Rats in a dream can have many meanings, starting from a sneaky particular person (AKA “rat”) in your life, a problem that is “gnawing” away at you, and even secrets and techniques.

Based on skilled dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg, cultural associations and wordplay come up lots in dream symbolism, with the time period “rat” usually colloquially used to explain an individual who would snitch on you, throw you underneath the bus, or in any other case “rat you out.”

Talking of cultural associations, Loewenberg additionally calls out The Secret of NIMH, a preferred youngsters’s film from the 80’s that has rats as characters. “So rats in a dream can characterize secrets and techniques, due to that affiliation The Secret of NIMH,” she notes.

And when fascinated by wordplay, we affiliate gnawing with rodents, so if there’s some difficulty or person who’s been gnawing away at you, Loewenberg says rats can present up in your goals as a illustration of that misery. Equally, after we get unhealthy information, we would say, “Oh rats,” so the rats within the dream might characterize disappointment or feeling let down, as nicely.

Nonetheless, she provides, solely you possibly can perceive what rats actually characterize to you, and for those who had a candy and affectionate pet rat in childhood, the rat might really characterize an side of your self that is misunderstood.

Listed below are some extra interpretations on rat goals primarily based on the context.