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buddha:
I'm curious as to why people have gotten certain tattoo designs done.
When my Dad was dying of cancer in '90 I started having these dreams about a Grizzly Bear. I would always be in a different location and the bear would be after me. The locations were strange, once was on a riverboat like what used to run up and down the Mississippi River. In the dreams the bear never caught me but was relentless in chasing me and would, at some point, find someone else to kill. On the riverboat I had gone up into the ceiling in a room on the boat, the bear was tearing the door apart, and I was trying to pull a young girl up into the ceiling to get her away from the bear before he got in the door. She panicked as he was coming through the door and stopped trying to get away and just became dead weight. I tried to pull her up using just my own strength but the bear grabbed her and pulled her away from me and killed her right before my eyes. The look on her face as he got hold of her was upsetting for me because it was a look of sadness and resignation. She had reluctantly accepted her fate.
I was having this kind of dream every night and they continued on even after my Dad had died. I would wake up from these dreams in the middle of the night startled and not be able to get back to sleep for a while and was exhibiting extreme symptoms of sleep deprivation. I tried sleep aids, meditation, guided imagery for sleep, etc. Nothing worked. I had these dreams for a couple of years.
During this time I spoke to a friend of mine who is a Blackfeet Indian shaman from Montana. I asked him what, if anything, he thought I could do to abate the dreams. He told me that I had to make the bear my ally. I asked him how I would best accomplish that and he told me he had no idea.
One day I was sitting inadvertently meditating about the bear and it came to me to get this bear tattooed on my body so he would know that I was honoring him. I went that very day and made that peace offering to the bear by getting his vicious countenance tattooed on my upper right arm. That night, for the first time in two years, I did not dream about the bear and I have not had one of those dreams since.
That is the reason for the bear. I'm interested in reading about the reasons that some of my sly bros have for getting their ink.

tomgallagher:
You should let a screenwriter have a crack at that Buddha. Very interesting story.

Mikekoz13:
Man, what a great story Buddha!

For many years I had a of of bad luck in my life... a lot of it my own doing. Two failed marriages, a lot of unsatisfying relationships, you name it. Then after my second wife and I split I had a good serious sit down with myself. I looked long and hard at myself and what it was that had caused me so many problems in my life. it basically came down to a lot of bad choices.... too much drinking, too much softball, too much fighting, too much Hell raising, too much womanizing.... just too much of all the things I liked in life. So I vowed too myself that for one year.... no serious relationship with women, and I owuld change all the other things about me that I felt were a problem. For years i had continually crawled out of the hole only too be dragged right back in. I figured if i could get myself straightened out, other good things would fall into place for me.

So for one year i kept my word.... I worked on myself. And I worked hard at it..... and I was true to my vow. And long before that year was over I had pushed all the past demons away.... they weren't dragging me back in the pit this time.

Not long after that year was up, I met my wife Cheryl. The day I met her my change was complete... and 13 years later life is better than ever.

So my tattoo really depicts me being helped out of the pit of past downfalls by an Angel. The Angel really is my Faith pulling me up and out. The arms really represent all those bad things trying to pull  me back in again.

I took years for me to get that first tattoo and it is VERY special to me. Check out the avatar.

Jdogs Better Half:

--- Quote from: buddha on May 17, 2008, 11:53:02 AM ---I'm curious as to why people have gotten certain tattoo designs done.
When my Dad was dying of cancer in '90 I started having these dreams about a Grizzly Bear. I would always be in a different location and the bear would be after me. The locations were strange, once was on a riverboat like what used to run up and down the Mississippi River. In the dreams the bear never caught me but was relentless in chasing me and would, at some point, find someone else to kill. On the riverboat I had gone up into the ceiling in a room on the boat, the bear was tearing the door apart, and I was trying to pull a young girl up into the ceiling to get her away from the bear before he got in the door. She panicked as he was coming through the door and stopped trying to get away and just became dead weight. I tried to pull her up using just my own strength but the bear grabbed her and pulled her away from me and killed her right before my eyes. The look on her face as he got hold of her was upsetting for me because it was a look of sadness and resignation. She had reluctantly accepted her fate.
I was having this kind of dream every night and they continued on even after my Dad had died. I would wake up from these dreams in the middle of the night startled and not be able to get back to sleep for a while and was exhibiting extreme symptoms of sleep deprivation. I tried sleep aids, meditation, guided imagery for sleep, etc. Nothing worked. I had these dreams for a couple of years.
During this time I spoke to a friend of mine who is a Blackfeet Indian shaman from Montana. I asked him what, if anything, he thought I could do to abate the dreams. He told me that I had to make the bear my ally. I asked him how I would best accomplish that and he told me he had no idea.
One day I was sitting inadvertently meditating about the bear and it came to me to get this bear tattooed on my body so he would know that I was honoring him. I went that very day and made that peace offering to the bear by getting his vicious countenance tattooed on my upper right arm. That night, for the first time in two years, I did not dream about the bear and I have not had one of those dreams since.
That is the reason for the bear. I'm interested in reading about the reasons that some of my sly bros have for getting their ink.

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wow!!!!! thats a very cool story!!!! enjoyed reading it

buddha:

--- Quote from: Mikekoz13 on May 17, 2008, 03:46:26 PM ---Man, what a great story Buddha!

For many years I had a of of bad luck in my life... a lot of it my own doing. Two failed marriages, a lot of unsatisfying relationships, you name it. Then after my second wife and I split I had a good serious sit down with myself. I looked long and hard at myself and what it was that had caused me so many problems in my life. it basically came down to a lot of bad choices.... too much drinking, too much softball, too much fighting, too much Hell raising, too much womanizing.... just too much of all the things I liked in life. So I vowed too myself that for one year.... no serious relationship with women, and I owuld change all the other things about me that I felt were a problem. For years i had continually crawled out of the hole only too be dragged right back in. I figured if i could get myself straightened out, other good things would fall into place for me.

So for one year i kept my word.... I worked on myself. And I worked hard at it..... and I was true to my vow. And long before that year was over I had pushed all the past demons away.... they weren't dragging me back in the pit this time.

Not long after that year was up, I met my wife Cheryl. The day I met her my change was complete... and 13 years later life is better than ever.

So my tattoo really depicts me being helped out of the pit of past downfalls by an Angel. The Angel really is my Faith pulling me up and out. The arms really represent all those bad things trying to pull  me back in again.

I took years for me to get that first tattoo and it is VERY special to me. Check out the avatar.

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That is a very cool tattoo, Mike, and a great story behind it. Did you come up with the design or did someone assist in designing it? It is honestly a piece of art! Man, that is the kind of story I'm interested in reading.

When I got my first tat, a tribal style dragon on my right inner forearm, I got it because I wanted to get a tat. There was no story to it. Later I had it modified with Korean script to honor a teacher of mine. So at that point a flash became somewhat original.

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