I'm not good at dream interpretation but I'd like to see what some people think about the nightmares that plagued me when I was younger. It was from roughly as early as I can remember till 11 years old.

When I mean plagued, I really do mean plagued. I had them each night, a lot of times and combined with a lot of false awakenings. Nast stuff that combined with my rotten schoolife and parents didn't see to a happy childhood.

In all the dreams there was the tiger from the jungle book cartoon (looked more like a real tiger) and he was well hunting me all the time. In every dream I had he came, I would be running through forests, cities, festivals, it didn't matter he would be there. In the end he usually attacked me and I woke up. Sometimes it didn't and it would just show itself in the dream to make me constantly aware he could come after me.

What I also had were a lot of "commercial dreams" I tend to call them. They wouldn't be longer than a few seconds and featured my cat (whom I loved in real life) going berserk each time I came across her and trying to kill me in a similar way the tiger did.

Both dreams were combined with a lot of false awakenings. I'd wake up and be relieved and then find the tiger or cat opposite me in the bedroom and it would continue then. (you can imagine what an impace this all had)

They stopped when I became 11, not just stopped but rather I reached an agreement with the tiger in my dreams. He'd still come to hunt me but at the time he pinned me down I told him I'd do anything he'd want me to do and then he'd leave me alone and the dream would change in me having to accomplish some silly mission (a movie or so where we'd have to thwart the good guys).

The nightmares stopped with that and only ocasionally now the tiger appears but I've grown up and don't fear it anymore. Looking back it seems silly it plagued me that much but I can still remember how it felt. The nightmares I now ocasionally have just feature bad real life people from my childhood turning against me.

What I was wonder is whether the dream had any significant meaning (other than to scare the living daylights out of me, one time during a holiday the dream had been so vivid that I had felt the tiger moving next to the tent when I woke up, I was terrified the entire other day)
and whether my succeeded attempt in reaching an agreement with the tiger has anything to do with lucidity.

thanks!