I had a dream that was of Satan this morning, or what I interpreted as Satan, and he wasn't scary or evil at all. He was kind and told me he loved me and I can't remember all of the details of the dream but I remember feeling like I hadn't an insecurity left in the world, and then was sexually active with him at one point or another.

I believe in God, I'm not by any means religious though, as I've always thought of myself as open to every possibility, and that even the scariest of things still have meaning, and should be respected for that. However, this isn't a new idea, and I haven't had any big changes in faith to trigger a different idea, I don't think. As a teenager, even with my beliefs that evil was to be expected and not always perceived accurately, Satan was always terrifying and unseen except for a shadow in dreams, which I assume is normal because "Satan" and "Evil" go hand-in-hand. Why could I be giving him a face and putting him in a different light in my dreams now? What could this dream represent? I don't feel like there have been any great changes in my life but then you don't always see them when they occur.

I posted this question on Yahoo Answers as well and I haven't checked back in a few but I imagine the answer, "because there are evils in your life" will be there by now or one suggested not giving it up to someone just because they tell me they love me is what I understood they were saying but the latter really isn't an issue I have and I don't feel like that concerns me and the idea that I need to rid myself of "evil"...well, that's my point, is that it wasn't a bad or scary dream at all. I rather enjoyed it.

According the the bible, Satan, or Lucifer, is an angel of light that was once in god's favor but wanted more and was cast out.

Maybe what you are embracing in the dream is that part of you that is rejecting authority (the god figure). Are there authority figures in your life that you feel don't really know you but think they know what's best for you? The Satan you embraced is that part of you that wants independence.

It may not be Satan. Could you be more specific about why you think it (he) is?

You speak of "a shadow in dreams", and the pioneer psychoanalyst Carl Jung used the term "shadow" to refer to those aspects of our psyche that we push out of conciousness or prefer to think are "not me." Taken broadly, it certainly includes evil aspects of ourselves, especially those we like to kid ourselves and others that we don't have; but it also includes many things, good in themselves, which parents, teachers, friends and the like disapprove of or see as valueless.

In short, there are two hells. The one spoken of in the Bible where Satan reigns, and the one we, with the help of society, create.The first we are right to shun, the other may contain valuable treasure. The question here is whether you met Satan or, with apologies to Lamont Cranston, "The Shadow.'