Desert dreams are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to fantastic beings than dreams in general. They are less related to peers, less related to family, and less related to romantic partners.

Dreams of deserts are less related to happiness, less related to grief and sorrow, and less related to embarrassment.

Desert dreams are more related to human-made places, more related to transportation, and much more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to schools.

Dreams of deserts are more related to disasters and more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general. They are less related to sex.

Desert dreams are more related to recurring dreams, more related to vivid dreams, and more related to sad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to bad dreams.

Dreams of deserts are more related to taste and more related to vision than dreams in general.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience deserts in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about deserts in dreams. See how you feel about deserts now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Dreaming about a desert can indicate a barren, dry, or empty time of life. The imagery captures how you feel or what you perceive. Your life, job, or relationships lack meaning or zest. For example, a woman dreams about walking endlessly in a barren wasteland. She’s alone, and the only landmarks appear far away. For protection from the sun she puts on her husband’s favorite baseball cap, but for some reason it lacks a visor and ends up looking like a dunce cap on her head. Walking alone in the desert sums up how she feels in her loveless marriage. Her husband is distant emotionally, as symbolized by the landmarks distant on the horizon. Putting on her husband’s baseball cap is a way of symbolizing thinking about her marriage to him. A hat or cap is worn on the head, and thoughts are associated with the head. The visor, which is supposed to protect her from the sun, is missing, because what she’s really trying to protect herself from is thinking too deeply about what’s missing from her marriage. It only makes her miserable. And the dunce cap refers to her feeling that she must be stupid to continue trudging forward in a marriage that’s making her miserable. Being lost or alone in a desert can have similar symbolism to being lost in a forest or wilderness. See: Forests, Wilderness Water is closely associated with emotion, so a dry dream environment can be a metaphor for lack of feelings and emotions. See: Water Barren is a word used to describe being childless or unable to conceive. An endless desert can symbolize the sense that a bad situation has no end. A desert is a great setting to connect with “feeling the heat.” A situation has become tense or risky, or you can no longer stand it, such as in the example above where a desert symbolizes a loveless marriage. See: Heat For people who have spent time in deserts, dreaming about them can be associated with that experience. For example, soldiers who served in Iraq might dream about the desert as a reference to that war. See also: Emptiness, Forests, Heat, Lost, Sunny, War, Wilderness