Coming face to face with a monster or scary creature (or even a large, imposing animal of some kind) in your dreams can be terrifying and is said to represent a number of possible things in your real life. They can represent the fact that we are afraid about facing up to something or they can represent that something in our lives is getting out of hand and uncontrollable. For example, in the instance of the former, perhaps we are worried about health issues but are afraid to see a doctor about them for fear about what we may be told. Or maybe we simply have a hell of a lot of work to do, but we worry about getting stuck in to it because of the amount of time it might take and what else we might neglect as a result. In the instance of the latter, perhaps the amount of work we are taking on is getting too much for us, or an ongoing behavioural problem in our children is starting to cause more problems than we'd like - in any such instance, the dream is said to be taken as a sign that something needs to be done to address these issues in order to restore and maintain some kind of order.
