Gambling dreams are more related to animals, more related to unnamed people, and more related to strangers than dreams in general. They are less related to insects and less related to fantastic beings.

Dreams of gambling are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to grief and sorrow than dreams in general. They are less related to fear.

Gambling dreams are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human-made places than dreams in general.

Dreams of gambling are much more related to friendly acts, more related to sex, and more related to disasters than dreams in general.

Gambling dreams are more related to recurring dreams, more related to bad dreams, and more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.

Gambling dreams are much more related to smelling than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to taste, and less related to vision.

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 gambling 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 gambling in dreams. See how you feel about gambling 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. When you gamble you take a risk, so gambling in a dream can symbolize anything risky or associated with chance. For example, starting a new business or relationship is a gamble. You are willing to accept the risk because of the possibility of reward. Gambling has other associations related to cheating, lying, and anything else that carries a risk of getting caught. Gambling can be associated with a hunch, especially when something isn’t right about someone or something. It can mean you’re in danger of being fooled, or fooling yourself, or you’re the target of a shakedown or scam. The feelings are similar, a hunch you can’t put your finger on, you just know something isn’t right. Gambling is associated with intuition, strategy, deception, and playing the odds. A gambler in a dream can symbolize someone who thinks he can get away with something. The idea can be extended to making strategy and analyzing risk. Gamblers are commonly perceived as people who are bad with money and aren’t willing to work at a regular job. Gamblers create perceptions of themselves that may have nothing to do with reality, so dreaming about a gambler or gambling can relate to the difference between perception and reality. The image of a gambler and that lifestyle can be much different from the reality. Gamblers are associated with strong nerves and a poker face. These skills are comparable to situations in life such as making business deals or trading in financial markets. Good gamblers who play against other gamblers are said to “read the player, not the cards.” This idea can be used to symbolize ability to read people and their motives. The idea extends to knowing the strength of a position you are in. For example, you know when is the right time to ask for a raise at work or make your move in a relationship. Gambling is associated with luck, and in dreamland luck isn’t found only in a casino. For example, you are “lucky” if you have the perfect spouse and beautiful, well-behaved kids. You are “unlucky” if you get laid off at work or catch a terrible illness. See: Winning the lottery The symbolism of gambling takes on new dimensions for people who gamble and go to casinos. Hours glued to a slot machine or spent at a gaming table can create all sorts of imagery for dreams to process. But also consider what’s happening in your mind during those hours. For example, you might notice patterns that can aid your play, or devise a betting strategy, but the knowledge is subconscious. Your dreams can help bring those thoughts and observations forward. Wins and losses associated with gambling, and how they can affect your life is also fodder for dreams. When these associations are brought into play, dreams have many connections that can be made between gambling and other areas of life, especially in relation to the value of money and how it is prioritized. See: Money For example, a woman who habitually loses money at casinos dreams about attending a funeral in a potter’s field in the back of her favorite casino. Instead of flowers, the mourners toss poker chips onto the casket, and the service is overseen by a pit boss. The woman becomes very curious about who is in the closed casket—she assumes it must be someone important. The pit boss opens the casket for her, and she’s mortified to see her lifeless body inside. The message in the dream is clear enough: she’s throwing away her money in casinos, and it’s killing her inside because she can’t stop. And if she doesn’t stop, she fears she’ll go to her grave penniless, as symbolized by the potter’s field. A final consideration is that gambling is associated with odds, statistics, numbers and specialized skill. In this sense, dreaming about gambling or being a gambler can symbolize ability to analyze numbers and make quick decisions. See also: Casinos, Winning the lottery, Money, Numbers, Subconscious