Wow, You really hit a lot in there and all of it true to my situation. I do have emotional stuff (especially from my past that is coming to the fore recently), I am currently in a relationship that is deep (emotional) and we are going through a hard time because we are both in school and I am almost complete so I will be leaving and we will be half the country away from each other until he finishes. He is afraid to lose me and he is pulling away and it gets to me emotional because I love him so much and I am worried I will lose him too. I know he truly loves me but he has been abandoned by people and so have I. I know we are both trying to deal with this but we are so scared and it has been putting a damper between us recently. I am also having difficulties in other relationships (with my mom and the lack of relationship with my father which is starting to become more evident because of the current relationship I am in). I usually am delicate and diplomatic but I don't really know what assertive means I can use and not risk losing him (I am thinking this dream probably has a lot to do with my current relationship problems) and I know that the emotional ups and downs are putting a strain on me.

The only real association I have in my waking with frogs is my sister, Eryn, but we are really close. She is also going through relationship problems with her husband and the intense emotions I have about my boyfriend are extremely similar to Eryn's and it's almost like we have mirror relationships, except mine is a couple years behind her's.

I can't figure out the 'three' in my waking life, although I have always felt that number is sacred (at least to me). I have two sister (three daughters) all of us born within 14 months of each other (we are Irish and from what my mom tells me considered Irish Triplets because our births are so close together). I am in my 3rd serious relationship and it's the first one where I feel truly connected and truly in love and wonder if he is The One, I love him very much and I know he has strong feelings for me. But I have always viewed three as something of a sacred number to me.

Thank you for your analysis, the dream totally baffled me and I tried to look up means but wasn't getting anywhere, so thank you so much!

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Lexi,
I do appreciate the response. It is always difficult to understand a dream of a younger person and your response lends itself to the better understanding of such dreams. You seem to have a lot of 'accumulated baggage' already in your life {something an older person has and a younger person does not}. Such baggage is more easily identified and easier to interpret than the personal waking experiences most young people's dream focus on.

Your Response and How that Plays
The three would be a strong emotional number you associate with but with good reason. The three sisters, the 3rd serious relationship, to go with with your identification with the number 3 as being scared. The Luna Moth explanation I suggested {"If you the type person who uses 'delicate/diplomacy' methods to resolve conflicts"} does seem to be fit with your personality and your response {"I usually am delicate and diplomatic"}. Dreams often 'betray' personality traits.

As for the frogs, they may symbolically represent you and your sisters. This could represent the 'embedded' experiences/associations/traits the 3 of you share. There are stingers when you pull 'one' of them out which could represent emotional pain. The sucking of blood is a common symbol for 'sucking of the emotional energies out of a person'. When ever we get into the deeper emotional aspects of the dreamer's psyche { and the deeper issues that many dreams try to address} we can look to mythology to get some idea of what a symbol may represent {myths and dreams share much of the same universal symbols, what Jung called archetypes, and they sometimes appear in our dreams to represent an emotional association}. The 'Frog Prince' is a common mythological story and there may be associations to that theme to go with a fear of losing your prince. But if the fairy tale and your life are examined in greater detail there may be even more important associations.
Strangely, the language of the tale goes like this, "The story of the Frog Prince tells of a young woman who is visited on three consecutive nights by a frog. Symbolic reference to the frog is often this:
'a part of your psych that still lies buried in the unconscious; the Frog Prince motif where the frog represents the unconscious which at first sight is frightening but, when assimilated by the conscious ego, reveals itself for what it is - the total psyche, beautiful and true.' (Joseph Campbell).

Perhaps teh emotional attachment to this '3rd' relationship is being reinforced in the dream, which would be a positive. Consciously, which is subservient to the biased ego emotions, you feel this 3rd relationship is 'THE ONE'. Unconsciously, which is not subservient to ego bias, that would be true also. Or at least reinforcing the strong emotional attachment you have with this 3rd guy in your life.

As for masculine traits. Often such traits, or lack of them, are addressed as something you do not possess and either need to build upon, or something you need to accept and find other means to combat the lack of the quality. The compensation of a lack of one quality would need to be realized. Not that it a negative aspect but so to understand why you act or feel one way or another.

Once again when we look at a dream and the emotional life of the dreamer we see the truths that underlie the personality. This is what your dream is doing, trying to elevate those aspects about yourself that are in emotional conflict so you will better understand them. By doing that you are better prepared to resolve the conflicts. This is the therapeutic aspect of the dream at work.

One of your conflicts seems to be the death of the Moth which would represent a fear of the death of the 3rd relationship. Past experiences, the end of the first two relationships, help shape who you are {especially at your young age}. The death of the Moth, the beauty of a love relationship, is what the dream depicts. But the frog, as in the frog prince, suggest there is that true romance you have discovered. Put this with all the other emotional aspects in your life, the three sisters which would be addressing possible emotions of shared abandonment, then you may realize other associations in the dream with your waking life.

Jerry