Water buffalo
A heavy, patient working animal of paddy and river — slow strength yoked to long, deliberate labour.
A water buffalo in a dream is the dream's image of slow strength yoked to long, deliberate labour. The water buffalo is not fast and is not decorative; it pulls the plough through wet earth for hours and is willing to do so again tomorrow. The dream brings the water buffalo when something in your life — a job, a marriage, a service to a community — is being done by an animal-level patience that does not need praise. A water buffalo working with its handler is the dream affirming the partnership. A water buffalo standing still in deep water, refusing to move, is the dream noting that even the most patient worker has a point at which the weight is being asked to do more than patience will bear.