Seeing “lions lions den tunnel”
in your dream

(Burrow; Hole; Underground passage) In a dream, a tunnel represents trickery and deception. If one sees himself digging a tunnel or a hole for someone else in a dream, it means tricking and deceiving him. If one enters the tunnel that he dug in the dream, it means that he will fall in his own trap. If one enters a tunnel or a burrow and cannot see light at the end of it, or if a traveller digs a hole, enters it and can longer see the skies or the stars above him in the dream, it means that thieves will rob him from his luggage, or that he will be high jacked, or stopped by a band of highway robbers.

If one sees himself taking an ablution or a bath inside the tunnel or in the hole in a dream, it means that he will arrest the robbers and recover his property. If one enters a tunnel and takes a bath inside it in a dream, it means that he will pay his debts, or repent for his sins, or if he is incarcerated, it means that he will be released. If one digs a tunnel and draws water from it or discovers a hole filled with still water inside it in a dream, it means that he earns his livelihood from trickery and deception. (Also see Piercing a hole)

(See Veins)

• Escaping from a lion without the latter running after the dreamer to catch him: Will evade an imminent danger.

• Eating lion meat or drinking lioness milk: Will get money from a ruler and triumph over one’s enemy.

• Eating lioness meat: Will wield tremendous power or become a great king.

• Cutting off a lion’s head: Will become a king or have a fantastic influence.

• Lion skin: The enemy’s money.

• Herding lions: Will befriend kings and terrible personalities.

• Mixing or having intercourse with a lion: Will be secure from the enemy’s evil and hostility will cease, to be replaced by a lasting friendship.

• Turning into a lion: Will become unjust inasmuch as the lion appeared ferocious.

• Riding on a lion’s back: Will ride on a high tide, either by travelling by sea in the inappropriate season when the sea is in fury or by succeeding or outsmarting the ruler. The dreamer might also be facing a situation wherein he stands helpless, hence the wishful dream.

• Riding on a subdued or perfectly obedient lion: Will have the upper hand in a feud with a tyrant.

• Riding on a lion but being afraid of it: Harm will befall the dreamer, or he will face some hard test.

• Fighting a lion: Will fight an enemy, a ruler, the authority, or whatever the lion stands for.

• Killing a lion: The end of all sorrows.

• Being overpowered by a lion: Will have a fever because, says Ibn Siren, the lion is known to be feverish.

• Seeing a lion entering a house where a person is ill: The patient will die.

• A lion intruding in one’s house: Hardship on the part of the chief. If the beast suddenly devours the dreamer, he will be the victim of an injustice, his money will be stolen, or he will be beaten or killed at the hands of the ruler, especially if he dreamed that his soul had left his body or that his head had been cut off.

• Receiving a lion and seeing it in one’s place without bothering with it: Will be scared to death by the sultan, but no real harm will occur.

• A lion entering the city: A plague, hardships, a tyrant, or an enemy.

• A lion entering the mosque and standing at the minbar or podium: A tyrant will emerge and will terrorize and harm people.

Sleeping beside a lion in a dream means safety from illness, or protection from one's enemy. If one sees a lion inside his own house in a dream, it means that he will gain the upper hand, or it could represent longevity and a high position in the world. A lion entering a town in a dream means a plague that will strike such a town. (Also see Lioness)

(A tyrant; An unjust ruler; Death; Healing from a sickness; Receiving an inheritance) A lioness in a dream represents ignorance, pride, affectation and perfidy. Seeing a lion without being seen, means escape from harm one may fear, attaining knowledge and growing in wisdom. A struggle with a lion that does not lead to one's death in a dream means observing a long lasting diet caused by an illness. If one fights with a lion and eats or snatches off a piece of his flesh, bones or hair in a dream, it means that he will attain success, leadership, wealth or conquer his enemy.

The lion is a ruler, a tyrant, or a powerful and very dangerous person, in view of the ferocity and devastating anger of that animal. It also symbolizes the warrior, the swindler, the thief, the treacherous worker, the policeman, the insatiable enemy, and perhaps hardships and death, because he who stares at it turns pale, loses his self-control, and is as good as dead, says Ibn
Siren. Furthermore, it represents the ruler who embezzles public funds and commits injustice and the lurking enemy.
The lioness symbolizes the daughter of a king. The baby lion  (lion’s whelp or cub) is a boy.
A man told Ibn Siren, “I dreamed that I was embracing and nursing a baby lion.”
When the great seer looked at him, saw his humble appearance and miserable garments, and understood that he could not be eligible for any
honour, he said, “What could you possibly have to do with the children of princes?!” and he added, “Is your wife, by chance, breast-feeding the son of a prince?”
“Yes,” was the reply.

Eating or acquiring the head of a she-lion means the acquiring of vast lands and estates.

It symbolises a powerful and strong enemy. Fighting with a lion means one will soon fight an enemy that is strong and powerful.

Riding a lion and directing it to go wherever one pleases means one will soon be endowed with power and one's enemy will soon be subdued.

Facing or encountering a lion without becoming embroiled in a fight means a person will soon be terrorized by an authority or a powerful man. But no harm will come to him.

It symbolises the estates and inheritance of some brave, dignified and powerful person.

The one who eats the meat will receive riches from some authority or a powerful person.

Piercing in a dream also means spying, pursuing someone's tracks, desecrating one's earnings by bringing unlawful money into them, or it could mean deterioration in the conduct of one's children. Digging an underground tunnel in a city in a dream means searching for someone. Digging an underground tunnel to reach the inside of a house in a dream means trying to court a woman, exerting an irresistible influence on her, then luring her to deceive her. (Also see Tunnel)

• Carrying a house: Will sustain a woman.

• Reclining on a house: A woman will cater to the dreamer’s livelihood.

• Entering a house and the doors getting locked behind: Will refrain from disobeying God in view of a verse in the Holy Quran: “And she, in whose house he was, asked of him an evil act. She bolted the doors and said: Come! He said: I seek refuge in Allah!…” 
(“Yusuf’ [Joseph], verse 23.)

• Getting out of a narrow house: Worries will be left behind.
A house without a roof wherefrom the dreamer could see the sun rising or the moon: A woman will get married therein.

• Seeing a tunnel under the house: A cunning man, especially if the tunnel was made of concrete or clay, in which case it would mean that the man’s wickedness is in the religious field.

(See Tunnel)

(See Tunnel)

(See Piercing a hole; Tunnel)