Rabbit
Sexuality
Due to human associations with its rapid breeding; softness and non aggression, sometimes to the point of depicting us as a victim, or foolishly passive may thus represent unworldly idealism. Perhaps because of its tendency to be the victim of predators, is often used as a sacrifice in dreams, which suggests the hurt we might experience to the soft, vulnerable parts of our nature as we experience the pain of meeting reality in the maturing process; feeling hounded by someone; ones vulnerable child self; docility or humility.
If the dreamer hunts rabbits
Some element of self or others being criticised, attacked, ‘hunted down’ or hounded; instinctive urge to dominate.
Pet rabbit
Wanting to be petted or cared for; gentle contact and caring; responsibility.
Rabbit hole
Alice down the rabbit hole illustrates this – a going within self; into the unconscious; the womb; attempting to escape from problems by turning within. See: unconscious.
Rabbit in your garden
A quiet attack on your resources or personal growth; also may connect with the general definitions above.
EXAMPLE: Then they brought in a white rabbit, and thrust its eyes through with heated irons. And as I gazed, the rabbit seemed to me like a tiny infant, with human face, and hands which stretched themselves towards me in appeal, and lips which sought to cry for help in human accents. And I could bear no more, but broke forth into a bitter rain of tear. Anna Kingsford, From Dreams and Dream-Stories.
EXAMPLE: The nightmares returned – one terrible one in February 1896 about a tramp, seen holding over a well ‘washing, but with a kind of amused tenderness, an object that I thought was a rabbit, but I presently saw that it was a small deformed hairy child, with a curious lower jaw, very shallow: over the face it had a kind of horny carapace. . . made of some material resembling pottery. ….. The horror of it exceeded all belief.’ A. C. Benson, quoted in David Newsome, On the Edge of Paradise.
These two examples show how our dream process links the vulnerability of rabbits with childhood or children, and our own vulnerability and human pain.
Useful questions are:
What part or role in my dream is my rabbit playing?
Can you I words to it?
If the dream rabbit is vulnerable what vulnerability in me is this reflecting?
If the rabbit transforms into something stronger in what way am I myself changing?
If I stand in the role of rabbit what do I feel? (For help doing this see Stand in Role under peer dream work.
Comments
in my dream there were a litter of baby rabbits
except for one baby rabbit appeared to be more advance then the others, what I mean is he acted more of an human toddler than a rabbit. I took on the rabbit as though it was a child and raise the rabbit to its fullness. the rabbit spoke and was taught as if it was a normal child. once it became an adult it resented me for taking him away from his litter
Adneva – We can think of this as the story of human life. Way back we were an animal, one of many who had no sense of separateness and we part of the ‘family’. Then one or two were a bit different and so began a journey leading to human life and self awareness. Self awareness is a very heavy load to carry; so much so a large portion of humans break done, or they depend on drugs such as nicotine, alcohol, anti-depressants and harder drugs to feel normal.
So your dream seems to say that your animal self, something we all carry within us, resents being made into a human with the great load of consciousness. It would rather be lost in the animal consciousness without self awareness.
Perhaps you can talk to it and say, “I love you and that is why I chose you. If we work together it can be a good life for both of us”.
Tony
In my dream white baby rabbits was just coming out of nowhere jumping all over me and i was scared..What does that means
Hi,
Last night I dreamt about a rabbit dying in front of me ( the image looked a lot like the cover of Watership Down, a favourite of mine so no surprise I got that image). I also dreamt about a bull being stabbed and killed by the matador, strange that they are two different animals being killed as I watch. Could there be a link? Thanks
Brian – This just a wild guess, but are you are Taurean with the Chinese birth sign of the Rabbit?
But getting to the dream – I think, because you linked Watership Down with rabbits the meaning of the rabbit is in what you feel about the book. But in general rabbits often suggest vulnerability, but vulnerability that survives against all odds.
The bull, like the rabbit is also about sexuality, but in the bull is the strength of it. So killing two animals, the bull as a sacrifice in the bullring, says that a part of you has died. It is a death that sometimes leads to new life, a life if our inner world. You could find out by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-exploring-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Tony