Do you ever wonder what dreaming of elephants could mean? A dream in itself is at times so puzzling and mysterious that unless you know the various domains of a dream you will not be able to determine the role you and others play in that particular dream. This is crucial to give the right interpretation and much more.
Then again, what could your dream about elephants signify? Elephants are extraordinary creatures, so massive that they are one of the largest land animals on earth. They are renowned for their intelligence, incredible memory, and many other attributes.
In this post, we will decipher what it means to dream about elephants, what it is trying to tell you and what to do whenever this happens. But first, we need to understand what dreams are in the first place and what happens to our physical and mental bodies when we are in a dreamlike state.
When You Dream About Elephants: Getting to the Bottomline of Dreams
Dreams could be defined as a person’s series of images, thoughts, and sensations that happen when we are asleep. When you go to sleep your deep consciousness will return to a non-physical perspective and withdraw from its physical focus. It’s like an out-of-body experience where there is a higher frequency dimension of reality. This dimension is where the blueprint of manifestation can be found.
Another way to think about it is a dream being an escape, and since it is an out-of-body experience, we would not be able to act out everything that is happening in our dreams. This is a good thing because this can be dangerous to our health. Imagine if your consciousness is not disassociated from your body and your motor function is not disabled. Even if it seems like you have been dreaming all night long, it is simply your brain’s perspective of linear time.
What Happens When We Go to Sleep
So, what takes place when we go to sleep? We are withdrawing our consciousness back to our source perspective. And upon returning to our physical consciousness, we must enable our consciousness to pass through. Then we can become the vibrational equivalent of each of the higher dimensional realities.
Most often, we are in the 5th or 6th-dimensional reality when we are in a dreamscape. When we assume those frequencies, these are then “downloaded” and our brain moves on to translate these downloads. In short, this vibration is actually being downloaded. In short, the mind does make sense of the vibration, and we go on to call these translations, dreams.
What we don’t realize is that our dreams are a direct reflection of what is going on with us vibrationally. When we sleep we’re not in the process of actively creating a reality. However, everything we have been through, and the process of creating are still active within our thoughts and feelings. That is the reason our feelings in our waking life and everything that manifests, in reality, are almost always a perfect match.
Another way to look at it is that dreams can be a preview of your pre-manifested reality. Anything you choose to pay attention to or focus on could eventually manifest in your dream. Why? Because we have no resistance in our sleep. We release resistance while asleep, thus, we are not condemning ourselves, or trying to be convinced that reality is far different than what it actually is. You can then see your vibrational reality for what exactly it is.
Dreams: Random Impulses VS True Meaning
When we dream our vibrational reality is showing up symbolically and it is so meaningful that you can use it for facilitating your own expansion. For years, scientific debates have been going on, arguments about whether dreams actually have meaning or they are simply random impulses going off in our brains. Many people believe however that dreams have 100% meaning and that there’s a good reason why we are able to interpret this meaning symbolically, even across various cultures.
People all over the world have very similar vibrations that we tend to associate with particular things. For instance, everyone could associate earthquakes with tragedy, instability, lack of security, and the feeling of powerlessness. It could have the same meaning for everyone regardless of which country or culture you were raised in.
The question then is, how come it has worked for so many cultures to interpret their dreams in a symbolic way? With such high degrees of accuracy that could even be applied to prophecy? It is because our dreams are a preview of our manifested reality. Whether we dismiss that as a total coincidence or use it to our own advantage is totally up to us.
What Dreaming of Animals Mean
Psychological Meaning
Animals in general could signify a person’s primal, instinctive nature, and at times, our base desires. Our dreams could be drawing attention to this aspect of our nature or the undervalued part of ourselves we try so hard to suppress. When we dream of animals it’s trying to tell us to be more in touch with our natural selves, to be a bit more spontaneous and less rational.
Animals also express specific human qualities. For instance, dogs represent devotion, cats represent amazing intuition, the tiger represents great fear, and a pig could even symbolize gluttony or bad behavior. Just like people, animals represent our good and bad sides. We could be ‘sly as a fox’, a ‘lying snake’, slippery as a fish, or ‘strong as an ox’, and so on.
Mystical Meaning
On the other hand, mystical traditions believe that dreaming of animals is an omen for the future. Peaceful cows and bulls are generally good omens, but dogs, cats, and crocodiles could mean trouble. In some countries, dreaming of a green monkey means medicine won’t work. Even thinking about green monkeys while patients are taking the medicine is believed to stop it from working.
Dreaming of Elephants: What An Elephant Could Mean In Our Dream
Strength and Power
Dreaming of elephants could pertain to power and strength. These majestic creatures could uproot trees on a whim and move heavy objects without difficulty. They are very capable of protecting their herd from dangerous threats in the wide-open spaces they live in. Even the most vicious predators do not stand a chance against them, especially if they join forces.
What does it mean when you dream about elephants? Because of their enormous size and incredible strength, dreaming about elephants could symbolize your need for inner strength and fortitude to overcome great obstacles in life. Do not be dismayed because the Lord is with you wherever you go. So this could be a symbol of strength and power where God is encouraging you to stand tall and be steadfast in faith.
Authority
Dreaming of elephants could also point to leadership and authority. This could be a representation of someone influential, and powerful, and is most likely in a leadership position, especially if you dream that someone is riding or petting an elephant. If it is you yourself who is riding the elephant, this could indicate your spiritual strength or a natural elevation in a specific area in your life.
Large and Influential Ministry
Seeing an elephant in a dream could also indicate a large church ministry or organization in the dreamer’s environment. This ministry or organization has a strong, solid, and stable foundation. But it can go either way, not only can it be symbolic of a large ministry. It could also be speaking of a smaller organization that is making a massive impact on its environment despite its modest size. Thus, your elephant can represent either a small or big group that is making a profound difference in today’s society.
Abundance
In ancient/biblical times, only those who were rich were able to own elephants. The elephant in dream meaning was a symbol of abundance and nobility since it’s no easy feat to take care of these animals. For one to be able to afford care and sustenance for such creatures, one needs to have a lot of power, influence, and resources. Nobles and Kings in the bible had their palaces adorned with ivory made from elephant husks, their garments fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia from ivory. So depending on what is happening to the elephant in your dream, it could mean either material or spiritual abundance.
Self-Control
Elephant symbolism in dreams also points to temperance. These gentle giants know how to practice self-control and will not take advantage of situations. So if you dream about an elephant, it could be reminding you to practice temperance, patience, and self-control. The Bible says God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power, love, and self-discipline.
On the other hand, if the elephant in your dream is violent, or is either attacking you or other people and is wreaking havoc in general, this could be pointing to a certain person or group in the dreamer’s immediate surroundings. They could be violent, domineering, or aggressive. If you see a caged elephant in your dream, this could mean someone in your life, or you yourself have a powerful anointing waiting to unfold. Either you are being held back, or simply have not been released yet.
Negativity
Of course, you have heard the saying about addressing “the elephant in the room”. This saying means there is obviously a problem or issue that needs to be resolved, but for whatever reason, it is actually being ignored. God could use this scenario in your dream to emphasize this issue that is impacting you in a very negative way. The Bible says that whoever conceals their transgressions will not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them will obtain mercy. Thus, you should not ignore this issue much longer since God wants to bring healing and wholeness into your life.
Dreaming of Elephants: How to Interact With Dreams
So what are the things we can do with our dreams, granted we are sold on the idea that they are very important? When we are dreaming of elephants, for instance, start keeping your own ‘dream journal’. From the moment you wake up, jot down all the details you can remember about the dreams you had the night before. What did you feel about all the things you just experienced in your dream?
The way you feel is your biggest chance at figuring out the meaning behind your dreams, especially what these things in your dreams represent symbolically. But one of the best ways to interact with your dreams is also the most accurate way of deciphering them. You must engage in a perception experience.
Engaging In Perception Experience
Start by writing down your dream in the present tense, pretend like it’s playing right before your eyes at this very moment. Don’t say ‘I went here’, rather, say, ‘I’m going here’. Then, becomes the perspective of every significant event in that dream. Try exploring and expressing your perspective as if it is still happening.
Record your feelings and perceptions as yourself within a dream. Then switch your perspective to becoming. Do this with as many elements as possible, whether they are things, people, places, animals, or anything else. Because every aspect of your dream is the expression of yourself and how you perceive life.
In other words, every aspect of a dream is in fact the dreamer, and there isn’t a wrong way of doing this. It is an exploration of your subconscious mind, and by doing this, you allow yourself to reclaim the fracture and reintegrate certain aspects of yourself.
Dreaming Specific Dreams
What about dreaming of something specific? Like elephants, for instance? Well, you can do that by setting a timer and focusing on whatever it is you want to dream about for about five minutes straight. Then tell yourself you want to dream about an ‘elephant in a dream’, for instance. Fill in the blank of whatever it is. This is called intentional dreaming. You can do this with various questions that you want answers to.
Dreams are invaluable aspects of our lives, a window to our subconscious realities, and our inner worlds. They are a way for us to reach progression and in the process become more self-aware. Each and every single one of us dreams, whether we are aware of it or not. We can even say that we are already living our unfinished dream- it’s called life.
