Because of its primitive origins, many psychologists view this as an emblem of the Collective Unconscious or wild nature within.
In Egypt and Greece, an omen of luck.
African: Transformation and the ability to adapt to your surroundings. Here the lizard is regarded as a shape-shifter.
Lizards are very sensitive to land vibrations, and have very good hearing and keen eyesight, making them symbolic of awareness, especially psychically.
Impartiality and the ability to break away from various situations. When a predator pounces on a lizard’s tail, it is surprised to discover that the tail breaks off, leaving the lizard free and alive to grow a new one! [1]
The view of life as a dream is one that the lizard cames to the individual who needs to expand his or her thinking regarding the greater meaning of life. As the lizard is sometimes difficult to see, it reflects unseen dimensions of the world.
A chameleon, for instance, can represent maintaining a level of invisibility or may commcnt on being in camouflage. Its appearance can also be a response to not noticing the obvious. As a prehistonc reptile, a lizard may come to mention the need to explore your prerecorded history in order to greater understand your present attitudes and beliefs. [2]
Quick response.
Acting or reacting automatically or without conscious thought (such as a reflexive mental or emotional reaction).
Instinct or a basic dynamic (such as human bonding, fear, or aggression).
Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.
Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.
If you kill a lizard, you will regain your lost reputation or fortune; but if it should escape, you will meet vexations and crosses in love and business.
For a woman to dream that a lizard crawls up her skirt, or scratches her, she will have much misfortune and sorrow. Her husband will be a victim to invalidism and she will be left a widow, and little sustenance will be eked out by her own labors. [4]
In Native American mythology, the lizard is the dreamer.
Dreaming of a lizard, therefore, is a sign that this dream is important and reveals a lot about where you’re coming from, where you’re going, and how best to get there. In order to get this information, look to the other symbols in the dream. [6]
A dream lizard might also be a “lounge lizard.” [8]
(2) Because it is cold-blooded and primitive, the lizard may represent some part of - or some message from - the collective unconscious (for collective unconscious). [9]
The reptilian brain is the part of the human brain that controls our fundamental impulses.
The medicine associated with the lizard in the dream world is adaptability and survival. [10]
A dead lizard signifies a successful battle to protect your reputation.
Shoes, bags, or other items made of lizard skin predict an increase in income. [11]
To kill a lizard is a lucky portent, both an love and in business. [12]
A lizard may manifest in a dream as a creature with a human face and a nasty disposition that lives in your home [15]
2. Basic, primal instincts.
3. Vision, creativity and creative energy.
4. Genitalia. [17]
Folklore: Betrayal. [21]
2. Unclean spirit; Lev. 11:30 [24]
A lizard in a dream also represents a person who swindles people’s money. It also means a sickness, or it could represent a wicked, damned and abhorred person, or a lonesome person. Perhaps seeing a lizard in a dream may mean suspicious or tainted money, someone of an unknown lineage, a reincarnated or transformed person in the form of a lizard. Noting here that transformation of the human being into another creature in reality represents a divine punishment, though it may not last for more than three days. God knows best.
(See also: Wall gecko, Monitor, Transformation) [28]
bag made of, having a: wil have money from an unimportant misdemeanor.
belt: marriage wil last until death or the annoyance is dead.
shoes: wil be very healthy, but watch your step.
friends having articles made of: treachery through those in whom you trusted.
in a cage: secret hostilities cause you to explore injury.
killing a: wil regain lost fortune and a reputation through unpleasant encounters. [29]