WOODEN BOARD
A wooden board has shown up before in dreams as legislation, however odd that may sound. Wood is a material that humans often craft and reshape into useful objects...a board is flat and rigid, straight and unwavering but strong but still pliable enough to carve or reshape.
JAVELINA
I had to look up javelina -- did you know what they were before the dream? They are peccaries that are
mistaken for pigs, operate in herds, and have such poor eyesight they may
appear to be charging when actually trying to escape.
Living With Javelina
From the article linked above:
Javelina usually cause only minor problems for people by surprising them or eating a few plants. However, people should NEVER feed javelina. This can cause them to become regular visitors and lose their fear of people, creating problems for the neighborhood and often leading to the death of the javelina. Javelina occasionally bite humans, but incidents of bites are almost always associated with people providing the javelina with food.
Removal is usually a last resort; Removal usually results in the death of the javelina. In some cases, the javelina cannot be moved to a different location because it may have a disease or attacked a person. Research shows that most javelina do not survive a move to a different area due to inability to find food, water and shelter; being separated from the herd; being killed by a car, predator or other javelina while defending its territory; or reaction to the capture.
It is election time in the US, and I can't help but think of all sorts of analogies where a peccary is considered a pig, and defensive action appears to be offensive. (And then there's poor vision, lol.)
"Don't feed a visiting animal or it will stay" is a warning we have heard most of our lives... we put seeds out in our birdfeeders and then complain of chipmunk overpopulation, and we feed stray kittens then complain that no one is taking responsibility for it. There is always a consequence to generosity, where we have to set limits before we want to.
On a large scale we see this with immigration and overseas trade -- we complain that jobs are taken, when we/someone opened the doors by seeking efficient solutions or simply wanting open doors.
The javelina situation overall seems to relate to trust and setting boundaries, whether personal or otherwise. In your dream you didn't encourage the visit, but being in the public commerce area seemed to put you in a vulnerable situation.
APPLICATION TO LIFE
I was listening to EWTN this morning, and a priest was talking about our vulnerabilities. He suggested that the enemy attacks where we are vulnerable, so we should look at what parts of our lives the devil make buckle our knees.
He brought up different areas of our spiritual expression -- fellowship, prayer, reading scriptures, demeanor...
If we face our weak areas, we can fortify our walls where they are in fragile or in disrepair, and prevent ransacking of the whole town.
We sometimes imagine that our whole lives are falling apart, when we know that we have managed things fairly well. It only takes a small vulnerability to throw a lot off.
Your dream could have all sorts of explanations, but you will probably get a sense of what it applies to as you work through it. Some people get dreams where identities stretch scope of influence, so self=one's church, company, ministry, organization, nation.
The javelina article leads me to think that what you assume is an attack should be given a little more mercy or understanding -- that if the life and needs of the attacker are considered, you might have a better outcome. Even though it certainly does not look like the obvious solution.
