Definition: A wild boar, also known as a boar, represents ferocity, aggression, strength and energy, your need to develop friendship ties.
If you dream of a wild boar, it symbolize your energy and power, love, joy and happiness. You feel that you have a lot of strength within you and that you are capable of tackling any challenge that life throws at you, means a disturbance in your psyche and well-being. This dream also reflect your connection to nature and your ability to use your animal instincts, stands for a harmless fantasy.
On the other hand, a wild boar also represent harmful behavior or anger, an omen for your one-sided viewpoints. For example, if you are being chased by a wild aggressive boar in your dream, it indicate that you are going to face challenges or conflicts in your life that you cannot handle, a frivolous matter or situation. The boar symbolizes your oppression or hostility, which you suppress or hold back, sadly a warning alert for your inability to persuade others to see your point of view. It is also possible that the dream is showing you that you have a lot of energy and power in your life and that you should use it in a positive way to overcome your challenges and achieve your goals, signals how much you have over the in your life.
General Conclusion: A dream about a wild boar suggests that you have energy and strength that you should use in a positive way to overcome your challenges, a clue for new starts. If the wild boar is hostile or aggressive in the dream, it indicate trouble in your life that you have to deal with, the many directions that you can take in life.
Dreaming of a boar a vivid and powerful dream experience, symbolises stubbornness, disharmony and unhappiness.
A boar in a dream represent strength, power, and ferocity, a clue for negative forces that are drawing you towards a path of dishonor and ruin. It also symbolize aggression or a need to defend oneself, a signal for your deeper, melancholy feelings. This dream indicate that you are facing a challenge in your daily life and need to stand up for yourself or assert your boundaries, a hint for conservatism. It also suggest that you are feeling particularly passionate or energized, an indication for your wishes of how you want your own parents to be like.
For example, if the boar is charging at you or attacking you, it indicate that you are feeling threatened or overwhelmed in your daily life, a harbinger for an unfamiliar situation. If the boar is running away from you, it suggest that you are trying to avoid a difficult situation or confrontation, expresses your hidden desires to be more emotionally daring and adventurous.
If the boar in your dream is wounded or injured, it indicate that you are feeling vulnerable or weakened in some way, refers to your lack of understanding in some area of your life.
In some cultures, boars are seen as symbols of fertility, abundance, and wildness, points to discovery of something that you have repressed or stored in the subconscious. In ancient Celtic mythology, for example, the boar was associated with the warrior god Cernunnos and was seen as a symbol of power and virility, a hint for action.
In some Native American traditions, boars are seen as symbols of determination, courage, and perseverance, expresses war, power.
In some cultures, boars are seen as symbols of hunting and the hunt, you need to your of your life. In ancient Greece, for example, the goddess Artemis was associated with hunting and was often depicted with a boar by her side, you need to offer more toward others.
From a psychological perspective, dreaming of a boar represent a need to tap into one's own primal instincts and passions, also this dream about freedom, tranquility and renewal. This dream indicate a desire to embrace one's own strength and assertiveness, or a need to defend oneself against perceived threats, a portent for old memories, your experiences.
This dream also represent a desire for adventure and excitement, means challenges or obstacles that you will confront in the near future. If you are feeling bored or stuck in your daily life, dreaming of a boar indicate a need to take risks and pursue new challenges, an indication for new enlightenment.
Reflect on your own sense of strength and power, draws attention to your ability to adapt to most any situations. Are there areas of your life where you feel particularly empowered or confident? Consider exploring ways to tap into that energy in other areas of your life, refers to fears of losing control of yourself or losing your position or status in life. Consider your own sense of aggression or defensiveness, states your frustrations about not being taken seriously. Are there areas of your life where you feel particularly defensive or confrontational? This dream a sign that you need to find healthier ways to assert your boundaries and stand up for yourself, a sign for your connection to someone in an way. If you are feeling stuck or bored in your daily life, consider exploring new challenges and opportunities, signals a mysterious person in your life who mean you harm. Boars are known for their aggressive and unpredictable nature, a premonition for a life of luxury and ease. In dreams, they represent powerful and primal energies, as well as raw and untamed aspects of yourself, signals feelings of self-esteem. If you dream about a boar charging at you, it indicate that you are feeling threatened or attacked in your daily life, an omen for your drive, energy. This dream a warning to be cautious and alert in your interactions with others, especially those who aggressive or confrontational, symbolises your search for your own comfort zone. On the other hand, dreaming about taming or controlling a boar suggest that you are successfully managing your own primal energies and instincts, refers to your openness to new experiences. You have gained control over your impulsive or aggressive tendencies, and are using your strength and power in a more constructive way, signifies wisdom, faith, valor, peace and purity. You seeking a more authentic and grounded way of living, and are embracing your own natural rhythms and impulses, a signal for your need for cleansing or healing. It is important to pay attention to the details and feelings in the dream to gain a better understanding of its meaning, represents overindulgence.
It is threatening only because it is
threatened! Talk to it, and listen to it; then it may reveal itself as a valuable aide in your quest for happiness or fuller self-realization.
(2) If you associate fertility with the boar, the symbolism may be straightforwardly sexual. On the other hand, the fertility in question may be of a more metaphorical kind: the giving of life to those repressed parts of yourself that frighten you. (Yes, ferocity symbolism may coexist with sexual or fertility symbolism, just as in real life aggression is often mixed in with our sexuality’.) These hidden repressed things may be desires or instinctive drives associated in your life with some traumatic experience.
(3) It may be the animality of the boar that strikes you. The animality’ probably refers to the primitiveness or social unacceptableness of some repressed and buried part of your psyche (see also Animal). Animality’ symbolism, ferocity symbolism and fertility symbolism may all combine in the boar image. That which frightens you by its animality’ may be precisely what you need if you are to get rid of an inner conflict and find peace or fulfilment.
(4) If you associate evil with the boar image, the evilness may be in the eye of the beholder. In other words, if the boar has sexual overtones for you, its evilness may represent your own (irrational, repressed) feelings of abhorrence, disgust, fear or guilt about sex.
If so, you might want to dig into your past to discover the roots of those feelings. Ask the unconscious to assist you in the search, and pay special attention to your dreams over the next week or two.
(5) The boar may represent an aggression that you have not come to terms with in yourself. Aggressiveness may be a good thing - if tamed and properly employed.
If it is Svild’, however, it can seriously damage vour relationships with other people. And, strangely enough, aggressiveness is frequendv directed against oneself: in fact, sadism usually has its roots in masochism. So do take notice of vour dreams, to discover the sources of any aggression you encounter in yourself. Have a dialogue with the boar and find out w hat he wants. Sometimes aggressiveness may be traced back to an Oedipal conflict. In the case of a male, the infant desire for mother and accompanying jealousy tow ards father mav give rise to guilt-feelings which in turn may generate a compulsion to punish oneself The masochistic desire to hurt oneself may then spill over into sadistic desires to hurt other people, particularly those close to us. All this may occur at an unconscious level, so that it is onlv by taking a look at our unconscious (in dreams) that wre can unravel the thread of cause and effect.
As a negative symbol, the boar represents the oneiric personification of cruel and ruthless enemies.
If in the dream the boar is captured or conquered, it portends joy and triumph.
1- One of the wavs in which the dream mind can bring matters to our attention is by a play on words, and since not many people have contact with the animal boar, for this to appear in a dream usually indicates ‘a bore’.
2- By its association with feasting and festivals, the boar can represent lust and gluttony.
3- Abundance and vitality. By- association with mythology and children’s fables it can also represent evil.
Independent.
Volatile or easy to anger.
Stubborn.
Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.
Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.
See also: Animal; Pig
See Pig.
Depth Psychology: The boar in a dream stands for strong erotic desires.
See Animals.
As a cliché, the boar is used to depreciate the personality of some people; e.g., the statement, “they are such a boar.” Perhaps the dreamer is bored by a person or a situation (or have they become the boar?)
If vou dream of being chased by a boar, you will encounter a bitter enemy.
To go on a boar hunt is to labor uselessly.
To kill a boar is to gam a victory over your enemies.
A phallic symbol with the Freudians.
If they appear in dreams, they can suggest protection from danger and hardship in waking life.
chased by a: unsuccessful efforts to stay separation from lover.
in a meeting: another wil undermine your project.
woods, the: find the source of the hostility around you.
zoo, a: a secret wil soon be revealed, but contained.
killing a: advancement in one’s position.
near the herd: your trust in another is destroyed.