Okay so, I'm pretty new here and this is my first post ever! *woot* but there is something that I experienced that has stuck with me ever since.
It starts off when I was about in grade 9 and I started researching more about spirit guides. I wanted to meet my spirit guide, I had always known that they were there, from the time I was little. So, one day I sat in my room and began to meditate and loose myself within my mind, as I did so I called upon my spirit guide to present themselves to me in a dream or in some sort of way.
That night I went to bed and I dreamed that I was running through the woods, I felt like I was free, at peace. Then suddenly I noticed that there was a black wolf running along side of me. Once I woke up in the morning, I was dumbfounded that my guide had actually heard my call. Just after awaking I went to go take a shower and when I did I noticed that i had scratch marks going down along my chest. They did not hurt but it looked like I had been scratched by a dog, but a much larger dog than my own. To this day I still don't know if those scratches was a sign from my spirit guide or if it was just something that I did in my sleep.
Either way it is was an experience that has ment a lot to me.

~Xori~

Hmmm, very interesting Xorrrii.
My guess from reading this is that when you woke up, even though you had these marks you weren't feeling scared or anything because you were judging that these marks were from your spirit guide, right?

I'd say as long as you felt content with this "touch" then there really was and still is nothing to worry about.

Yesh, I was not scared about these marks at all and was quite relieved that my spirit guide actually gave me a sign that I could see for myself even when I was awake.

I would be very concerned with that experience.

Guides are not in the business of harming their charges. No matter if your guide is a wolf or not, it would not physically harm you.



I would say either it was something else coming through, or you unwittingly did it to yourself.

Thats the thing though, it didn't hurt me at all. They were red marks as if i had been scratched across the chest but they didn't break the skin or hurt or anything...I dunno...it was strange.

Welcome to UM...I have no idea whether this is your spirit guide or not....Some people believe that their spirit guide is assigned to them from birth and should only be called upon in times of need...Also, spirit guides are usually relatives that have passed over..I could be mistaken, but Native American's call their spirit guides, "totems", most of which are animals, and they are the protectors....The wolf totem symbols are: Intelligence, Cunning, Communicative, Friendliness, Loyalty, Genorisity and Compassion....

Okay, but guides don't mark you.

It still smacks of something else entirely.

I used to, but have not lately, "knock on wood" wake up with scratches all the time on my body.I am pretty sure I was just scratching my self somehow.The scratches were just like the ones you have described. I also tend to grind my teeth in my sleep pretty bad sometimes.I can't explain why I do this.

However I have had pretty powerfull dreams of what I took to be a spirit guide, which for me was a horse.The dream had an old native american man in front of a fire who showed it to me, and out of the darkness came a horse, the horse stomped on a serpant and killed it.I had alot of symbloic dreams like that at that time in my life.