Background

What are gambling dreams about?

Gambling can be exciting. It can also be disappointing. Gambling is the act of taking money to wager it on an uncertain event in order to win more money than you wagered. The word gamble can be used to describe other situations or actions that are high risk and high reward. The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about gambling dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with gambling dreams. These are the words that make gambling dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of gambling dreams can be illuminating about show gambling affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example gambling dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how gambling in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that gambling is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that gambling is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, gambling dreams have more eating and drinking than 95.8% of dream symbols, more magical places than 95.1% of dream symbols, and more peers than 94.5% of dream symbols. On the other hand, gambling dreams have less sleep paralysis than 92.2% of dream symbols, less insects than 89.4% of dream symbols, and less fear than 85.1% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of gambling are friendly! These dreams have more friendly interactions than 80% of all of the other dream symbols. Friendly dreams can be great. They involve people helping other people, expressing love, and just being good to one another. Additionally, dreams of gambling are smelly! These dreams have more words related to smells than 90% of all other dream symbols. This is surprising because smelling in dreams is relatively uncommon. Furthermore, gambling dreams are associated with going to the bathroom! This may or may not be surprising. Going to the bathroom is a basic human need, so it makes sense that we dream about it sometimes. Still, this might hold some meaning in the dream. It all depends on the context. Also, gambling dreams are generally great! Dreams can be good for any number of reasons. You can gain insight from the dream. You can connect with friends and family. They can just be fun. Are dreams of gambling usually good for you? Why do you think gambling dreams are usually good? Finally, dreams of gambling can be frustrating! These dreams have more frustration than 90% of all other dream symbols. Frustration in a dream can, well, be frustrating. But there can be many reasons for frustration. One of the key aspects to understanding your dreams is just to pay attention to feelings. Be curious about frustration in dreams of gambling. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of gambling is different than dreams of gambling in general.

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How common are gambling dreams?

0.1% of dreams have the gambling symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 1,500 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is very rare.

Identification

How are gambling dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like gamble. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of verbs.

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What is most related to dreams of gambling?

Gambling dreams are notable because they have substantially more casinos, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, worm holes, Chewbacca, Venezuela, deluges, jury members, weasels, heat waves, animuses than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of gambling?

Gambling do not especially suppress any other dream symbols.

Deep dive into gambling dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in gambling dreams.

Who is in dreams of gambling?

Who is in dreams of gambling?

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.

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What are the emotions in dreams of gambling?

What are the emotions in dreams of gambling?

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.

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Where do dreams of gambling take place?

Where do dreams of gambling take place?

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

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What happens in dreams of gambling?

What happens in dreams of gambling?

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

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How do dreams of gambling related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of gambling related to the type of dream it is?

Dreams of gambling 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 much less related to sleep paralysis.

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How do dreams of gambling related the senses?

How do dreams of gambling related the senses?

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.

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How can you make sense of gambling in dreams?

Gambling dreams are very rare. Among other things gambling dreams are friendly, focused on smells, associated with going to the bathroom, great dreams, and frustrating. Do you think this is true for your dream of gambling? How might your dream of gambling be different?

All dreams have meaning

All dreams have meaning

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.

Look for the differences

Look for the differences

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.

Return to the feelings

Return to the feelings

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.

An interpretation of gambling dreams

An interpretation of gambling dreams

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

Examples of dreams of gambling

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of gambling dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for gambling dreams. Read at your own risk.

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