Meerkat lookout

A meerkat lookout in a dream is the dream's image of a small sentry holding an upright watch so the rest of the group can keep eating. The meerkat on watch does not eat; the role is the food the group does not have to interrupt. The dream brings the lookout when something in your life — your own vigilance, a friend who scans for trouble, a parent who never quite sits down — is currently doing the work of holding the perimeter so that everyone else can carry on with the meal. A lookout in steady position is the dream affirming the kept watch. A lookout who has dropped to all fours to feed, with no one taking the upright post, is the dream noting that the watching role has gone unfilled, and the group is now eating with nothing between it and what might be approaching.