Animals & Plants

Dreams of animals and plants — what each has meant

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Bear Dreams — Force That Is Usually Not Hunting You Being chased by a bear, a bear that ignores you, a bear with cubs. What the largest animal in North American dreaming tends to mean.
Bee Dreams — The Colony, Not the Insect A single bee is small. What it belongs to is not. What being stung, watching a hive and swarms each signal.
Butterfly Dreams — The Only Symbol That Means Change By Definition A butterfly is a creature that was something else. What landing, chasing and a dying butterfly each signal, plus our letter-rule numbers.
Elephant Dreams — Large, Slow, and Certain Elephants stand for gains that take time and then hold. Why the white elephant means opposite things in English and in Buddhist tradition.
Horse Dreams — Power You Have to Handle Riding, being thrown, a horse that bolts. Horses stand for force that is not automatically yours to direct. Plus the numbers our letter rule produces.
Insect Dreams — Small Things That Do Not Go Away One bug is nothing. The problem is that there is always another. What crawling, swarming and insects leaving the body each signal.
Bird Dreams — Messengers, and Which Direction They Flew Birds move between ground and sky, which is why traditions read them as carriers of news. What arriving, leaving and caged birds each signal.
Cat Dreams — Independence, Not Obedience Cats in dreams stand for relationships you cannot direct. What affection, scratching and black cats each signal, plus the numbers our letter rule produces.
Dog Dreams — Loyalty, Warning, and the Bite A friendly dog and a biting dog point in opposite directions. What each version signals about the people around you, plus the numbers our letter rule produces.
Dragon Dreams — The Monster in the West, the Emperor in the East Western dragons are hoarders to be slain. East Asian dragons are water gods and emperors. The same dream carries opposite meanings depending on which tradition you grew up in.
Fish Dreams — Catching, Losing, and What Comes Up From Below Fish live in the water, and water is feeling. What you pull out of it is the reading. Plus the numbers our letter rule produces for this symbol.
Pig Dreams — Why English Reads Them the Opposite Way From Korea In English-language tradition a pig means excess and uncleanness. In Korea the same dream is the single luckiest thing you can see. Both readings are old, and the difference is the interesting part.
Snake Dreams — What They Mean and the Numbers Behind Them What a snake in a dream has meant to Freud, to Jung, and to the old American dream books — plus the numbers our letter rule produces and how often they have actually been drawn.
Spider Dreams — The Web Is the Point Spiders read as patience and construction more often than as fear. What the web, the bite and the size each signal, plus our letter-rule numbers.

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