I don't know about others, but if I have the smallest amount of stress, it shows up in my dreams. It sounds like that's whats going on with you maybe? For the last several years, when I have these dreams, I refer to a dream 'dictionary'. It gives me insight into what the theme of my dream means in reality. Now, this is just speculation, but I always feel better after reading them. 99% of the time my dreams normalize and I get finally get some rest! I think that sometimes simply acknowledging a fear or anxiety calms your subconscious down, telling it 'Hey, I'm aware and I'll deal with it'. It can't hurt anyway.
I looked up your dreams on the site I use and here is what is says about them:
Lion Lioness https://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/lion-lioness/
Appears in many dreams, and usually signifies anger, desire to hurt, aggressiveness; or fear of these feelings in others or ourselves. We may feel fear of our own anger due to it threatening injury to others in a way that would reflect upon self, and devour our other feelings and desires. The lion can often express feelings of love that cannot express normally, and become aggressive instead. If we see someone we love showing interest in another, or if we feel ousted by brother or sister for parents’ love, our feelings may seem to us like a terrible lion. Daniel in the lions’ den is a beautiful symbol representing how these feelings may be calmed and changed if our life is given to the influence of the spirit.
The power of our physical strength, of our temper, of our emotions or sexuality; love that has become anger through jealousy or pain; leadership; ones father or fatherhood, or mother if it is a lioness; an image of the father/mother God; leadership; watchfulness or guardianship; self assertion or boasting because of the power of the lions roar. The story of Androcles and the lion shows how the pain felt by our ‘animal’ life process, if tended by the conscious personality, brings a loving relationship between conscious and unconscious.
Many children experience recurring dreams of a lion chasing them through their house. This is most likely due to a developing struggle with their natural feelings of anger and aggression. This because their parents might attempt to quieten or control the child’s temper, or criticise it as ‘bad’. Idioms: Brave the lion’s den; lion’s share; head in the lion’s mouth.
Being frightened of an attack or possible attack from a lion suggests an ‘attack’ of anxiety or fear about something. Consider the rest of the dream to define what.
Idioms: Brave the lion’s den; lion’s share; head in the lion’s mouth.
As an astrological sign, the lion is the sign of Leo, a ‘Fixed’ ‘Fire’ sign. In the dream of a person born with the sun in Leo, the lion may represent their basic character. It is said to be the heart of the Zodiac. In it all the activities of Aries have been concentrated and given purpose, permanence, passion and a certain nobility. It is the Royal Sign denoting Love, the Ruler of Life. Subjects of this sign are said to be proudly ‘faithful’ and scorn what is weak, small-minded, or mean. It is the sign of the Sun – the physical and also the Divine Sun. In terms of human evolution the sign of Leo represents rulership of the animal kingdom, to become a dominant creature, expressing the best of the instinctive and natural within human nature. Thus in The Witch and The Wardrobe, the greatest strength and unifying influence is the lion. But there is a step beyond this into independent awareness where one recognises oneself not only as the powerful and creative universal animal life, but as an individual human being as well.
Useful questions are:
Are there signs that this is about anxiety or anger – if so can I define what they connect with?
If the lion suggests strength and protectiveness, am I relating well to it?
School https://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/school/
Your attempts or desire to learn, or what you learned at school – not lessons but interrelationships, class structure, competitiveness, authority, mortification, group preferences, etc. The school can represent habits of behaviour or feeling reactions developed during those years – puberty occurs at this time, and confronts you with many new feelings, choices and drives, and that was a part of your ‘schooling’.
‘I am back at school on the first day of the new school year. At this point it can vary slightly, but I always feel out of place, usually because I am older than the other girls now or – most common – because my uniform is incorrect and it is time for assembly – I went to a very strict convent school. There is always some feeling of panic and quite often loneliness.’ P. H.
P. H. is still uncomfortable about who she is as a person. The influence of the school years still nags at her that she ought to be other than she is. Not having a nature that easily conformed, she was led to feel isolated and an alien.
There can also be ‘higher learning’ and this is not about maths and language, but about life skills, about love and how you connect with your own wholeness and potential, and the universe in which you are intricately embedded.
In a few dreams school refers to feelings of rejection or aloneness due to the stress faced by many children on leaving their mother for the first time to attend school.
Classroom: Study, relationship with authority, or whatever sense of yourself was engendered by school. Maybe you need to ask yourself what you actually learned at school.
Graduating: The tests you have met in life and relationships and the entrance into greater skill or maturing this has produced. It might suggest the sense you have achieved adulthood, or the skill leading to adult independence. It probably also associates with your feelings of personal of value.
Gymnasium: Taking risks in learning something new, or practising new skills, perhaps needing daring. It could also apply to physical health.
Library: Your knowledge and learning ability, or stored information such as memories. It can show you touching the vast reservoir of unconscious information and insights you hold
Places in school: Particular abilities you have, lessons you learned, or associations with that room.
School clothes: Social attitudes or moral rules learned at school. Perhaps pressure to conform.
School friend: Your attitudes developed in school, as you are ‘meeting’ them in the present.
Can sometimes refer to feelings of rejection or aloneness due to the stress faced by many children on leaving their mother for the first time to attend school. See the third example.
Example: ‘I am back at school on the first day of the new school year. At this point it can vary slightly, but I always feel out of place, usually because I am older than the other girls now or – most common – because my uniform is incorrect and it is time for assembly – I went to a very strict convent school. There is always some feeling of panic and quite often loneliness.’ P. H.
P. H. is still uncomfortable about who she is as a person. The influence of the school years still nags at her that she ought to be other than she is. Not having a nature that easily conformed, she was led to feel isolated and an alien.
Example: ‘In the bathroom area, a school class was being held, so I had to wait for my bath, steam would be bad for the books. I didn’t have any soap with me but I was going to wash my hair and could use the shampoo.’ Leonie K.
Leonie is getting rid of attitudes or a self image developed at school, shown as shampooing her hair. The new attitudes of letting off steam would not have been acceptable at school. Idioms: Of the old school; tell tales out of school; old school tie; well schooled. See: Schoolteacher and Headmaster under Roles.
Example: Working on a dream with P. The dream included reference to a school. Children were on their way to school and waving good-bye to their mothers. I was surprised at the intensity of emotion P. displayed when she looked at the saying good-bye, and then suddenly realised that this was the child’s first taste of leaving home, saying good-bye to mother.
School Uniform: This usually expresses your feelings about the time you were at school, or what you feel about being at school, or being the age to be in a school uniform.
So the uniform also holds in it the possibility of the dependence, the desire to ‘get out of a uniform existence’, the desire to excel or escape, you experience or may have experienced at school.
The uniform may simply also link with learning something – what did you actually learn at school – what life lessons, perhaps learned by the experience rather than the lessons?
Useful Questions and Hints:
What did you feel about the uniform either in the dream or in real life?
What is happening in the rest of the dream as a comment on the uniform?
What was your experience of school like and what did you get from it?
Shelf: Possibly your memories, of something that is a part of your everyday awareness; something that is accessible in terms of your using it or remembering what it represents. See: ledge.
Idioms: Of the old school; tell tales out of school; old school tie; well schooled. See: Schoolteacher and Headmaster.
Useful Questions and Hints:
Is it a school I went to?
If so what is my feelings about it?
What was happening at the school?
Were there special relationships at school?
Am I feeling the desire to learn, or am I involved in learning at the moment?
If this is about life skills, if so what have I learned?
Are there particular themes here – competitiveness, bullying, authority, punishment?
