Tyr and the Bodhi Tree

Recently I had a very surreal and lucid dream. The dream started out with me walking along a rough and ragged road under the hot sun that felt like it was scorching my skin. I walked and walked for what seemed like an eternity until I noticed a field of wheat and I stopped to explore this field - anything to get me off of that road and away from the sun. As I walked aimlessly around this wheat field I noticed a dark shape way out on the horizon. This shape was so far away that it was a small black blob but my only thought was shelter and that black blob was my best hope. With that hope, I walked on. 

Eventually I got close enough to where I could make out that it was a vary large tree and it was not long until I was under the shade of the tree which gave me respite from the sun. I was about to lay down using the tree as a backrest but I noticed a leg sticking out from the other side and as I rounded the tree I found a man leaning against the tree. This man was dressed in simple robes but was very muscular and had a big beard. This man looked at me and said "Sit my son, you a weary from your travels". As I sat the man offered me some water from his canteen and reached up to one of the low hanging branches and picked a fruit off of it. He then offered it to me and said. "Here is a fig, I hope you enjoy it." After I took the fig from him we started talking like old friends. During this conversation as the man under the tree was gesturing I noticed that he only had one hand. The conversation continued until sunset and at that point the man under the tree turned to me and said, "I must go. I have things that I must do but you can stay here and relax." Then, the man under the tree got up and walked out of sight. 

Upon awakening, the one thing was that the man under the tree was Tyr, the God of War and purveyor of Justice among other virtues. After laying awake and thinking about what conspired in the dream I felt that there was a lesson, meaning, or message in that dream. Naturally, I spent a good amount of time researching fig trees and Gods under figs trees. My research led me to a tree called the The Bodhi Tree, which was/is a large and ancient sacred fig tree located in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who became known as the Buddha, is said to have attained enlightenment or Bodhi. 

This then led me to researching Buddhism and after a time I realized that the message in the dream was about me finding my path to spiritual understanding and helping me to calm the storm that rages inside of me. I feel like the teachings of Buddhism will help me understand the spiritual path I started on 15 years ago. With more understanding the road traveled becomes smoother; with a smoother road I will fall less, and with less falls and injuries relating to the fall people do not have to lift me up or catch me and in that process be injured themselves by my weight.