An attack is read as feeling under pressure or threatened in waking life, often by something you have not named. Tradition also sees the attacker as an inner force you have been pushing away. Being attacked by a stranger is read as general anxiety; by someone you know as tension or a conflict with them. Fighting back or escaping is taken as reclaiming strength and boundaries, while freezing is read as feeling overwhelmed; an animal attacker is read as instinct or anger turned against you. These are among the most common frightening dreams and are not a forecast. It can help to ask what is pressing on you right now.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.