Wow... some of these are really incredible!
I noticed that most of you seem to dream about mammals, particularly kind of... well, the kind of animals I imagine ancient man also dreamed about: lions, wolves, bears, dogs, panthers, cattle/bulls... Snakes and insects seem a bit less common.
While reading I recalled some of my own animal attack dreams... I haven't kept a dream journal though so some of them are pretty vague.
Most of my animal-related nightmares involve spiders. I'm pretty arachnophobic in real life so it's not surprising that it follows me in dreams. I'm not even sure that confronting such things in a lucid dream would help because I'm so terrified of them in real life.
The only dream I've ever died in involved a giant spider. It was in the basement of my house and my mom was upstairs, playing a piano. It was probably about 6 feet tall and in a web that spanned the room. It talked, and taunted me, daring me to try to run away. I was frozen in fear, but when I did try to run, it easily caught me on the stairs and killed me. As my senses faded I felt it move past me to kill my mom. Then I woke up.
That one happened when I was maybe 11 or 12, but I still get recurring spider dreams. Usually they are normal sized (still large for spiders though) and not actively attacking me but rather sitting in doorways and things. Like I'll be in a room in a house and notice a spider. Usually these spiders are also very brightly or unusually coloured too, like being all white with black spots for example, or coloured like a toxic frog. So I feel immediately like these are deadly spiders, and as soon as I see one, I look around the room and realize that they are everywhere, and often clustered around doorways and windows, preventing my escape. Those dreams terrify me... 
About a month ago I had a dream about a demon dog. In the dream I had a false awakening where some friends of the family came into my house in the middle of the night, worried because they had a sick dog and needed someone to take care of it for a few hours while they found a vet. So they left it lying under a table in my bedroom. I think I must have fallen asleep and had another awakening later, and I went to check on the dog. But as I approached the table, I realized with dawning horror that it was upside down and stuck to/hanging from the underside of the table, like some sort of alien. I woke up right after that, screaming.
I also recently had a dream involving a pack of t-rexes chasing after me, but for whatever reason this was less of a disturbing dream and more of an adventure, Indiana Jones style. I eventually escaped by jumping like 20 stories off a rusted bridge into choppy ocean water, and when I got to shore I realized I'd jumped into another dimension, so I was fine.
Looking forward to reading/sharing more!
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