What are rat dreams about?
Rats are small rodents. They are often seen as a problem by getting into food and potentially carrying diseases and pests. This symbol is identified by words like rat.
Rats in dreams is a very uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.4% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 250 dreams.
What are the major highlights of rat dreams?
Rats is a normal dream symbol. Having rats in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Rat dreams are very social
Dreams of rats contain more characters than most other dream symbols. While dreams are often about other people and social relationships, dreams of rats are especially related to having lots of characters. Other symbols that are like this include romantic partners, hosts, angels, bullies, children, rabbits, friends, places, sisters, and things.
What symbols more present in dreams of rats?
Rat dreams are notable because they have substantially more cages, hamsters, eating, general animals, mice, rodents, disease, abscesses, consuming, squirrels, cats, spiders, chasing, pooping, tyrants, kittens, farmers, biting, rabbits, antelopes, killing, roaches, creatures, general insects, red eyes, Madagascar, hugeness, pets, cartoons, maggots, jackals, deformation, legs, ugliness, yellow eyes, other fantastic beings, blood, scientists, creeping and crawling, hunger, farms, weasels, Denmark, descending, jumping, mansions, snakes, devouring, toenails, bigness, infecting, fetuses, monster, safety, cheese, attacking, ammunition, green eyes, trapping, and tunnels than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of rats?
Rat dreams are notable because they have substantially less waking life, crashes, boyfriends, general crashes, driving, lucid dreams, speaking, peeing, funerals, falling in love, being shot, the afternoon, spaceships, losing control, vacations, schools, recurring dreams, unnamed individuals, kissing, above, anuses, taking a test, cold sweats, seeing a dead friend, whales, walmart, United States of America, tigers, finding money, rockets, makeup, Japan, general disasters, my children, distant people, infidelity, sleep paralysis, romantic partners, greeting, and beaches than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of rats affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in rats dreams?
Overall, dreams with rats are much more related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rats are much more related to animals and much more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles, much less related to distant people, and less related to close people.
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What are the emotions in rats dreams?
Overall, dreams with rats are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rats are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.
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Who is in rats dreams?
Overall, dreams with rats are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rats are less related to home, less related to work, and much less related to human places.
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What happens in rats dreams?
Overall, dreams with rats are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rats are much less related to friendly interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do rats in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with rats are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of rats are much less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to sleep paralysis.
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How can you make sense of rats in dreams?
Rat dreams are very uncommon. Among other things rat dreams are normally interconnect and very social.
Do you think this is true for your dream of rats? How might your dream of rats be different?
All dreams have meaning
You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.
Look for the differences
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience rats in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
Return to the feelings
Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about rats in dreams. See how you feel about rats now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of rats?
Rats are associated with pests and disease, so dreams of rats can relate to anything that pesters you or rubs off in a bad way. For example, anxieties and worries pester you. Bad influence rubs off on you. Negativity spreads like a disease. See: Anxiety, Disease
A person described as a rat can’t be trusted. He or she has a bad character.
An informant or tattletale is called a rat. It can symbolize feeling betrayed. For an example, see: Bed.
Rats are connected with anything that plagues you and won’t go away. See: Infesting
Rats are associated with fear and disgust. See: Fear
However, people who keep rats as pets might describe them as lovable or harmless, so rats in their dreams can have different positive symbolism related to protecting something that’s small and harmless. For example, a young man who used to have a pet rat dreams about protecting it from a cat, symbolizing how small he feels when his mother lectures him and how he tries to protect his sensitive inner nature.
Pet rats can be associated with rat-like instincts that have been tamed, or with trying to find your way through “the maze of life.” Dreaming about taming a rat could symbolize overcoming a habit of being a tattletale, or improving your living conditions.
Rats scrounge for food and shelter, and in dreams they can symbolize struggling for survival.
“Rat race” describes competition and crowding.
A dream about a house infested with rats can represent that your life or emotions are in disarray. See: Infesting
As with other symbolism, consider the context of the dream-story and your feelings. Obviously, if a rat in a dream is running on a wheel and you feel sorry for it, then the dream is most likely using the rat in the context of “rat race.”
Rats running throughout your child’s room could symbolize worries about him or her.
See also: Animals, Anxiety, Disease, Fear, Infesting, Mazes
This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.
Examples of dreams of rats
Read some real dream reports of rat dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
I've made a fucked up dream and I would like to know the meaning of this (if it has meanings) (may be NSFW)
First of, a little bit of background :
I'm french, I live in Toulouse with a roomate (He will be named (Big Champ) and sometime a third friend (let's call him Nabe King)
So, here's the dream :
We are in my appartment, there is Big Champ and Nabe King sitting on the couch ! I was like : "Hey guys, there's this awsome and fucking weird hentai I found, maybe we could watch it together ?" And then, they're like "why not, it'll be fun"
So, I launch the DVD to watch it with my bros.
It's a First Person Hentai and the protag is nameless and voiceless, we see a Young Girl (19 maybe) with thick thighs and massive boobs. She has big red eyes and short purple hair. We obviously fuck for no reasons but then, there is no more Nabe King, Big Chump or I, I only see and feel through the protag. I now exist in the univers of this hentai. I see a gigantic tentacle monster who look slimy and petrol-like. He fucks the "Waifu" then sat us behind an office and the monster transform into a mafia fat dandy old godfather but he's purple, he say with the French Kratos VA : "you like to fuck my wife isn't it ? Sooo, how about a threesome !" Then, there is a friend of the mafioso who say "Boss, that's not nice, let them be !" The guy who said that looked like both Alvin from Tales Of Xillia 2 and Morvran Voorhis from The Witcher ! Then, a flash !
It's all just a video game, it looks like the interface of Jack And Daxter, we see the Purple Mafioso turned again in a Tentacle Blob Monster with massive fists. He's in an arena, he fights orcish rat mutants while trying to help his friend ("Alvin") to open the door.
Then, another flash, I'm me again, but it's in the past in Toulouse, before the pandemic. I run, stressed out, I know everything that will happen. I run into a very classy Cinéma. There's the Waitress, all dressed in red with a top hat, she's old (60's) and has short hairs. She is "worried" about how I look, so terrified and scared. I run off then, stumble upon a very beautiful, stunning blonde girl, she look like Thomasine from The Vvitch. I say "is it before the pandemic ? It is isn't it ? You must hide before the end of times ! The rat will come !" She calms me saying "Gosh ! I sure will never make you meet my patiens !" Then she smiles at me then...
My fucking alarm clock ring.
I want to know what I've experienced, everything was sooo true ! It feels so real ! ... it's random and strange too
First of, a little bit of background :
I'm french, I live in Toulouse with a roomate (He will be named (Big Champ) and sometime a third friend (let's call him...
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I killed Jesse pinkman
I killed Jesse pinkman
So I had a dream I forgot most of the beginning but I was in a drug store with either Walter white or my dad and we were wearing hazmat suits. Walter or dad told me my cat and Jesse were gonna rat on us and I had to take them out. I forget what happens next but I end up hitting Jesse with a cleaver while he’s tied up and he won’t die and I’m crying because I don’t want to kill Jesse. I drown him in a pond behind my house and, still crying, I try to shoot my cat but miss. I was balling my eyes out and I said I don’t want to do this or something then the load game screen from Fallout 4 pops up and my dream selects a load before I kill Jesse. I woke up and I was crying which hasn’t in a while. What does it mean??
I killed Jesse pinkman
So I had a dream I forgot most of the beginning but I was in a drug store with either Walter white or my dad and we were wearing hazmat...
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Nesting with rats?
So I had this wierd dream that for some reason I felt like I had to resting or sleeping woth rats underground. I remember crawling covered with mud and possibly rats faeces and being surrounded byratss and mice. But they weren't afraid of me they seemed like they knew I was supposed to be with them. That's all I can really remember. Any ideas?
So I had this wierd dream that for some reason I felt like I had to resting or sleeping woth rats underground. I remember crawling covered with mud and possibly...
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had a very gruesome nightmare about animal abuse
I still vividly remember this nightmare I had recently. I haven't seen my father properly in a long time and my mental health is falling apart as well. Alot of people suggested me getting a cat for getting better and I honestly loved that idea but now I'm scared of it. my father never really liked animals and my nightmare starts off with me waking up on the couch in the living room (yes its a dream where I thought I was awake) and I was searching for a kitten I recently got (in that dream, not irl). I noticed that I can't find the cat but I see the light coming from the kitchen which usually means my father is at home (didn't happen in the past six months now) and I get a very bad feeling. Jumping up, and hurrying to the kitchen and peeking in, I only see my father cussing and kicking in the small kitten. Saying words like "stupid rat" or something like that, he didn't stop until the body was completely broken and the kitten stopped making sounds. my father then proceeded to throw it in the trash, cleaning up and ignoring me all the time but the image of the poor thing still burns in my head and I've been so afraid and sad and upset ever since. my heart feels heavy even writing this, having to recall this bullshit, I think I'm going to either cry or throw up again
I still vividly remember this nightmare I had recently. I haven't seen my father properly in a long time and my mental health is falling apart as well. Alot of...
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Rats
Had a dream where I hire this guys that uses rats to setup alarm systems, (trip wires, cameras, etc) (also i dont recognize the house) so the rats start swarming my house setting up the alarm systems, later that night I get home piss drunk, (I can only assume I was wobbling around and sh**) anyways I start stumbling around activating the traps and stop to turn around, and see a bunch of rats swarming my house hunting me down
What does this mean?
Had a dream where I hire this guys that uses rats to setup alarm systems, (trip wires, cameras, etc) (also i dont recognize the house) so the rats start...
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