In East Asian folklore a tapir-like creature, the baku, eats bad dreams. Tradition reads the tapir as protection in sleep, and as an ancient, gentle presence of the forest.
When this appeared in your dream, what were you feeling?
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.