Rabbit Dream Meaning

If you are hunting rabbits in your dream, this suggests that you may be feeling criticized, attacked, ‘hunted down’ or hounded. It may also indicate a need to dominate others.

If you dream of a rabbit hole, this is a symbol of self-exploration, of a going within the self into the unconscious; it might also be a symbol of returning to the womb. Are you trying to escape or avoid problems by turning within?

The ancient British fertility goddess Oestre, from whose name we get our word Easter, had a pet hare that laid its egg every Spring Equinox so that life would spread throughout the world.

Dreaming of a rabbit, therefore, especially one that is affectionate and at ease with you, can be a sign of love and domestic happiness ahead.

Dreaming of many rabbits is a sign of new responsibilities - but not unwelcome ones.

A new and wonderful opportunity will come your way - but you’ll enjoy the work required to accomplish it instead of viewing it as a chore.

In Native American mythology, Rabbit is a symbol of needless fear. Therefore, dreaming of a rabbit that is afraid of you means that something in your life is troubling you now - and that your fears are groundless.

See Hare.

Depth Psychology: This animal represents sexual desires and fertility, as well as feelings of inferiority, insecurity, or anxieties hiding in your unconscious. What is making you so timid? Why do you withdraw? Is it because you think you are not good enough? Who is the human predator threatening or chasing you? Analyze this dream carefully!

A dream of rabbits foreshadows that luck in your business enterprises will be immanent and other events will take a favorable turn in your direction.

A dream of white rabbits foretell faithfulness of a lover, and to see them at play are an indication that children will increase your joy.

The Chinese zodiac features the rabbit as a highly peaceful and likeable archetype.

If the rabbit appears in your dreams, any of these qualities may be being expressed.

Sensitivity.

Running from a perceived threat.

Protecting yourself by leaving (a situation, relationship, etc.).

Fertility.

Abundance or proliferation (such as of ideas, opportunities, or to-do list items).

Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.

Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.

See Animal

If in your dream a rabbit disappears through a hole, it can mean you are trying to escape from a problem.

The omens are advantageous if the oneiric rabbits run over a field of green grass.

If you see them locked in hutches, your fortune will decline. And if they are dead it portends a disaster.

(2) Perhaps the rabbit in your dream symbolizes the innocent victim.

If so, the dream may be advising you to stop punishing or blaming yourself and, instead, to accept and love yourself just as you are.

A white rabbit may show us the way to the inner spiritual world and, as such, act as a guide. Also consult the entry for hare in this section.

If the dreamer is hunting wild rabbits, this could suggest that they are being criticized, attacked, ‘hunted down’ or hounded.

See also PETS.

To see white rabbits, denotes faithfulness in love, to the married or single.

To see rabbits frolicing about, denotes that children will contribute to your joys.

See Hare.

A rabbit’s foot in a dream represents superstition or a talisman.

Otherwise, see Hare.

The Easter Bunny brings rewards of sweetness and gifts to celebrate new life.

The magician’s hat from which rabbits materialize gives this animal magical associations.

A demon can manifest itself in dreams as a spirit guide with a human body and rabbit head.

The rabbit was an unclean animal under the Law, Lev. 11:6

2. Good fortune.

3. Change of direction, per­haps career.

4. Steadfastness, fidelity.