Dreaming of seeing rats have different meanings, a metaphor for passage of time. Rats often symbolize negative traits such as disease, depravity, and deceit, an omen for your ability to connect with others in a way. It mean that you are afraid of being cheated by someone or that you feel that you are being negatively influenced by someone close to you, suggests a desire to reveal more of yourself.
If you dream of killing rats, it mean that you are able to overcome your fears and problems, symbolises a prior relationship that you still back fondly on. On the other hand, if the rats are attacking you, it mean that you are having trouble defending yourself against the negative influences in your life, security, basic needs and values.
Dreaming about seeing many rats also mean that you feel that you are surrounded by a group of people who harm you, two previously conflicting aspects are merging together as one.
If you dream of seeing rats, it an invitation to delve deeper into your fears and concerns to look and look for ways to overcome and heal them, means an extension of your understanding in a particular matter.
Seeing rats in dreams suggests the presence of something unpleasant, scary, or unsanitary in one's waking life, a warning signal for low esteem. It represent feelings of fear, anxiety, or disgust, signals boundary between your personal public self. It also implies hidden or disguised enemies, thieves, or backstabbers that harm one's personal or professional life, how your buttons are being pushed by someone. Alternatively, it indicate possible health issues or diseases that one face soon, hints a slippery or elusive situation.
Brown rats: They represent greed, poverty, and unpleasant news, an evidence for an emotional outlet to help ease your mind. Black rats: They symbolize betrayal, suspicion, and secret enemies, an omen for your desires for freedom. Dead rats: They signify the end of a threat or danger, but also warn of past mistakes that still haunt one's mind, expresses a powerful or overbearing woman in your life. Many rats: They suggest overwhelming problems or situations, as well as a need to be more cautious and prepared in life, a message for freedom from restrictions.
Christianity: Rats denote sins, temptations, and deceit, a metaphor for your strength, ambition, competitive nature decisiveness and willpower. Hinduism: Rats are seen as the mount of Lord Ganesha and represent intelligence, sharpness, and prosperity, a signal for unknown. Chinese culture: Rats symbolize wealth, fertility, and longevity, an indication for some painful emotion that you are refusing to confront.
Western culture: Rats are often associated with dirt, filth, and disease, an indication for weakness or subtlety. African culture: Rats are regarded as messengers of death and disaster, indicates your lack of originality. Native American culture: Rats represent thievery, mischief, and disobedience, signals a lack of maturity or capabilities.
It also relate to one's subconscious cravings, desires, or impulses that considered taboo or harmful, draws attention to ambivalence, dualities or opposites. Therefore, seeing rats in dreams an invitation to confront, acknowledge, and deal with one's fears and desires constructively, a premonition for unity, completeness, acceptance or agreement.
Avoiding negative thoughts: Try to stay positive and avoid ruminating over negative thoughts or emotions, states spring birth, new growth, longevity and love. Confronting one's problems: Instead of running away from the problem, try to face it head-on and find solutions, your inability to make connections. Seeking help: If the problem seems too overwhelming, do not hesitate to seek professional help or support from friends and family, hints cluttered of ideas.
If you felt fear or disgust while seeing the rats, it symbolize negative thoughts, feelings, or situations that are affecting your life, a metaphor for dietary balance. You feeling overwhelmed or threatened by something or someone, suggests the many obstacles, that you will need to overcome as your move toward your goals.
On the other hand, seeing rats in a positive light, such as seeing them play or interact in a friendly manner, represent a time of abundance, resourcefulness, and adaptability in your life, refers to your in some situation.
Additionally, seeing rats also represent hidden fears or anxieties that you need to confront and resolve, symbolises prestige, in your relationship or career. It also be a reminder to take care of your physical and mental health and to pay attention to the people and situations around you, an omen for the carefree aspects of childhood where you did not have to worry about goals.
Dreaming Lens: Where were the rats in your dream? Was there just one or was there an infestation? Were you frightened of them? Were they being destructive? Were they harmless? Were they pets?
Personal Focus: Rats are considered pests as they can overpopulate and bring with them destruction and disease. They are inexorably bound up in our history to the bubonic plague, because rats carried the fleas that transmitted the disease. The consequences for not attending to them properly are recorded in our mythology as a loss of innocence, as in the story of The Pied Piper of Hamlin who, when not paid for his services of ridding the town of their rats, took away the children of the town and led them to their deaths. This adds the element of a loss of innocence as a possible interpretation if your dream reflects this theme.
Rats can be found in sewers, basements, and dark corners. This expands their association with Shadow material, which is all the things about ourselves we wish were not true or that we would rather not look at. If rats appear in your dreams in any fashion, there is something to investigate under the surface. The consequences of not exploring these dark places are that it can lead to some sort of destruction.
An interesting juxtaposition to all this darkness is that laboratory rats, which live in sanitary conditions and are usually white in color, are responsible for enormous benefits to mankind by giving up their lives for scientific experimentation. More has been done with rats to advance science and medicine than with any other animal. The meaning here is that if you diligently and systematically investigate your Shadow, enormous benefits can come to you and your path of transformation.
What the rats are doing in your dream will inform you of where you are in your process of lifting your shadow. If they are very frightening to you, then you are just beginning your search of the underlying troubles in your path. The more open you are to their presence, the more open you are about your own psychic shadow. Needing to exterminate them may parallel a need to uncover, discover, and discard some element of your thinking or behavior. It is important to investigate your personal pestilence. And don’t forget to pay the piper!
The consequences for not attending to them properly are recorded in our mythology as a loss of innocence, as in the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who, when not paid for his services of ridding the town of its rats, took away the children of the town and led them to their deaths. Rats can be found in sewers, basements, and dark corners. This expands their association with shadow material, which is all the things about ourselves we wish were not true or that we would rather not look at.
If rats appear in your dreams in any fashion, there is something to investigate under the surface.
A white rate is an omen that you will receive help from am unexpected source in your time of trouble and distress.
To dream that a rat is biting your feet portrays your daily life as a ‘rat race.’ You have a preoccupation with your ever busy waking life.
The dream’s 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 apprehensive and disgusted. Attempt to connect these feelings with those things that produce this type of anxiety during the day.
2. Difficulties are on the way (many rats).
3. Difficulties are on the way out (white rats).
4. Feelings of upset or disturbed state of being.
5. Smart and pervasive emotions or reactions are underfoot and just out of reach.
2. Unbeliever (unclean animal);
3. Evil spirit;
4. Plague; 1 Sam. 6:4 & 1 Cor. 10:30 (demons); Ps. 22:13.
To kill rats, however, is a good dream (Raphael).
bait for, putting out: your intel igence determines your future.
being bitten by a: envy wil create an archenemy out of a best friend.
catching, in a trap: are disliked by others for your cowardice.
cat, in the house: unfinished business wil become successful.
gnawing: an acquaintance is envious of your life.
killing a: deviousness wil attend al undertakings.
many: serious trouble from another’s dishonesty, leading to poverty.
of: injury caused through deceit and decay of trust.
placing hands on a: wil succeed by dealing with the worst, first.
rat catcher, of a: you wil soon attract a new lover.
catching rats in a field: are committing treason by betraying another’s confidence.
many: wil receive vindication from people who did you wrong.
white: wish ruin of very bad enemies; get over it.
sweethearts dreaming of: fear a rival does not believe you deserve to be so fortunate.
swimming from a sinking ship: row your boat in the other direction.
trap, setting a: that which you have feared wil be tempted to expose itself.
white: don’t fol ow the leader; take the tunnel with the light at the end.