Jo – This is an excellent example of how dreams try to teach us things. Of course dreams express in a very ancient language, language that developed in ancient life forms before ever words were invented. The ancient language is one of example, the language that has taught youngsters for millions of years by watching what mother or father fox, bear wolf did – all without words. See the Bear picture -
https://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/bear/You have the same example in your dream but didn’t catch on, “Some people were calm and the idea was those who stayed calm, the tiger would never chase them.”
Unfortunately about 98% of people were never taught recognise that the things we learn in the external world do not apply to our inner self. To understanding your dream, you need to realise that the images in our dreams are just emotions, thoughts, fears, traumas, ideas, and feelings projecting out of you and appearing as images of people and things as scenes outside you on the screen of your mind.
So whenever we dream its images are not like real life, because a dream is nothing like outer life where things could hurt you, but is an image like on a cinema screen, so that even if a gun is pointed at you and fired it can do no damage – except if you run in fear; so, all the things that scare you are simply your own fears projected onto the screen of your sleeping mind. In the early days of moving pictures, a film was shown of a train coming fast toward them; the viewers all fled in terror, fearing the train would crush them. That is exactly the same response if you are terrified of any thing you dream of. See
https://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/masters-of-nightmares/ Example: I was standing on my patio and there was a bear inside the fence also there were children taunting the bear. I yelled at the kids to stop teasing the bear. Then all of a sudden the bear came towards me; it was a brown bear with its massive size and it stopped and looked at me. Although I was frightened I was courageous enough to pet the bears head, reaching over his large mouth to reach his head. Then, all of a sudden the bear lay on his back and I begin to brush my hand on his chest as to pet him in a downward motion, the bear just gazed at me.
Tony