What does it mean to dream about boar?
A boar often stands for raw, charging force, a stubborn courage, or an aggression that turns dangerous when cornered.
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 might read the boar, tusked and charging, as an image of aggressive or sexual drive in its rawest form. Its refusal to back down could picture an impulse the dreamer finds hard to master. He would ask what such force calls up for you.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
For Jung the boar can image fierce, untamed instinct, a power that must be reckoned with rather than denied. Hunting or fleeing it may mirror how you face your own anger and drive.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
In threat-simulation terms a charging boar can give the sleeping mind a sharp danger to rehearse, especially during stress. Many dreamers wake having practised the instinct to fight, climb clear, or run from a sudden attack.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Mythological
The boar runs fierce through Greek and Celtic myth, from the Calydonian and Erymanthian hunts told by Bulfinch to the great boars of Irish legend that bring death to heroes. Across these tales it stands for deadly courage and the perils of the hunt.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Frazer).