To dream of hunting signifies that you are searching for something in your life, whether it is a solution to a problem, a new opportunity or a sense of purpose, refers to a passage of time, self-enlightenment. Hunting also indicates that you have a strong drive to reach your goals and ambitions, signifies survival, beauty, solitude, mystery, self-confidence and pride.
Wild animals: Hunting wild animals such as deer or bears represents your desire to conquer your fears and overcome obstacles in your life, a symbol for your carefree nature. Weapon: The type of weapon you use in your dream indicate your approach to problem-solving, unfortunately fears over some secret matters that you have not shared with anyone. A bow and arrow, for example, suggests that you approach problems head-on with precision and accuracy, while a gun indicates a more forceful approach, points at unexpressed powerful feelings which you are holding back. Prey: The type of prey you're hunting also represent different aspects of your life, indicates masculine power. Hunting birds represent freedom, while hunting a rabbit indicate vulnerability, draws attention to your many resources.
For some religions and beliefs, hunting is seen as a symbol of masculinity or personal strength, sadly draws attention to a release of negative or repressed emotions. In some beliefs, hunting is used to symbolize spiritual ascension or the struggle between good and evil, you have successfully repressed certain negative emotions from surfacing.
In some cultures, hunting represents a rite of passage, particularly for young men, to prove their worth and demonstrate their readiness for adulthood, unfortunately losses and deception. Hunting also be used as a symbol of spiritual attunement or balance with nature, also this dream about the self, wholeness and completion.
If you are experiencing a dream of hunting, it also indicate repressed emotions and desires that you are trying to pursue, signals a helping or protective hand. It time for you to acknowledge these feelings and pursue them rather than repress them, you are aspects of your subconscious in full force.
If you are experiencing dreams of hunting, it helpful to explore the emotions and feelings connected to the dream, unfortunately draws attention to your lacking character. Are you feeling lost and searching for a purpose or direction in your life? Or are you feeling repressed and need to acknowledge your emotions and express your true feelings?, suggests the game of life.
Consider speaking with a therapist or counselor who help you work through these feelings and gain a better understanding of yourself, an evidence for clarity and truth.
Dreaming of hunting symbolize a desire to take control or achieve a goal in waking life, a metaphor for your fear or dissatisfaction of the future. It also represent a search for something, such as answers or knowledge, states your need to explore more possibilities. Hunting also signify a need for adventure or a sense of freedom, signals some hurtful or harmful remarks that you or someone have said. However, the meaning of the dream also depend on the type of animal being hunted, signifies emotions that are dragging you down. If it is a peaceful or harmless animal, the dream represent an inner struggle or conflict, represents unexpected opportunities that will come your way. On the other hand, if it is a predatory or dangerous animal, the dream indicate a need to confront and overcome fears or obstacles in waking life, an indication for anxieties about your performance and abilities.
A desire for conquest.
For what are you currently hunting, and is it truly something over which you should try 7 to take dominion?
Is the creature used as food, or is it being hunted in sport? If for food, this may be a type of hunger dream, or representative of your need for fulfillment.
If being hunted in sport, the animal may symbolize a coveted object or person that remains elusive.
(see Snow)
A potentially hazardous situation. Watch your footing.
The cooling of emotions or a relationship. Frigidity. Halted movement, feeling frozen and unable to act. Being frozen in ice: A type of death or cage dream.
An icicle: The masculine nature.
Making an ice carving: Chipping away at the walls that disguise the true self. Alternatively, a subliminal wish that the object portrayed (or its symbolic meaning) would either manifest or halt completely.
Hail: This ice falls from the sky and barrages the dreamers landscape, symbolizing a torrent of personal, social, political, or religious dogma that seems to overshadow simple, straightforward faith.
(2) Try to identify with or ‘talk5 with both the hunter and the hunted. Usually they will be parts of yourself. Is the hunter your conscious ego? What part of you are you - unsuccessfully - trying to kill? An instinct? Your anima / animus? (For anima / animus, see Brother / Sister, sections
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(3) In a man’s dream a deer may represent a (young) woman; the hunting may be a symbol of sexual pursuit, and sexual ‘conquest5. If so, what is the dream saying about your relations with women and, by implication, with your own anima?
An attempt to feel more powerful by dominating those you consider less powerful (perhaps based on feelings of powerlessness, denial, or lack of awareness).
A desire for an experience or a feeling unrelated to killing (such as solitude or relaxation).
For more clues, consider your feelings, your motivation, and the context.
See also: Searching; Killing; Killed, Being; Chasing; Chased, Being; Net; Attacking; Abuse
The dream of Hunting a Fox, however, shows a risk from clever competition; if you are present at the kill, then you will conquer all difficulties.
For woman, hunting in a dream may represent that she is husband hunting.
2. A feeling that good news, prosperity are in the offing.
3. A quest, most often sexual in nature.
4. A feeling that more effort is required in endeavors.
The way you hunt says a lot about your survival mechanisms. You are becoming aware of the effectiveness of your survival skills.
See Stocking.
If you dream that you hunt game and find it, you will overcome obstacles and gain your desires.
See Gain.
actually: are struggling for a majesty you cannot gain.
being on a, party: intrigues involving one who does not acknowledge your love.
big game: are manufacturing prosperity out of the residue of destroyed animal urges.
changing your place of: success in manufacturing when you change location.
decoy: deceit of someone for whom you have affection.
elk: wil have an awestruck influence over women, leading to intrigues.
fox, a: wil conquer difficulties of lack of trust in close associate.
going: wil be accused by friends of unbecoming behavior.
many people: your endeavors are too weak to conquer obstacles; wil be scandalized.
missing an animal while: failure of own desires to find the truth.
small animals: jealousy, resentment and petty intrigues.
trip, returning from a: are worried about responsibilities left behind.
women: see women as prey, not companions.