Symbolism of Mice in Dreams: Wealth, Relationships, and Hidden Intentions
(Rodent, Thief, Woman) A mouse in a dream represents a dissolute and sinful woman, a thief, or someone who exposes people’s private lives. Dreaming of mice can carry various meanings based on their behavior and context within the dream.
Mice and Prosperity
To see a large family of mice in one’s house in a dream suggests wealth and prosperity. If a mouse is seen playing in a house with plenty of food, it signifies relief and financial gain. However, if a mouse leaves the house in the dream, it means that blessings will depart from that home, and its earnings will diminish. Owning a pet mouse symbolizes having a servant or housekeeper.
Day and Night Symbolism
A black mouse and a white mouse in a dream represent the night and the day. Seeing a mouse of either color going about its business in the daylight signifies longevity. If a mouse is seen nibbling on one's garment, it suggests that the dreamer will announce their intentions or goals.
Mice as Symbols of Deception and Opportunism
A mouse digging a hole in a dream represents a thief. Mice can also symbolize a girlfriend, an opportunistic woman, or a lady friend hiding her true intentions. Catching a mouse in a dream could mean befriending a woman or marriage. Mice may also represent the members of one’s household. Killing or catching a mouse signifies taking advantage of a woman.
Negative Associations with Mice
Throwing a stone or shooting an arrow at a mouse represents backbiting or slandering a contemptible woman. Seeing a family of mice near a well or slanting land may indicate nearing the end of one’s life. A large family of mice inside one’s house could also symbolize a gathering of women or hosting a party.
Mice and Female Relationships
A mouse inside one’s shirt represents a woman friend from whom no good can come. The skin of a mouse signifies a small amount of money taken from a vile woman.
See Also: Thief, Rodent, Woman
[1]A symbol of control and lack of control that you have over the small things in life.
The “small” or unimportant things can also mean those that are invisible.
Mice are often “signs of death” (Death is meant in the sense of completion). They are symbols of nagging thoughts and a nagging conscience. When they become a plague, they are a bad omen. In Goethe’s Faust, mice appear in the form of ghosts that nibble at the Pentagram that is supposed to ban the devil. Gray and black mice in a dream point to bad luck.
The gray and the black mouse may also be a symbol of the shadow, since gray and black are shadow colors.
The positive meaning of this symbol lies in the fact that parents sometimes call their children “little mouse.” It is also the language of lovers who use such endearments.”
According to Mohammed, the mouse represents the “little sinner,” the adulteress. When Faust dances with a witch, a mouse jumps out of her mouth. White mice are believed to be the souls of children and of the poor, and also fever demons.
According to Jung, the mouse is the animal of the soul, the image of a difficult-to-understand reality, the relationship of the dreamer to sexuality, fertility, and the devil or witch.
Folklore: Always has an erotic meaning.
The mouse is the penis escaping into the hole.
[2]To dream of a mouse indicates panic, low self-esteem, and passivity. You may be experiencing feelings of inadequacy and inferiority for not being able to measure up to standards. This dream is telling you that it is time to let your voice be heard and your presence acknowledged, instead of hiding in the sidelines. Alternatively, it is also symbolic of small distractions and annoyances you are experiencing.
The dream may likewise indicate a computer mouse which links you and the rest of the world.
To dream that you have killed or trapped a mouse suggests that there are persons in your waking life that are literally putting you down, To dream that someone is eating a mouse means that there is something that you need to get off your chest, which may be guilt or a truth that has to be told.
To dream that a mouse is being chased indicates that you are afraid to make a stand. You are allowing other people to boss you around.
[3](See Also: Animals)
Frugality and resourcefulness. Saving and recycling even minute things effectively.
Someone overly soft in voice or who lacks backbone (e.g., being “mousy”).
The size of this creature may reflect an underdeveloped sense of self-worth.
Aesop s Fables portray the mouse as an emblem that makes weaknesses into strengths.
A secret, well-hidden adversary of whom you should become aware. Note too that this enemy may be within.
Mousetraps have become an emblem of ingenuity and tackling a difficult problem with creative insight (e.g., “building a better mousetrap”). They may also be regarded as an alternative cage emblem, where you get caught by, or caught up in, technology.
[4]In British mythology, the mouse is usually portrayed as weak and timid, but blessed with compensatory traits of intelligence, compassion, and resourcefulness.
Dreaming of a mouse, therefore, portends a situation in which the dreamer will be able to turn a weakness into a strength, a disadvantage into an advantage - and thus escape any negative consequences.
Being frightened by a mouse signifies social embarrassment coming up, and if the dreamer wants to avoid it, he or she can look to other symbols in the dream.
Mice scurrying around freely, wreaking havoc in their surroundings, indicate family squabbles ahead.
Seeing a mouse being chased by a cat is a warning not to let others interfere in your affairs.
[5]Suggestive of the mousy, shy or timid part of the self, dreaming of mice could also suggest small but important developments or subtle changes that can gnaw away at our self-esteem. Dreaming that you are a mouse could mean you feel dull, undistinguished and lacking in confidence in waking life. The sexual organ which goes in and out of a hole is another association.
If a person sees a mousetrap or a mouse caught in a trap, it could mean they need to watch out for people who gossip or take advantage of them.
[6]To see a mouse, whether in a dream or real life, is considered a positive omen. Good fortune is on its way, and while this may not be a lottery win it will be a surprise that makes you smile. If you’re trying to catch the mouse and it’s running away from you, then this suggests minor complications that relate to your career. Holding a mouse indicates an issue that you’re aware of and dealing with effectively.
[7]The mouse is occasionally associated with the devil. It represents your instincts. It could also be a symbol of timidity or little worries that “gnaw” at you psychologically.
The plague of mice and rats from the story “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” could be interpreted as an allegory for the overcoming of instincts over rational thought.
[8]A mouse is a very small animal and thus symbolizes a sense of timidity through phrases such as “timid as a mouse.” Mice remain mostly hidden behind walls, and in this way they represent ideas that are mostly hidden but that can be heard, figuratively speaking, scratching away underneath the surface or behind the scenes.
[9]This dream may be showing you that you are being nitpicky, scrutinizing every detail, or perhaps you have been careless with dotting i’s and crossing t’s. This dream is showing you the importance in being detail oriented, organized and focused. You may be feeling small and insecure. Consider the feeling tone.
[10]Little fear or irritant that is taking your energy.
If cat is chasing a mouse, implies cat and mouse game with self or others; unwillingness to work on problems and resolve them. Many frustrating relationships are based on cat and mouse game plan. Quiet, shy, colorless, as a mousy person.
[11]Minor irritations; fears and worries, the mousy or timid part of self, the activities within us—our house—which go on unconsciously, which might be important though small, or gnaw away at one; the sexual organ, which goes in and out of a hole.
[12]A mouse in a dream can indicate much scurrying, flitting, and running about—like a scared little mouse trying to hide in a hole and not having to confront things that could get one trapped. (See Also: Rat, Rodent).
[13]The mouse’s quality of timidity can often be addressed in the dreamer, if it is recognized that this can arise from turbulence and lack of understanding. Also consult the entry for vermin in this section.
[14]To dream about a mouse means you have been avoiding an unpleasant situation or person in real life that, if faced, would be less difficult to handle than you anticipate.
[15]A mouse can symbolize the need to sanctify and purify yourself or your surroundings from detestable things, Isa. 66:17
[16]For a woman to dream of a mouse, denotes that she will have an enemy who will annoy her by artfulness and treachery.
[17]1. Timid.
2. Industrious.
3. Vulnerable to harm.
[18]A fearful, timid person, unlike a rat; see “rat”
[19](See Also: Mice).
[20]See Also: animals.
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