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Very vivid dream of losing legs what does this mean?

I had a dream last night that really got to me. It was so real I had no idea I was dreaming until I woke up. I lost both my legs below the knee in a shark attack. I felt pain and everything. My right leg was completly taken off and my left leg was left mangled and the doctors had to take it off. In my dream, I got 1 artificial leg and was walking around fine on it but I still had the mangled leg on and it hurt so bad. I was in a wheelchair about to be wheeled into surgery to take my remaining leg off and I reached down to feel my leg where the artificial one was (I had one of the old-school style artificial ones in my dream that looked like a real leg but it was heavy and clinky) and I could NOT feel my leg during the dream. I pulled my artificial leg off in the dream and felt pressure around my knee area when it was coming off and then I put it back on. I was in the hospital now with both legs gone and I reached down to feel my legs and yes both were gone but I felt my hands touching them. I got up and walked in my dream with the artificial legs and it felt so weird. I remember crying to my mom and she told me not to worry that I would be normal still and could still do normal things and I felt so much anticipation about being legless the rest of my life and I cried in my dream. I had no idea I was dreaming. This is wierd for me because I can usualy control my dreams and know I'm dreaming in a dream. I know they say most people cannot feel pain in dreams but I always feel pain in mine if I'm going through something painful. As soon as I woke up It was so sudden. Usualy I fade away from a dream but I woke up so sudden it took me by shock and the first thing I did was reach down (lol) and touch my legs and I was thinking "thank God!" I wanted to go run circles around the block it made me appreciate having legs so much more. So I looked this up online to try to interpret it cuz I lost my extensive dream dictionary book and I only got that if you dream your legs are mangled you have lost balance in your life or something like that, but I think this is the wrong interpretation of that because in my dream I was strong even though I cried because I was walking on my false legs. But part of me thinks the dream was sent to me to make me appreciate having legs. I am not going to call myself lazy or anything lol but I do stay seated on my computer more than I should even though I'm doing something constructive the majority of the time I'm on it ( I make artwork in photoshop ) but that is something I enjoy doing. So any input on this? I don't want any haters coming in here saying "dreams mean nothing" because I think they do. The majority of my dream I was walking on the articial legs. The beginning I was swimming and a shark bit them off and I could see very gory details of my tendons and stuff just hanging off where my leg used to be. Thought I'd add those parts in.

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1. It sounds like you have interpreted your dream pretty well in regards to how it affects you personally. I feel legs represent movement and can show progress. When we have our own two legs, we can go and do whatever we want. If we are on artificial legs, we may need some assistance, but can generally function on our own. Maybe your dream is telling you that you need to ask for help sometimes, even if you think that you can do things on your own. Or maybe it means that even if you feel like you've lost your ability to help yourself, you really haven't. The sharks that took your leg off could represent people in your life that are trying to, for lack of a better word, sabotage you and your progress.