What does a rat indicate in dream interpretation?

Answer 1

Rat
As a dream animal, the rat signs for unfavorable and dangerous states. The dreamer may have unproductive, gnawing doubts which stand in the way of a positive approach to life. To see rats in your dream, signifies feelings of doubts, guilt and/or envy and worried about your finances. You are having worthless thoughts that you are keeping to yourself but are eating you up inside. On the other hand, it indicates repulsion. The dream may also be a pun on someone who is a rat. Rats are unpleasant and represent danger, poverty, filth, and sickness. Your unconscious mind may be bringing up unpleasant images due to a trouble in daily life. The dreams purpose is to make you aware of negative feelings that may encourage you to directly deal with the negativity in your life. Dreaming about rats leaves the dreamer feeling anxious and disgusted. Attempt to connect these feelings with those things that produce this type of anxiety throughout the day. The rat can also be the dreams way of providing early alert of serious and dangerous physical illness. How ever a rat in your dream might also points up the fact that someone is very jealous of you and/or your achievements and will work against you in any way possible, it is a dream of warning to be on the alert for enemy attack, the backbiting kind. If you see a white rat it means the same but you will have help from unidentified forces and will receive assistance from an unexpected source. White rats are sign of protection from beneficent forces or entities around you. To see a black rat, means deceit and covert activities. In addition, dreaming of a black or brown rat is a sign of illness or treachery ahead. In European tradition, rats are associated with theft of foodstuffs and the spread of disease, and for that reason seeing brown or black rats running free is a warning to see your doctor and to be careful whom you trust. Seeing brown or black rats in cages, however, is a sign that small irritations in your life will be dealt with. Catching a rat in a trap indicates freedom from worry and a release of stress. To hear rats running, or gnawing in the walls, shows that you have been wasting your time and should move on to greener pastures. To dream that a rat is biting your feet denotes the rat race that you are having in your waking life.

Answer 2

I do dream interpertations. It really depends on how you see a rat. Some say, a snitch. Others might say, a person who feeds off what is discarded.

It really depends on the context of your dream. Let's say, in your dream, a rat was chewing on a telephone cord. I would say there is someone in your life trying to severe communications between you and someone\thing else. Do you get it?

Answer 3

Among other things, signifies feelings of doubts, guilt and/or envy. There are alternate interpretations based on the color of the rat and the context of the dream.

Answer 4

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Rat - Non - threatening: Indicates that something doesn't make sense, is deceptive, is wrong or amiss, isn't fair. Threatening or attacking you: you are in the midst of a situation that involves the previously mentioned meanings. May represent disease if the dream is one about health or well being.

Answer 5

Snakes in a dream are sexual frustration, and I guess a rat would mean you are having too much oral sex. :) Seriously! My book also says that rats in some cultures can mean you are being tortured by evil business people! What a stupid book, but it's like horoscopes and trashy Harlequin novels, but fun to read.

Answer 6

A rat has to do with loss as in falling a victim to a thief in some way i believe. (my grandmother used to read tea leaves.. she was also a minister.. so i guess she read em pretty good..

Answer 7

all those answers are interesting. assuming in the science/medical world we really knew why we dream. but each for their own right