What does it mean to dream about rabbit?
A rabbit usually carries fertility, luck, and gentleness, but its quickness and timidity can also picture anxiety or running from something.
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
Given the rabbit's fertility, Freud would lean toward themes of sexuality and reproduction, with the animal's nervous speed hinting at a wish pursued or fled.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung would see the trickster and the fertile, instinctual life. The rabbit can mark new growth stirring, or a part of the self that bolts when approached.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties the rabbit to waking thoughts of fertility, vulnerability, or haste. Being unable to catch it can picture an elusive goal.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
From the moon-hare of many cultures to the Celtic link with the otherworld and the Easter emblem of rebirth, the rabbit is an old sign of fertility and renewal.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Frazer; Bulfinch).