Polar bear
A great white bear of the ice — patient predator in a country that does not forgive.
A polar bear in a dream is the dream's image of a patient predator at home in a country that does not forgive. The polar bear waits over a hole in the ice for hours; the cold the bear lives in would kill almost anything else. The dream brings the bear when something in your life — a long discipline, a long-watching competitor, a hard-country friend — is showing the kind of patience that only the harshest environment teaches. A polar bear seen at distance against snow is the dream affirming the steady patience and the cost it has been paid for. A polar bear hungry and on the move, the ice thinning under it, is the dream noting that even the harshest discipline depends on a world that may now be going away.