Lately, there have been a lot of lions, tigers, and bears in my dreams.
Many of the ones with lions in them were of a lion that kept turning into a person at every corner as it was chasing people down along a highway. I'm still praying about the meaning, but find it fascinating that when I mentioned it to a friend, he said his father taught him an interesting technique for running: imagine a lion is chasing you and you'll run faster.
As for the bears, they have been rare in dreams lately but they are definitely there; mostly black bears... like the ones an aunt and uncle used to have rugs of; one each of them shot. Some of the dreams actually included those bear rugs rather than live bears.
As for the ones with tigers in them, I think in many ways, they are self-explanatory since there is a person named Tiger in my life and tigers have to do with one of the books I'm working on.
Anyone out there have a different take?