What the dreamer senses as sick or negative inside self; physical sickness or anxieties about health; feelings of sexual repulsion, or using sex to gain material aims; intuitions about a person being a ‘rat’ – doing things behind one’s back or underhandedly – or deserting a relationship when difficulties arise; seeing the underhanded side of oneself; time gnawing away at our life. Idioms: Rat on someone; rat race; smell a rat; feeling ratty.
