In general, the elephant represents strength, intelligence, patience and wisdom, suggests a simpler time or to a time where you felt a certain way.
If you dream about riding an elephant, it a sign that you are preparing for a big life change, means a rapid climb to success.
A dreaming elephant also mean that you are in a relationship or a situation have in your life that you are unable to express, points at domesticity, ease, comfort and relaxation.
A dreaming elephant also indicate your lack of flexibility and consequences, unfortunately something that has been suppressed, rejected, or denied. If you dream that an elephant is you pursued or attacked, this represent a lack of freedom of movement or options for action, means some aspects of your are too tightly controlled or that are repressed.
A white elephant indicate a desire to gain spiritual or religious wisdom, while a black elephant indicate your fear or difficulty with anything dark and inexplicable represent, sadly a warning alert for indecision, confusion, missteps, feeling lost or being misled.
In summary, a dreaming elephant generally stands for strength, wisdom and perseverance and indicate that you are preparing for a big change in life, signifies frustrations or obstacles that are hindering your path toward your goals.
General interpretation: Elephant is a symbol of strength, power, and stability, suggests a positive outlook to your day. If you dream of an elephant, it suggests that you have a strong personality and leadership qualities, states an end to an addiction. It also indicate that you need to be more patient and persistent in your pursuit of goals, means emotional need for some sensual stimulation. The elephant dream also signifies good fortune and prosperity, an evidence for feelings of rejection or of not being able to keep up.
By Symbols: If you see a white elephant in your dream, it signifies purity, loyalty, and good luck, draws attention to your own personal feelings of being unworthy. A baby elephant represents innocence, playfulness, and immaturity, there is balance in your life. If you are riding an elephant in your dream, it suggests that you have control over your life and emotions, a metaphor for the beauty within. If the elephant is attacking you, it suggests that you are feeling powerless in a situation, a sign for your endurance and willpower.
By Religions/Beliefs: In Hinduism, the elephant is the incarnation of the god Ganesha, the remover of obstacles, control is a signal for a lack of progress, freedom and independence. Dreaming of an elephant indicate that you will overcome your problems and obstacles, a signal for your expanded awareness. In Buddhism, the white elephant is a symbol of Buddha's birth, a signal for the feminine aspects of your character. Dreaming of a white elephant signify spiritual purity and enlightenment, denotes strength, longevity, immortality, faithfulness, durability and fertility.
By Cultures: In African culture, the elephant is a symbol of wisdom, dignity, and strength, symbolises warmth. In Chinese culture, the elephant represents fertility, longevity, and success, hints relationships. In Native American culture, the elephant is a symbol of power and royalty, denotes dignity and power.
Psychologically: Dreaming of an elephant indicate that you need to be more patient and persistent in your actions, hints your giving nature. It also signify your desire for power and control, a portent for restraint. The dream represent your subconscious mind's attempt to deal with a current issue or problem, expresses within yourself that you are able to control.
Suggestions: If you dream of an elephant, take it as a sign of good luck and prosperity, indicates greed or lack of psychological nourishment. Use its energy to stay focused and motivated towards your goals, signals your need for spiritual support and nurturance. Also, remember to practice patience and persistence, signals something that is just beyond your grasp. Do not give up on your dreams, and keep moving forward with determination, a sign for your commitment on a set course.
Dreaming of an Elephant symbolize strength, power, and wisdom, a signal for memories of images from your past. It represent a need to be more grounded and stable in life, or to take a more mindful approach to decisions, points at the things that you hold close and value. It also be a sign that you need to be more mindful of your emotions and the emotions of those around you, represents calmness, peace and serenity. Alternatively, it a sign that you need to take on more responsibility or put in more effort in order to achieve success, a harbinger for your aggressive anger toward a particular person.
Elephants exhibit many positive attributes, including affection and loyalty. Consider how much of both you have given to yourself, or to those around you, and vice versa.
These creatures also have a strong sense of smell that affords discernment. How does your present situation smell? Is something amiss?
An affinity for nature worship. According to Pliny, this creature worships the sun and stars, and invokes the heavens.
In ancient Rome, this image appeared on coins representing the power of charity. Does someone around you have a need that you’ve overlooked?
Among Hindus, the elephant symbolizes wisdom. Ganesha, the god of sagacity, is an elephant, often portrayed dancing.
Buddhists regard the white elephant as emblematic of compassion, love, kindness, self- restraint, and patient endurance, revealing the emergence of such positive traits within you. Note, however, that Western society transforms this image’s meaning to that of useless decoration (e.g., a “white elephant sale”), which might reflect a lack of self-worth or feeling ineffectual in a specific situation.
Chinese: Prudence and independent authority over self, others, or a situation. Don’t be afraid to take charge!
In modern aphorisms, a pink elephant represents being deluded by your own senses. Such delusion usually comes by your own hand (as happens when one drinks too much alcohol).
Vision: In a woman’s dream the elephant is a symbol of male strength.
The elephant indicates that a job is going well, and success almost guaranteed. But the dream might also be a warning: don’t be reckless, don’t be a “bull in a china shop.” Riding an elephant: good luck in your marriage; or you will meet a nice person. Seeing an elephant in a circus: people will think of you as foolish.
Depth Psychology: The elephant is a symbol of being steadfast, as it patiently carries a burden.
It is also a sign of a sexuality ruled by rationality.
The dream is a statement: you are strong enough to deal with any obstacles you might have to face.
It is only a warning if you are thick-skinned and overbearing—if that is true, try to be more tactful.
The power of the unconscious is not available to you, and you are afraid of it. Points to thick-skinned people who are unaware of their destructive powers (the elephant in the china shop). Warning of one’s own repressed sexuality.
A need to be more patient (thick-skinned), or perhaps you have too much patience. Tusks and trunk are sexual symbols.
The image of a sick or weak elephant points to emotional injuries.
If it is a peaceful elephant, you are handling your unconscious comfortably.
According to early Christian belief as described in Physiofogus , one of the most widely read books of the Middle Ages, the elephant has no sex drive and is a powerful enemy of Snakes. Elephants’ hair and bones were burned inside the house as a protection against evil spirits.
It is also associated with long memory and “thick skin”. You may be making efforts to remember something important and of great magnitude.
If the elephant is pleasant and friendly you will have good luck in what you are undertaking to do.
If you are riding the elephant, you will have much success.
If you see an elephant performing, as in a circus, you will be surrounded by happy, loving people.
If you see the elephant working, you will have success above your wildest dreams. Another meaning of the elephant dream has to do with whether or not you are seeking answers, or go to sleep with a particular problem on your mind, in which case the elephant denotes the key to knowledge and truth, and after sight of the elephant you will be told the answer.
If other people are riding the elephant, it could suggest help from a friend or a close strong friendship. To feed an elephant suggests meetings with people in key positions.
If you run from a herd of stampeding elephants, this could suggest being afraid of your own strength or inner power.
If a rogue elephant stampedes, it could represent a chaotic element in yourself that threatens to wreak havoc in the waking world if it isn’t controlled. The question is, can we meet this enormous strength and energy in ourselves and learn to direct it positively? The elephant’s trunk is sometimes said to be a sexual symbol indicating the ability to satisfy needs.
If the elephant is friendly and happy, expect a change in your luck for the better.
If the dreamer was riding an elephant, this indicates a rise in social status.
A performing elephant augurs new friends, while a working elephant hints at success through your own efforts.
Even an angry or frightened elephant, or even if they attack you, is not all that bad an omen. It only implies delays in the attainment of your goals.
If the elephant is pleasant and friendly you will have good luck in what you are undertaking to do, and if you are riding on the beast you will have much success.
If you see an elephant performing, as in a circus, you will be surrounded by happy, loving people, and if you see the elephant doing a job you will have success above your wildest dreams. Another meaning of the elephant dream has to do with whether or not you are seeking answers, or go to sleep with a particular problem on your mind, in which case the elephant denotes the key to knowledge and truth, and after sight of the elephant you will be told the answer.
Strong presence.
Royalty.
Honoring or elevating someone.
Slowness.
An issue of size or amount.
An unusual or highly developed ability (as elephants are skilled at using their trunks).
Communication that’s stealthy or that certain groups can’t understand or aren’t aware of (as in the low-frequency elephant communications that humans can’t hear).
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
If it behaves defensively it denotes the introverted part of yourself.
Hindu people have an elephant-headed god called Ganesha: a divine strength that removes obstacles. Similarly, the western oneiric interpretation has always believed in the elephant as a sign of good luck.
Performing they signify helpful friends and/ or associates.
Working, they indicate assured success in all your undertakings.
If you fed it, watered it, rode, or sat on it, you may expect a sudden rise of status or other improvement through a sheer lucky break or the discovery or return of something you thought irretrievable.
Even the adverse aspect of this beast, which is if it frightened or attacked you, isn’t really dreary, as it signifies annoying but temporary obstacles to your progress.
The Hindu god Ganesh has an elephant head and is thought to bring luck by being the remover of obstacles. He will also bring an obstacle if that is in your highest interest. When the elephant appears in a dream, you are being given the medicine of patience, strength, and the capacity to move through anything. Also to be considered is the notion that elephants “never forget.” Your dream of an elephant may be asking you to remember something about your authentic self.
To see many elephants, denotes tremendous prosperity. One lone elephant, signifies you will live in a small but solid way.
To dream of feeding one, denotes that you will elevate yourself in your community by your kindness to those occupying places below you.
If you feed an elephant in your dream, you will elevate yourself in your community through your kindness.
To dream of riding on the elephant signifies good news from afar. But to dream that you fell off while riding it suggests enemies are looking to harm you.
The Hindu God Ganesh, depicted as an elephant, is the deity of wealth, prosperity, and great abundance. Dreams of elephants also represent the ability to break down barriers and challenges to success, as well as the ability to truly own one’s power, strength, and greatness.
(2) Particularly for anyone acquainted with Indian religious ideas or iconography, an elephant may represent some power, available within you, to clear away whatever prevents you from achieving your goal. (Ganesha, the Hindu elephant god, is the great ‘obstacle remover5.)
If we run from the elephant we are afraid of our own strength or inner drive. Idioms: white elephant; pink elephants; rogue elephant.
See the self under archetypes.
Performing elephants are an omen of a happy family life.
Elephants at work foretell prosperity in business.
To ride one, you have the power.
To see one pass by, you will be in touch with power and may be able to make use of it.
2. Prominent person (Christ); 2Timothy1:7
3. Powerful ministry; 1 John 4:4;
4. Large influence;
2. Someone is dangerously overweight.
An elephant in a dream also signifies arrogance. Riding an elephant or controlling it in a dream means establishing ties with a leader or a politician and profiteeringfrom one’s connection. It also means living a long and a prosperous life. Riding an elephant during the nighttime in a dream means rising in rank, and should one be suited for leadership, he will receive it then engage in a war which he will lose. Riding an elephant during the daylight hours in a dream means divorce, perfidy, betrayal or deceit. Milking an elephant or taking something out of its trunk in a dream means either extortion or receiving lawful money from a powerful person.
It is also said that an elephant in a dream represents a mighty king who is gracious and generous, patient and tender hearted.
If an elephant hits someone with his trunk in a dream, it means receiving benefits from such a person or inheriting something from him, receiving a political appointment, or becoming wealthy through high connections.
An elephant in a dream also represents righteous people, scholars and noble ones.
An elephant in a dream also denotes hardships, toiling, then relief from adversities. Seeing an elephant in a dream and failing to ride on it means lack of integrity or loss of business. Seeing a dead elephant in a dream means that the ruler or a great person from that land will die, or that a noble person will be killed. Seeing an elephant in a land other than its native land in a dream means adversities.
If one faces a threatening elephant in a dream, it means an illness. Ifone falls under the feet of an elephant in a dream, it means his death. Speaking to an elephant in a dream means receiving a precious gift from someone in authority. Running away in fear of an elephant in a dream means being persecuted by someone in authority. Riding an elephant during a war in a dream means defeat and subsequent destruction. Eating elephant’s meat in a dream means money. As for worldly people, seeing an elephant in a dream means benefits, but as for pious and religious people, it denotes adversities. Riding an elephant in a dream also may denote lies or oppression.
An elephant entering a land other than its natural habitat signifies an official visit of a king or a president to another country, or it could mean invading it.
being free, an: wil enjoy much independence and influential connections.
circus, at a: danger of a relative’s death through foolishness.
escaping from an: be steadfast and patient amidst family quarrels.
feeding an: a person of solid character wil befriend you.
giving water to an: wil be of service to an influential person.
mammoth, of an Indian: obstacles confront you; sit high and watch the conflict.
cage, being in a: the power of spirit manifesting.
trained, being: your unconscious needs conscious direction.
many: your remarkable memory wil lead your prosperity.
others with: fear and danger for those who would not al ow positive thinking.
poor person dreaming of an: with cooperation you can achieve tremendous prosperity.
riding an: your reckless brute force can cause damage.