Dreams about animals

Snakes

Freud read the snake as sexual; Jung read it as transformation and the unconscious. In practice the emotional tone of the dream decides — a frightening snake and a calm one are not the same symbol.

Spiders

The web matters as much as the spider: a situation you feel caught in, or one you are patiently constructing.

Cats

Often read as the independent or feminine aspect of the self. An aggressive cat suggests intuition being ignored.

Dogs

A friendly dog is usually read as loyalty in your life; an aggressive one as loyalty betrayed or a boundary being guarded too hard.

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148 subjects · 791,230 searches a month

Every animals dream people ask about

Ordered by how often each is actually searched. We publish the demand figure because it answers a question no dream dictionary does: is your dream unusual, or is it one of the most common ones there is.

#	Dream about	Searches / month	Share of category
1	Tiger	47,700	6%
2	Dog	44,100	5.6%
3	Lion	42,600	5.4%
4	Cat	31,900	4%
5	Fish	28,300	3.6%
6	Elephant	24,300	3.1%
7	Bear	24,160	3.1%
8	Owl	21,600	2.7%
9	Rat	21,300	2.7%
10	Dog bite	19,800	2.5%
11	Crocodile	16,200	2%
12	Rabbit	13,600	1.7%
13	Horse	13,200	1.7%
14	Wolf	13,100	1.7%
15	Bird	12,700	1.6%
16	Butterfly	12,700	1.6%
17	Ants	12,300	1.6%
18	Black dog	11,600	1.5%
19	Maggots	10,100	1.3%
20	Cat in	9,900	1.3%
21	Kitten	9,790	1.2%
22	Frog	9,680	1.2%
23	Alligator	9,680	1.2%
24	Lizard	8,700	1.1%
25	Crab	8,640	1.1%
26	Dolphins	8,400	1.1%
27	Turtle	8,200	1%
28	Bees	8,200	1%
29	White cat	8,100	1%
30	Worms	7,600	1%
31	Black cat	7,280	0.9%
32	Scorpion	7,200	0.9%
33	Shark	7,100	0.9%
34	Lions	6,600	0.8%
35	Dog bite in	6,600	0.8%
36	Frogs	6,600	0.8%
37	Cockroaches	6,600	0.8%
38	Bee	6,500	0.8%
39	White horse	6,480	0.8%
40	Mouse	6,390	0.8%
41	Puppy	6,240	0.8%
42	Octopus	5,840	0.7%
43	Whale	5,600	0.7%
44	Animals	5,540	0.7%
45	Cattle	5,500	0.7%
46	Cow	5,500	0.7%
47	Cockroach	5,400	0.7%
48	Duck	5,400	0.7%
49	Kittens	5,400	0.7%
50	Pigs	5,000	0.6%
51	Bat	4,800	0.6%
52	Dead fish	4,800	0.6%
53	Bear attack	4,800	0.6%
54	Horses	4,400	0.6%
55	Black bear	4,200	0.5%
56	White tiger	4,000	0.5%
57	Lice	3,800	0.5%
58	Catching fish	3,600	0.5%
59	Gorilla	3,200	0.4%
60	Dead mother	3,200	0.4%
61	White dog	3,200	0.4%
62	Black dogs	2,900	0.4%
63	Catch fish	2,900	0.4%
64	Eating fish	2,780	0.4%
65	Deer	2,640	0.3%
66	Bathroom	2,600	0.3%
67	Dog attack	2,480	0.3%
68	Dinosaurs	2,400	0.3%
69	Monkey	2,400	0.3%
70	Turtles	2,400	0.3%
71	Goat	2,000	0.3%
72	Hummingbird	2,000	0.3%
73	Centipede	2,000	0.3%
74	Whales	2,000	0.3%
75	Bats	2,000	0.3%
76	Killer whale	2,000	0.3%
77	Scorpion in	1,900	0.2%
78	Bathing in	1,900	0.2%
79	Dead cat	1,770	0.2%
80	Birds	1,600	0.2%
81	Bears attacking	1,600	0.2%
82	Moth	1,600	0.2%
83	Dead fish in	1,600	0.2%
84	Bird in	1,600	0.2%
85	Big spider in	1,600	0.2%
86	Big spider	1,600	0.2%
87	Dragon	1,470	0.2%
88	Puppies	1,470	0.2%
89	Dead dog	1,470	0.2%
90	Ladybug	1,440	0.2%
91	Chicken	1,440	0.2%
92	Black bears	1,300	0.2%
93	Riding a horse	1,300	0.2%
94	Mother died	1,300	0.2%
95	Chased by a dog	1,300	0.2%
96	Fishing in a	1,300	0.2%
97	Mountain lion	1,180	0.1%
98	Dead bird	1,180	0.1%
99	Killer whales	1,000	0.1%
100	Cats attacking you	1,000	0.1%
101	Cat attacking me	1,000	0.1%
102	Centipede in	1,000	0.1%
103	Dog bite hand	1,000	0.1%
104	Kitten in	1,000	0.1%
105	Escaping from lion in	1,000	0.1%
106	Polar bears	880	0.1%
107	Lioness chasing me	880	0.1%
108	Catching fish with hands	880	0.1%
109	Dog dying	880	0.1%
110	Dog attacking me	880	0.1%
111	Dokkaebi bato	880	0.1%
112	Snails	880	0.1%
113	Black horse	880	0.1%
114	Lion chasing me	880	0.1%
115	Polar bear	880	0.1%
116	Snail	880	0.1%
117	Bath	880	0.1%
118	Eating fish in	880	0.1%
119	Dog poop	880	0.1%
120	Black cats	880	0.1%
121	Lions attacking	720	0.1%
122	Rio bath and body works	720	0.1%
123	Fried chicken	720	0.1%
124	Moths	720	0.1%
125	Tiger attack	720	0.1%
126	Frying chicken	720	0.1%
127	Lion attack	720	0.1%
128	Killing cockroach in	720	0.1%
129	Bear in	720	0.1%
130	White owl	590	0.1%
131	Home and mother	590	0.1%
132	Lion chasing you	590	0.1%
133	Dead cats	590	0.1%
134	Dead rats	590	0.1%
135	White mouse	590	0.1%
136	Spider webs	590	0.1%
137	Dog biting me	590	0.1%
138	Mouses	590	0.1%
139	Dog chasing me	590	0.1%
140	Spider bite	590	0.1%
141	Caterpillar	590	0.1%
142	Giant spider	590	0.1%
143	Pigeon	590	0.1%
144	Catching a big fish	590	0.1%
145	Cat bite in	590	0.1%
146	Piglet in	590	0.1%
147	Dead birds	590	0.1%
148	Cat bite	590	0.1%

The most-asked animals dream is Tiger at 47,700 searches a month — 6% of everything in this category. Just 17 of the 148 subjects account for half the demand, which is the usual shape: a handful of dreams everybody has, and a long tail almost nobody asks about.