This sounds similar to a few dreams I've had, mostly when I was young (not sure - maybe anywhere from 9 through early teens?)
I had a bunch of dreams where I'd be in the yard and see a snake, often it was deformed. I was fascinated and a little scared, then I'd notice another and another, and pretty soon there were hundreds of them and they were getting bigger. Not like they were growing, just the new ones I noticed were bigger than the original ones. I'd start to get scared and try to get away (having to be careful to step where there are no snakes) or find a safe place. Usually I'd end up waking up when it turned into a nightmare. The wickedest one ended with me making it across the street where I looked down over the guardrail and rather than the gentle slope down into the woods that should have been there I was looking down maybe 100 feet into a concrete spillway with shallow water running through it and a gigantic snake laying in it - so vast I couldn't see either end of it, just a length of massive snake body stretching as far as I could see in either direction.
I've also had similar dreams with other kinds of animals - often starting with innocuous ones like a rabbit, then several more, then a groundhog or two, then maybe cats and dogs, then goats or sheep, then wolves, then bears, and sometimes culminating in gigantic dinosaurs. These often took place in my yard or even in my house, with me looking out a window first in wonder at the animals, and then getting scared. And often my dog was outside and I had to go out and try to rescue him. Another common feature of these dreams was my mom angrily chopping vegetables and seeming unable to understand the danger or even malicious about it, and often she had let the dog out in the first place and couldn't understand why I was concerned for it. When I asked her to look out the window she would either ignore me and keep chopping like a madwoman or just sort of scoff at me.
In one after seeing hundreds of animals culminating in giant dinosaurs (by which point all the other animals were gone) I went out to rescue the dog and there were no dinosaurs there, but there was some weird creature like an Alien warrior in metallic hues crouching at the pool drinking from it, and it moved fast as lightning and tried to cut us off (I found the dog) when we moved back toward the safety of the house.
So it seems clear that in my dreams the animals represented fears of the outside world and the house represented domestic safety/security. I've read that these frightening wild animals can represent sexual fears (Freudian interpretation) but I think they might be more general than that as well. Multiplying or growing bigger is also an important dream theme, but I don't remember what it means, other than maybe fears feeding on themselves and generating more fears.
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