Dreaming about protecting

Protecting yourself in a dream is pointing out that the effect of some negative situation is causing you to protect yourself this protection comes at a price, and the dream is asking you to deal with whatever caused you to be this way for example, a dream where you are crouching down protecting your three year old son, says that you are protecting your inner child from an event that happened at age 3 now is the time to look back at this and do whatever it takes to eliminate the negative effects that you still carry with you today.