Animal(s) Dream Meanings

Animal(s) Dream Meaning: From 10 Different Sources


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Animal(s)

(see also entries for particular animals; e.g. Bear, Cat)

(1) Parents may appear in dreams in the guise of animals. The animal will then usually be a focus for the dreamer’s ambivalent - love-hate - feelings towards the parent. For example, a spider or a cat may signify the threatening aspect of a mother from whose influence you need to liberate yourself.

Two of Freud’s most famous patients had animal phobias, as did a patient of Sandor Ferenczi (a member of Freud’s inner circle). One dreamed of white wolves in the branches of a walnut tree outside his bedroom window and the other had strong ambivalent feelings (fear and attraction) towards horses; the third was obsessed with poultry. Freud concluded that in all three cases the animals were father surrogates: in each case the person’s feelings for his father had been displaced on to animals.

(2) Animals may represent other people, besides parents. What you associate with the particular animal - slyness or aggressiveness or whatever — may be a characteristic of the particular person; the way you react to the animal in the dream may express your (perhaps unconscious) feelings towards the person.

(3) Animals in dreams may be symbolic of some primitive - ‘animal’, or even ‘beasdy5 - part of your psyche: some instinctive urge, for example. Thus, if in the dream your emotional response to the animal is one of fear, this would seem to indicate a fear of the instinctive urge (which, because of the fear, has been repressed).

If the animal has a threatening appearance, it may be a symbol of the danger that threatens the peace of the psyche when some part of it is neglected and confined to the ‘cellar’ - the depths of the unconscious - and not allowed proper expression at the conscious level. This situation may also be symbolized by the figure of a caged or wounded animal: we sometimes control our instincts too tightly or even maltreat them, and, just as animals are never more fierce or dangerous than when wounded, so it is with our Svounded’ instincts.

A view well worth considering is that we cannot - without detriment to ourselves - dispense with our animal nature, any more than with our ‘higher’ or ‘spiritual’ nature. The way to achieve peace and happiness is to allow both these sides of our nature to develop and find fulfilment in and through each other, in a symbiosis in which body and spirit, instead of going their separate ways, cooperate with mutual respect, each supplying means for the other’s fulfilment.

(4) A threatening or ferocious animal may represent aggression or anger buried in the unconscious.

If you think this may be so in your case (perhaps because you are prone to irrational, disproportionate outbursts of rage), look for the origins of the aggression. It may go back to early childhood: a child’s desire for a parent and its consequent jealousy and resentment towards the other parent may result in feelings of guilt, which in turn give rise to a desire to punish oneself. This aggressiveness directed against oneself (i.e. masochism) may then spill over into aggressiveness or rancour towards other people (i.e. sadism), especially loved ones or people closely related. Typically, an unresolved Oedipus complex (the ambivalent, love-hate feelings of an infant towards a parent) may display itself in later life in a similar ambivalence towards a spouse - an inability to love someone without simultaneously wanting to punish him or her.

Contradictory feelings towards others are a sign of inner conflict, usually a conflict between desire and conscience. And what we call conscience may be a morbid censoring and prohibiting mechanism set in motion by a childhood fear of punishment. This needs to be distinguished from a healthy conscience, which consists of all those moral guidelines we give ourselves by rational reflection. Some compromise between desires and the need to survive and succeed socially is almost inevitable; but a reasonably negotiated compromise is far preferable to the potentially dangerous inner tension that results from submitting to irrational phobias posing as the moral law.

(5) A tamed animal, or the act of taming an animal, may symbolize (the need for) that kind of controlled expression of instinct that is appropriate for living as a part of civilized society or for feeling that you are ‘king of the castle’ - that is, in control of your own actions.

(6) The wolf in the Little Red Riding Hood story exemplifies another piece of animal symbolism. The wolf here represents for a sexually inexperienced woman the terrifying aspect of the male, the fear of sexual contact. In its earliest versions the story possibly served as a warning to young girls against socially premature sexual relations with men. Animals in dreams may certainly have a sexual meaning and the wolf is an obvious example of this, if only because the word Volf is itself commonly applied to men whose sexual lust is unbounded and purely ‘animal’.

See also Frog, Wolf.

(7) If in your dream you arc being chased by an animal, the animal probably represents some (repressed) emotion or instinct. As long as you keep such things buried in your unconscious thev will continue to

plague and disturb you. Face up to whatever it is, and enter into receptive and patient dialogue with it.

(8) The killing of an animal may symbolize cither what has been described in (5) above (but now given exaggerated, dramatic expression) or the actual destruction of some essential, because natural, part of your psyche. The second alternative would indicate some fear of your own instinctive nature, some phobic undervaluing of the body, the senses, or sex. You would have to be very honest to work out which of these alternatives - an irrational slaughter (repression) of the natural self (a symbolic castration), or a rational taming of an instinct diat is threatening the balance of the psyche - is applicable in your own case.

Dream Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols
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Animal(s)

Depends on your feelings for the particular animal (for typical meaning see the specific type).

A helpful animal normally represents the instinctive self. Look at your feelings and beliefs about this animal.

An animal relates to your own natural and inborn instincts. Good omens of a base nature as long as they are not being violent.

If misbehaving, it is an indication of a party where people are lacking good manners and are demonstrating poor judgment. This is all a reflection of the patterns that need to be repatterened within you. Your belief system is drawing you to these situations and people. Animals represent your primitive, physical and sexual mannerisms and expressions.

A heard: prosperity. Animal instincts (or human nature), sex, aggression. Animals may also be healing agents (e.g.An alligator to a timid person) or entities. Black Dog Animals represent the dreamer’s animal instincts (or human nature), sex, aggression, paternal or maternal instincts, social status, etc.

The choice of animal, its color and location indicate how the instinct is regarded.

For example, a black dog in the bedroom means the dreamer’s attitude to sex is dominated by fear. Animals may also be healing agents (e.g.An alligator to a timid person) or entities **Animals: “Carl Jung said that all wild animals indicate latent effects (feelings and emotions that we do not readily deal with). They are also symbolic of dangers (hurtful and negative things) being “swallowed” by the unconscious.

The interpretation of the animal in your dream depends on your relationship with it in daily life. Animals represent the qualities in our character or specific aspects of our personalities. They could symbolize our more intuitive and instinctive parts, or they could serve as messengers for the unconscious. Please look up each animal individually by name. 

Dream Source: The Bedside Dream Dictionary
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Animal

A particular quality of that animal.

Something or someone you (at least subconsciously) associate with that type of animal in general.

Consider also the animal’s characteristics, actions, and what stood out about it during the dream.

For example, a cold and slimy frog might represent someone you think of as “cold and slimy.” If frogs remind you of Prince Charming in disguise, a frog could represent someone you consider a “hidden gem.” A frog making a big jump could represent the idea of quick progress in your life.

See also the specific animal.

See also: Baby; Animal Noise; Insect; Animals (the category)

Dream Source: The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary
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Animal

The animal, compulsive nature of human beings. Instincts, according to Freud and most other dream interpreters, removed from awareness (animus); or awareness removed from instinct (anima) in human beings.

The image of the suppressed or of the shadow, suggesting a chance for integration.

The type of animal in the dream is important. Jung suggested that we find out more about the innate character of the animal we have dreamed about. According to Freud, small animals always symbolize children and siblings, while wild animals are a symbol for sexually excited or exciting people, evil urges, or passions.

Dream Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia
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Animal

The animal sound will reflect the symbolism of the animal with which it is associated. For example, the crow of a cock is an awakening, alerting us to new challenges; the bark of a dog suggests a loyal companion, the hiss of snake, sexuality and so on. Bear in mind that animals are thought to express the more primitive side of your nature and the raw urges related to sex and aggression— things that polite society often tries to curb.

See also ANIMALS; BIRDS.

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia
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Animal(s)

1. If killing, the desire to eliminate a certain aspect of one’s personality as symbolized by the particular animal (e.G., One might kill a lion to eliminate aggressiveness).

2. Aspects of one’s own or another’s personality as reflected in the characteris­tics of a certain animal.

3. Religious or spiritual representations.

Dream Source: New American Dream Dictionary
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Animal

Enjoying sex with an animal, such as being caressed by a bear, is the way that your dreams describe your basic sexual urges at their most basic and uncomplicated level. It doesn’t mean you are weird. In such dreams, you are simply dispensing with social conventions and experiencing lust.
Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia
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Animal

Instinctive part of self attuned to nature and survival, associated with second and third chakras. Also, the characteristics a specific animal represents to you, such as speed, cunning, power or wisdom.

See individual animals.

Dream Source: The Dream Books Symbols
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Animal

Domestic animals: Comfort, familiarity, security, gentleness. Astrological parallel: Virgo

Wild animals: The lower nature, the unknown, fear, danger. Astrological parallel: Aries

Dream Source: Dream Explanations of Astro Center
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Animal

Dreams of an animal symbolize that you are connecting with your wild side, basic instincts and survival needs. Consider the type of animal.

See Zoo.

Dream Source: Strangest Dream Explanations
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48 dream interpretation about animal related.

Represent people, according to color and character; research accordingly...

Dream Source: Dream Dictionary Unlimited

If the males thereof are seen in the dream with no desire to hunt them, they represent such people who have no Deen; they have alienated themselves from the Muslim community so as ...

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

Discovering a stuffed animal in the attic may point to childhood issues and feelings that have been repressed.A stuffed animal is an object of emotional comfort and attachment....

Dream Source: Ariadne's Book of Dream

The willingness and ability to track and trap a wild animal indicates one has great confidence and courage. ...

Dream Source: New American Dream Dictionary

The instinctive self.A guide....

Dream Source: The Bedside Dream Dictionary

(The limbs, eyes, mouth, etc) these all have the same significance as parts of the human body.If the four legs are particularly emphasized – possibly in contrast with a three-leg...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

One’s needs being met daily, without accumulation...

Dream Source: Dream Dictionary Unlimited

1. Strength, aggression; conflict.2. Mischievous (“of the devil”).3. A phallus.4. Magic (unicorn). ...

Dream Source: New American Dream Dictionary

(See Bones)...

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

They all symbolise one’s enemies.The size and strength of such animals is the deciding factor for the strength and power of such enemies.And Allah knows best....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

If a person sees himself as becoming the owner of will animals and these animals are under his full control so that he leads them to wherever he desires, it means he will become th...

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

To see someone speaking to the observer or giving him something suggests that the observer4 will socialize or deal with him or someone who bears a similar name or resembles him....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

It symbolises haraam wealth....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

This is a glad tiding that the one who eats this will be blessed with a long life and plentiful of wealth. And the head of a human being is regarded as better and more excellent.An...

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

This symbolises wealth.If it gives off a bad smell it symbolises unlawful wealth.The stronger the odour the greater the unlawfulness....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

If a person sees himself as hunting a wild animal it means he will acquire wealth and booty-whether the hunted animal is a male for female....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

they represent men, women and slave-girls....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

he will become a recipient of a fortune from some woman....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

Improper saddling of an animal for a ride in a dream means imposition upon oneselfor others, or it could mean unnecessary and inadequate going out of one’s way....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

(Peel) In a dream, skinning an animal represents an unjust ruler, a tyrant, an oppressor, a policeman who takes people’s money and disappears, or a policeman who can be bribed....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

This means he will oppress someone whom the Haraam animal represents....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

In a dream, the sound of a crowd means money beside other benefits.The bleating of sheep in a dream means distress and fear.The neigh of horses in a dream means might and honor.The...

Dream Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation

The animal horn, in the past, was often connected with the devil. Today it is a sign (more or less) of a “healthy” ability to achieve. Also it may be related to the idea of giv...

Dream Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia

Take chances—just once try not to be so proper....

Dream Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia

Happiness and long life....

Dream Source: Mystic Dream Book

interpreted upon 4 [sides:] following & companions & wealth, comfort, life....

Dream Source: Islamic Dream - Cafer-i Sadik

This represents motherly qualities and, therefore, the mothering instinct....

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

The childlike side of our personality, or possibly children known to us, can give us information about innocence and naivety....

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

Example: ‘I am given an animal to look after (usually somebody’s pet) while they are away on holiday. I then completely forget the animal, go away and when I return the animal ...

Dream Source: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences

To dream of composite animals could indicate some confusion in sorting out what qualities we need to use in waking life.The qualities of the various animals need to be assimilated ...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

The dreamer realizes that some of his impulses are out of kilter....

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

When we dream of domesticated animals we are aware of those parts of ourselves with which we have already come to terms. There are passions which are being used in a controlled way...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

Such an image is often about the ‘demons’ we create which can only be overcome by assimilating them in a constructive way. Shamanic societies believe that one takes on certain ...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

The figures of animals are an easy way for us to accept the help the subconscious and spiritual realms can offer. Your totem animal is traditionally your ‘guide’ through the un...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

We are perceiving a difficulty in behaving maturely or confronting issues in waking life....

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

This is symbolic of destroying the energy derived from the instincts.It is trying to eradicate the very raw power of basic behaviour. Taming or harnessing the animal shows the effo...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

To find any animal threatening in a dream indicates the fears and doubts we have over our ability to cope with the stirrings of the unconscious. Such dreams are relatively common w...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

In dreams, the metamorphosis of the dreamer or other people into animals and vice versa shows the potential for change within any situation. Coincidentally, magical techniques allo...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

To dream of trying to find some refuge from animals, whether by building defences or perhaps by running away, is indicative of our struggle with our animal instincts and whether th...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

This suggests that we have been wounded, either emotionally or spiritually, or perhaps that our natural instincts are not being allowed free expression and are, therefore, not func...

Dream Source: Dream Meanings of Versatile

(animal)Seeing a seal in dreams points to emotional loneliness, the result of immaturity or inexperience....

Dream Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams

There is a rich history in many aboriginal cultures that is still part of the collective consciousness around the purity of the color white in the realm of animal totems. Most comm...

Dream Source: Complete Dictionary of Dreams

Neither pets nor wild creatures, agricultural animals often represent personal traits that you may have tamed to a certain extent, although there is always the risk that they will ...

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia

To dream that you are rescuing, caring for or saving the life of an animal, suggests that you are successfully acknowledging certain emotions and characteristics represented by the...

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia

Dreams about animals in water are symbols of our emotions. Water is a symbol of emotion because water, like emotion, constantly moves and flows. How the animal moves within the wat...

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia

Maternal and paternal instinct; your basic childhood need for love and protection or your own experience of being parented. A baby animal can refer to yourself when young and vulne...

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia

To see wild animals caged suggests that you are in control of your instincts.If you are in the cage with them, it could suggest a need to break free from constraints.If you dream o...

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia

Also known as zoomorphism, to dream that you are changing into the form of an animal indicates that you are becoming less civilized and restrained, and becoming more free and insti...

Dream Source: The Element Encyclopedia

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