Monitor lizard
A large patrolling lizard — slow, deliberate authority moving through the ground it claims.
A monitor lizard in a dream is the dream's image of slow, deliberate authority moving through the ground it claims. The monitor walks rather than runs; the creature that sees it usually has time to leave. The dream brings the monitor when something in your life — an inspecting figure, a slow-moving institution, an internal critic — is patrolling its area without haste and is being noticed by everything in its path. A monitor lizard at its own steady pace is the dream affirming the territorial walk. A monitor lizard cornered, with the speed becoming visible, is the dream noting that the slow patrol can move quickly when pushed, and what looked deliberate was also fully capable of striking.