Rats represent work or work, custodians, temples, efforts, brokers, spies, cowards, thieves, etc. In the West, it symbolizes repressed and evasive emotions or instincts in one’s unconsciousness, or undeveloped talent or character. A dream of a mouse gnawing at cloth means that money will come in return for efforts to make a living and enjoy peace in the body and mind. It may be a dream that implies self-development.