In a dream, whether it be a human or an animal, creeping means a theft, spying or eavesdropping.
Dream dictionary: Creeping dream meanings
…Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed friendship will do you great harm. Dreaming you are cursing yourself, means evil fortune. Dreaming you are cursed by others, signifies relief through affection and prosperity. The interpretation of this dream here given is not satisfactory. See Profanity….
…every hand. Illuminated faces, indicate unsettled business, both private and official. To see the heavens illuminated, with the moon in all her weirdness, unnatural stars and a red sun, or a golden one, you may look for distress in its worst form. Death, family troubles, and national upheavals will occur. To see children in the lighted heavens, warns you to control your feelings, as irrevocable wrong may be done in a frenzy of feeling arising over seeming neglect by your dear ones. To see illuminated human figures or animals in the heavens, denotes failure and trouble | dark clouds overshadow fortune. To see them fall to the earth and men shoot them with guns, many troubles and obstacles will go to nought before your energy and determination to rise. To see illuminated snakes, or any other creeping thing, enemies will surround you, and use hellish means to overthrow you….
…Distraction in a dream and especially during prayers means envy and desire to rip others of their property and particularly close friends or relatives. If one is distracted during his prayers by a creeping snake or a lion in a dream, it means that he must be on his guard and cautious with his wife or child. Distraction during prayers represents one’s passions, desires, or it could mean heedlessness, soliciting temporary gains and declining from the eternal benefits of the hereafter. (Also see Delirium)…
…Symbolize the most primitive, voracious and creeping that can exist among us, our low instincts. The reptile´s cold blood symbolizes the lack of warm and good feelings. If we are devoured by a reptile, then it reveals that the instinctive life is taking over our will turning us into victims of the low instincts. If we fight and overcome the reptile it will reveal the fight that we are holding to dominate our low instincts. (Different from snakes and turtles)…
Dreaming that you feel a numbness creeping over you, in your dreams, is a sign of illness, and disquieting conditions