What does it mean to dream about tiger?
A tiger tends to mean a powerful feeling you cannot fully control, beautiful and dangerous at once, often desire or anger.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would see in the tiger a fierce drive or passion felt as barely caged. Its beauty and threat together suggest a wish the dreamer both wants and fears.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would read the tiger as the raw, untamed instinctual force, often the wild feminine. Facing it without fleeing can mean integrating a power long held back.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
The threat-simulation idea fits when the tiger stalks. Continuity ties it to waking situations charged with risk or strong appetite.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Mythological
In Asian traditions the tiger guards and devours in equal measure, a protector against evil in Chinese lore and the mount of fierce goddesses in Hindu myth.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer).