Lion Lioness
Lions appear in many dreams, and usually signifies anger, desire to hurt, aggressiveness; or fear of these feelings in others or ourselves. We may feel fear of our own anger due to it threatening injury to others in a way that would reflect upon self, and devour our other feelings and desires. The lion can often express feelings of love that cannot express normally, and become aggressive instead. If we see someone we love showing interest in another, or if we feel ousted by brother or sister for parents’ love, our feelings may seem to us like a terrible lion. Daniel in the lions’ den is a beautiful symbol representing how these feelings may be calmed and changed if our life is given to the influence of love.
The power of our physical strength, of our temper, of our emotions or sexuality; love that has become anger through jealousy or pain; leadership; ones father or fatherhood, or mother if it is a lioness; an image of the father/mother God; leadership; watchfulness or guardianship; self assertion or boasting because of the power of the lions roar. The story of Androcles and the lion shows how the pain felt by our ‘animal’ life process, if tended by the conscious personality, brings a loving relationship between conscious and unconscious.
Many children experience recurring dreams of a lion chasing them through their house. This is most likely due to a developing struggle with their natural feelings of anger and aggression. This because their parents might attempt to quieten or control the child’s temper, or criticise it as ‘bad’.
Being frightened of an attack or possible attack from a lion suggests an ‘attack’ of anxiety or fear about something. Consider the rest of the dream to define what.
Many people dream of being chased or run in fear when they see a lion in their dream. But your dreams are simply a projection of your own emotions or fear upon the screen of your sleeping mind. So why don’t you rerally express those emotions instead of being afraid of your own feelings. Why not roar back!!?? But please see Nothing can Hurt You in Your Dreams
As an example of what you can do in your dreams, here the dreamer ‘roars’ back!
Example: When I arrived at the attic I put the dog down. But now the attic was empty and dark. I could feel my hair stand on end and my skin ‘crawling’. Actually I feel it all again as I write this. The feeling arose because there was an unformed dark shape creeping around at the far end of the room. The dog was really afraid and came into my arms. Then the dark creature leapt at me, transforming into a massive mouth with huge fangs and awful demonic face. Immediately I leapt at it in the same way and smashed against its face with my own huge fangs. This utterly disarmed it because it had felt, in its primitive way, to terrify me. It surprised me too that I could so immediately transform into a monster when necessary.
Example: A huge black panther chased me. I fell and it clawed my back. I/it was about to chew my back to bite me. I didn’t know whether to relax or struggle. After being floored by the Panther I managed to get up. I later did active imagination. I allowed the panther to eat me, and I thus became the panther. Then I, as the panther, noticed a tiger. Feeling enormous temper – anger – hate I leapt upon the tiger to claw and devour it. I really felt strong temper. It kept really appearing to get smaller and smaller. Eventually I saw it as just a toy cuddly tiger. Then its head came off as a pantomime horse does, and I was amazed to see that my cousin Sidney was inside it, who I felt had mercilessly teased me as a child. The panther was my own feelings of anger.
As an astrological sign, the lion is the sign of Leo, a ‘Fixed’ ‘Fire’ sign. In the dream of a person born with the sun in Leo, the lion may represent their basic character. It is said to be the heart of the Zodiac. In it all the activities of Aries have been concentrated and given purpose, permanence, passion and a certain nobility. It is the Royal Sign denoting Love, the Ruler of Life. Subjects of this sign are said to be proudly ‘faithful’ and scorn what is weak, small-minded, or mean. It is the sign of the Sun – the physical and also the Divine Sun. In terms of human evolution the sign of Leo represents rulership of the animal kingdom, to become a dominant creature, expressing the best of the instinctive and natural within human nature. Thus in The Witch and The Wardrobe, the greatest strength and unifying influence is the lion. But there is a step beyond this into independent awareness where one recognises oneself not only as the powerful and creative universal animal life, but as an individual human being as well.
Useful questions and hints:
Are there signs that this is about anxiety or anger – if so can I define what they connect with?
If the lion suggests strength and protectiveness, am I relating well to it?
What do I feel if I imagine myself as the lion?
What are the key words I use in describing this dream?
See: key words – Being the Person or Thing – Mammal Brain
Comments
I knew there was a male lion and I saw the female lioness, there were people around and I knew theyvwere dangerous, I was trying to get them behind a metal cage, it was hot in there, and I was not comfortable with that, so I started the white one…to save the people around, IDk hell
Okay for some reason three lionesses get into a hospital and there’s this nurse and she finds them in the nursery around a baby girls cradle, she tries to fight them away from the girl instead of calling for help (and for some reason with a fire extinguisher??) and with one she did fight away and it simply vanishes, the other two lionesses run off with the girl and the nurse chases them and after awhile manages to get the girl back and fight the other two lionesses off she got the first lioness earlier in the chase and faced down with the other at a dead end in a hallway, also to say the hospital was abandoned, not like raggedy just no one but the nurse there
Hello tony,yesterday i dream of a lioness very much aggresive..Attacking everyone it see..,animals and human both..near my home..When it sees me..It comes to me.But i manged to get in my house and closed the door..But it started to hit the door with its head ..Roaring..then it caught my hand and i was awken….Please explain the meaning of my dream..
Hi – It is important that you read https://dreamhawk.com/forums/index.php?topic=529.msg1472#msg1472
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Pooja – Your dream is about your own angry feelings that you are holding back, that is why it is trying to get through to you.
You closed the door on those feelings. But perhaps if you imagined yourself as the angry lioness and allowed yourself to feel her/ your own feelings you will understand.
Hello Tony! Last night I dreamed a lion urinating in me and urine touched my little girl too. The lion wasnt agressive, just saw him walking near us and then spraying urine on us, more over on me. My daughter is a Leo borned in 2015. What coul be thia dream mean?? Thank you!!
Hi – The answers I give arise not out of me thinking up things to say, but from fifty years of exploring dreams in depth. So some of what I write may seem wild. This may be because dreams arise and are experienced by a level of your mind or awareness that very few people have any concept or experience of – usually called the unconscious. Life dreamt in its creatures millions of years before even humankind awoke and developed self awareness or language. So to understand dreams we need to leave our thinking minds behind and go into our feelings and reactions – a much older level of awareness.
But it would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonor http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Ella – Lions spray urine to mark their territory. Also lions protest their territory.
So your dream was saying that the lion would protect both of you, especially your daughter. So put a picture of a lion where you both can see it.
I had a dream of a lioness loose in a zoo and I climb a structure to escape from its grasp. The lioness tries to get hold of me from the structure where I am at a certain height thinking the lion will not get to me and I fall into a den where 2 others were being fed and this lioness attacks me. I try to split open it’s mouth…. and I wake up
Hi – The answers I give arise not out of me thinking up things to say, but from fifty years of exploring dreams in depth. So some of what I write may seem wild. This may be because dreams arise and are experienced by a level of your mind or awareness that very few people have any concept or experience of – usually called the unconscious. So their view of dreams arise from their thinking mind, a very different creature than the thing giving you Life. Life dreamt millions of years before even humankind awoke and developed self awareness – a very young and precocious child. So I try to describe what takes place in the deeps of you.
But it would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/news/summing-up/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonor http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Yeshwanth – Your dream shows that you have kept a part of your natural self caged up, restricted and maybe repressed. Please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
Your attempts to deal with that part of you are ways you weaken your own character. You are like a conscious rider of an ancient beast, your body. And this body still carries within it all its ancient history. There in your brain is the reptile, the snake, called the reptile brain; and then it became the mammal and sitting, often uncomfortably, is You. If you learn to relate to all of your wonderful abilities you will sit more comfortably.
Hi. Last night I dreamt a lion befriended me. I was at some kind of zoo but I was seeing it from the inside like a was a guest being shown up close. Somehow o ended in the jungle like enclosure. Mostly lions but also had panthas and animals for them to hunt. Well felt like a long dream ended in the male lion coming to me and allowing me to bond with him. I was always weary but fell inlove with him and all his aww. I never wanted to be apart from him. It was an Amazing energy.
First time I’ve ever dreamt of a lion. Just a magical dream.
Hi – It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Tina – Yes, it is certainly a magical dream, for it shows you accepting and feeling love for your roots as an animal, your mammalian past. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
I think it would open great doors of experience leading to insight if you used http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson
The zoo shows how your spontaneous natural urges are trapped by social conventions. It might suggest that you at first you find it safer to see your natural urges and drives caged/repressed because it seems safer.
But you moved onto a jungle environment, it can point to a change in the way you are dealing with life and your inner world, so it can be an initiation into new areas of experience. And that was shown to be true when you got past your initial, “I was always wary” feelings and found love.
Hi Tony,
I dreamed last night that a lioness was loose in an Apt complex. I called my mom to warn her however she could not understand what I was saying. I told her in English and Spanish. I woke up not feeling so well.
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Mary – A lioness represents your own female instinctive and powerful self. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
It is loose suggests something has woken up this force in you, but your reaction seems one of anxiety, especially about your mother. But it might be about your inner mother rather than the outer one — many people do not realise that they have an inner mother equally as powerful as an external mother. You have taken in millions of bits of memory, lessons learnt, life experiences along with all the feelings or problems met by loving and living with your mother, and they are a major influence in your early life, and in a few cases the child never becomes independent from its mother at any age. This is true even if your mother was never there for you – you still have all the memories of her not being there for you filed under ‘Mother’. The memories and experience we gather unconsciously change us and are not lost. It is part of you and is symbolised in dreams as a person or event. Such an inner mother can appear in dreams because you are still deeply influenced by what you hold within you. The inner mother can also signify what has been received via genes passed on or ancestral influences.
So ask yourself whether there are things you haven’t sorted out between you and your mother. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/
I keep having this reoccurring dream of lionesses and lion trying to come in my home I’ve dreamt this 4 times with similar characteristics. There always trying to get in.
The one this am one of them was blue but with a lady’s face she ate my roommates cat I watched her.
One of the previous dreams I there was a leopard as well in it.
I’m just wondering why I keep having these dreams. The one this morning I couldn’t move to wake up, I tried.
Just curious
Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also, I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.
It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/ which has so much information in.
Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do this by practising what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson or http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/getting-at-your-dreams-meaning/
Tony
Melissa – We are all a strange mixture of animal and human. Please see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
In dreams we try to find a way of integrating these parts of ourselves, but people often avoid this because of the waking feelings about wild animals. The Lioness with lady’ face was an example of the wild meeting the human. As a mixture it naturally ate the cat.
Try being the creatures by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson