Bear symbolizes the instinctive, uncontrolled and cruel impulses of our passions. It also symbolizes our bold, powerful and cruel enemies. If bears will reach us they will irretrievably destroy us, but we almost always manage to escape, thanks to their clumsiness. If we dream of a female and maternal bear it becomes a personification of our childish fixation on the maternal image and reveals the desire to be petted, contemplated and pampered.