Unlike the diligent ant, the anteater is an animal that may come to destroy what you have built.
It is not necessarily an adversary, because it may be taking away what you were working on so that you can pursue your true or greater purpose.
The anteater may be saying that you need not work so hard on fruitless projects.
[1]The consciousness of the anteater is to consume and live off of very tiny pieces of sustenance. Ants relate to anxiety, and therefore the anteater is that which feeds off of pervasive anxious thoughts.
A dream with an anteater is about perpetuating such states.
[2]To dream about an anteater signals that you must be very careful about when completing financial arrangements.
[3]Symbolic of something that destroys what others have worked hard to build
[4]1. Phallic symbol.
2. One who works against group efforts.
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