my mother told me of a dream she had a few nights ago and asked me to try and find out what it could mean. it's a very strange dream. apparently she was eating a guinea pig in a sandwich. the guinea pig's brother was standing on the table in front of her screaming and pulling its hair out. any ideas?

Guinea pigs are known for being used in experiments, so maybe she is looking to try (get a taste of) something new.

The guinea pig brother tearing its hair out could have to do with her fears about how other people will react if she does this.

Eating anything would imply trying to obtain some emotional satisfaction from one’s food for thought. As the guinea pig does usually associate with experiments, here this could imply finding satisfaction from the idea of doing some experimentation. {I am assuming the guinea pig was dead, making it simply like a piece of meat in this scene. In this case the idea of experimenting, trying something out, would seem quite mete or appropriate.) The sandwich itself can also imply that there is both a higher and a lower level of intelligence applying to the idea of getting satisfaction from an experimental approach. [Could trying something out involve earning her daily bread or her keep?]

The living guinea pig would represent an emotional aspect of your mother’s own nature – one that would relate with a feeling pertaining to experimentation. As the living guinea pig has been identified as being ‘the brother’, it would seem indicated that her feelings about doing some experimenting, are very relative – meaning that experimenting could be OK in one type of situation but not in another type of situation.

In this scene, the feeling pertaining to some experimentation appears to stand on a high principle (standing on a table) and might be an up front idea – quite legitimate. Standing on a table would also emphasize the idea of obtaining satisfaction from food for thought in a human manner. Here this would mean that the satisfaction does not cause anyone else to make a sacrifice. (This would apply if the guinea pig in the sandwich were a living guinea pig.)

Yet your mother’s own emotional nature, when using an experimental perspective, appears to be eliciting some objections (guinea pig’s brother screaming) and causing some frustration or simply emotional distress. (pulling its hair out) This would seem particularly merited if the guinea pig in the sandwich were actually a living animal because then the satisfaction coming from some experimentation would be coming with an emotional sacrifice – and on a physical level of interpretation, also at the expense of the person who could be represented by a ‘living’ guinea pig in the sandwich.