a deer and then just leave it in the sun to bloat and rot. To kill for the sake of killing was a blatant cruelty to me, but knew that whoever had shot it wouldn’t think of him/herself as cruel, thinking instead that s/he was a good shot. The fawn walked around the yard, nibbling at this or that. I began to wonder how it had gotten on this side of the fence, but now it seems like one side was for those with physical bodies and the other for those without.

I wondered if the fawn would need someone to take care of it if it was going to make it.