What are job dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like job.
Jobs in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 2.7% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 35 dreams.
What are the major highlights of job dreams?
Jobs is a normal dream symbol. Having jobs in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
Job dreams are friendly
Dreams of jobs have greater increase of friendly interactions within the dream than most other dream symbols. While not all dreams of jobs will be friendly and they can also contain aggressive interactions, dreams of jobs are more likely to have friendly interactions than most other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include spying, baldness, entrances, breakfast, uranus, thinking, cults, Congo, tools, and locks.
Job dreams might be sexual
Dreams of jobs are more related to sex than 90% of all of the other dream symbols. If jobs is in a dream, this dream is far more likely to contain sexual symbols. Other symbols that are like this include testicles, addicts, imposters, guest rooms, love, genitals, break ups, weasels, facebook, and flirting.
What symbols more present in dreams of jobs?
Job dreams are notable because they have substantially more money, calluses, bosses, employees, verbs, getting a job, wallets, general movement, unemployment, coworkers, getting fired, colleges, Laos, different roles, grocery stores, janitors, apartments, service workers, spying, Kenya, movement, emails, restaurants and bars, epidemics, planning, accountants, motorcycles, lunch, accepting, mafia, going, Kuwait, crime, arresting, nurses, lawyers, characters, Serbia, sports, directors, hatred, universities, talismans, communicating, jails, cannons, clean, actors, foreignness, friendly interactions, harpoons, numbers, calendars, desks, giving, bankers, pilots, food in general, guilty, and servants than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of jobs?
Job dreams are notable because they have substantially less seeing a dead grandmother, sleep paralysis, paralysis, seeing a dead pet, candles, human places, places, things, recurring dreams, panthers, lions, goats, octopus, spiders, snakes, nightmares, recurring nightmares, hamsters, pets, drowning, fantastic beings, foxes, hawks, fish, lucid dreams, animals, ambushing, cats, islands, yellow eyes, owls, games, devils, carrots, jobs, whales, flying, vomiting, dungeons, chasing, attics, childhood homes, maggots, and birds than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define jobs?
The symbol of jobs in dreams is highly related to work.
How does the dream symbol of jobs affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in jobs dreams?
Overall, dreams with jobs are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jobs are more related to different roles, more related to close people, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to animals, less related to insects, and less related to fantastic beings.
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What are the emotions in jobs dreams?
Overall, dreams with jobs are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jobs are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.
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Who is in jobs dreams?
Overall, dreams with jobs are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jobs are more related to home, much more related to work, and much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.
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What happens in jobs dreams?
Overall, dreams with jobs are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jobs are more related to friendly interactions and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do jobs in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with jobs are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of jobs are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to sleep paralysis.
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How can you make sense of jobs in dreams?
Job dreams are relatively common. Among other things job dreams are normally interconnect, friendly, and sexual.
Do you think this is true for your dream of jobs? How might your dream of jobs be different?
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
The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience jobs in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.
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 jobs in dreams. See how you feel about jobs now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of jobs?
Considering the importance of work and career for so many people, it’s not surprising that dreaming about your job is common. These dreams usually reflect recent events and situations related to it. However, expand the idea of what constitutes a job, and consider how the word is used to mean something other than formal employment, and dreams can branch out from there to touch on a variety of subjects.
For example, being a parent is a job. Maintaining social relationships requires work, and for some people “networking” is an integral part of their job. A hobby that you’re trying to turn into a paid gig is treated like a job. The possibilities go on and on.
A man dreams that he has two jobs, both in restaurants, and decides to call off one of them. It symbolizes his feeling of being overextended. He has a career and home to take care of, and he’s too busy with work to put as much effort into his home. It has to wait, symbolized as calling off of work.
Now let’s return to “job” meaning what you do for a living. Your dreams can branch out to tell a story about advancement, authority, recognition, prestige, pressure, time management, skill, competence, education, training, compensation, choice.
Dreams can talk about your job—or a job—without referring to it directly. For example, shopping at a mall can symbolize casting a wide net for a job, because a mall is place with many stores (employers) to choose from, and making a purchase is an investment you make (giving your time and energy) in return for what you get in return (salary, benefits, authority, challenge, prestige). Fishing can symbolize looking for a job. See: Malls
Dreams involving driving and your car can be closely connected with your job. A car takes you places in life, and so can your job. See: Cars
For more examples of other not-so-obvious dream themes that can connect with your job, see: Horse, Journey, Lost, Marriage, Robot, Servant.
The dreaming mind is a very clever storyteller, oblique when it needs to be or when that’s the best way to tell the story. However, it can be direct. If a dream takes place at your place of work or involves co-workers and other people related to your work or occupation, it’s a clue that the subject somehow relates to your job. For an example, see: Walmart.
Remember, though, that dreams can address anything related to your job, and they don’t necessarily have to use your workplace as a setting. Instead, your workplace, even if it’s at home or on the road, is portrayed through a different setting based on your associations and feelings. See: Dungeons
In another example, a woman dreams about an apocalyptic battle symbolizing her job conditions working in the front office of a school. She loves the work, but it can be a battle to get everything done. See: Fighting
Dreams about your job are not necessarily related directly to events at work, but instead address something related. For example, a female dreams that she is at work, at her desk, and a co-worker comes up and touches her suggestively, distracting her. The dream is about the dreamer’s distraction at work. She was recently on her honeymoon and her mind is not on her work. See: Coworkers
A man dreams that he’s at a party with his co-workers and he’s naked. No one seems to notice, though. Being naked symbolizes his fear that he’ll be exposed for not knowing how to do his job—he’s still new. And his nakedness going unnoticed symbolizes that no one knows he doesn’t really know what he’s doing at work.
Use the entries listed below to further explore this subject. This book has entries for a variety of occupations (nurse, pilot, doctor, artist, police officer, soldier) and titles (president, captain, general) and work settings (grocery store, restaurant, school) that are addressed as symbolism, generally not from the point of view of someone who works in those occupations, but it still could be helpful to read them if your job or dream involves them. They are too numerous to list.
See also: Armies, Bosses, Cars, Computers, Coworkers, Dismissals, Dungeons, Emails, Employees, Famousness, Fighting, Guns, Prostitutes, Lost, Being naked, Police, Principals, Robots, Servants, Tackling, Teacher, Unemployment, Vacations, Walmart
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.
Examples of dreams of jobs
Read some real dream reports of job dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.
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So, I just had this dream. I have no clue what the hell it means. If I need to give backstory I will.
This is the dream. My girlfriend and I are mercenaries for the US government. We are world renowned and all of US loves us. They call us Bonnie and Clyde. It’s great. One day she tragically dies on a job. No one knows but my boss and me. So we are famous and a TV show calls him to join. He asks me to send a picture of me smiling so he knows I’m getting paid well (as a joke of course). So instead I send a picture of my girl and I. Then the crowd of the audience goes silent. My boss (on the show) finally tells the world about her. Everyone is depressed. Then I send another picture. It’s a picture of the scars on my wrist that I made because of her passing. The caption of the pic says “What is valor, if there’s no one to share it with”. Time goes by and my boss calls me for one last job. I take it. I’m to impersonate a bad guy to get info at a bad guy headquarters. I go and the bad guys pat me down. As I’m walking to his door I see these pyramids next to me. Two to be exact. Really big. I look up at them and the sun shines from behind them. I get a headache and fall to the floor. My vision changes from red to grey, then red to grey again and again. I can hear my heartbeat and feel it shaking the earth. Then my heartbeat and vision stop being weird lol. A shadow rises from behind the pyramids and it’s a Pegasus. It swoops down in front of my vision and shortly disappears out of my sight completely. A skeletal creature was riding it. Then I wake up in my room but everything is grey. I realize it’s a dream so I start telling myself to wake up. Over and over again. It doesn’t work. So I hold my breath for 30 seconds. Then I actually wake up, gasping for air. That’s my dream.
So, I just had this dream. I have no clue what the hell it means. If I need to give backstory I will.
This is the dream. My girlfriend and I are mercenaries...
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horrible dream.
i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.
i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the dream, because it was five years ago.
i went through school, i graduated. with a scholarship. i deferred it and moved out two weeks later with three of my friends, one of which i do not expect to have in my future. all in june 2020
i had a boyfriend, we got together january 2020. i’ve known him for a while, we’re in talking stage right now.
i went to college in 2021 for nursing. i dropped out because i hated it, and held a job at a strip club as a waitress.
i did so much. i voted in the 2023 election. one of my friends died in a car accident. i had a dog, named riley. and my roommate had a ferret named pearl.
it ended in august 2024, was a wednesday but the date isn’t in my head. i came home and found 4 year long boyfriend banging my roommate. i walked in and saw them, it was a fight and they insisted it was “friendly” and “okay because it wasn’t romantic”. i remember every single second of that conversation. i was screaming at the top of my lungs and so were they. i eventually got mad enough to leave, i slammed the door behind me and the hallway started looking off. i figured it was the tears welling my eyes making my vision all wonky so i shut my eyes really tight. i opened them, and there i was in the bedroom of the house i moved out of 5 years earlier.
i lived 5 years into the future in an hour. i woke up and i don’t know who i am anymore. i don’t have the same experiences that built me. i don’t have any motivation. i just DID everything i dot want to do it again.
i don’t know if this is exactly the place to write this. but i’m so disheartened and grieving and i’m terrified.
i went to sleep at 11:30ish. i woke up, 12:45, after having lived five whole fucking years of my life.
i don’t even remember what i did at the start of the...
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Weird dream sign from God?
My husband and I (both 28) have been married for 10 months. We have decided to try for a baby and its been 3 months so far. I was on the pill for 14 years and heard women on the pill that long are usually fertile right away. I'm feeling discouraged because everyone in both of our families got pregnant right away and it seems like it's taking so long for us. We got a house, got married, have good jobs, got all the toys we wanted, got our traveling out of the way and now it still hasn't happened. My cousins and sisters are unstable and don't have serious relationships but yet they all have kids. I pray to God a lot but don't go to church so I'm not super religious but I do believe in a higher power. I pray and ask for God to do whatever is meant to be. If a baby is supposed to be for us please let it happen soon. But if it's not supposed to happen then I don't want to go through a miscarriage or something. Last night I only slept 3 hours and woke up off and on and Everytime I fell back asleep I continued the same shitty dream. I dreamt my husband cheated on me with his ex and left me for her. In my dream I was saying how it was a sign from God thats why we never had a baby that he knew this would happen and didn't want a baby to be in that mess. I'm trying to not cry about it right now but I am. Is this a sign from God it's not meant to be? But I'm trying to be positive. Should I be happy that it's not true and that's not the situation? I suffer from anxiety and depression and I've been doing so good until lately. Now today its very bad.
A little back story.. when we first got together about 6 years ago he did cheat on me and I punched his face and left his ass immediately. He begged and did everything I wanted to get me back. I dated people and kissed guys all in front of him. He paid for expensive stuff for me cuz honestly I was just trying to use him.(yes I know very toxic) About 6 months of me using him and him sticking around I gave him another shot and here we are.many years later. Happy as can be with 2 fur babies, some chickens, a boat, a big house, nice cars and I'm so spoiled everyday. I love him so much and I know he loves me but that dream really fucked me up. Idk what I'm looking for. I wish I could just talk to God but I guess reddit is all I have right now. P.s. none of our families or friends know we're trying for a kid so I don't wanna vent to them at all. We both come from big families (I'm the oldest of 7 he's the youngest of 6) so it hurts Everytime someone asks when is the baby. And no we're not Mormon or rich at all... just come from ghetto backgrounds. One of the few that broke the cycle, or is at least trying to. I wrote this hours ago and struggled to post it so Thanks to anyone that reads this and has some, hopefully, positive vibes for me.
My husband and I (both 28) have been married for 10 months. We have decided to try for a baby and its been 3 months so far. I was on the pill for 14 years and...
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My boyfriend and I had the same dream through different perspectives. The dream was horrible and I want to understand what it means.
I was at my bfs, and he was helping his grandad with something. Then just like that, we were working at our job. I remember my manager asking me to serve my friend. My friend disappeared and then All of a sudden, a girl that my bf and I know walks in, dressed in all white. She was there physically but not mentally, like a negative spirit of some sort took over. The energy that she gave off scared us both so much. She kept walking around the work place and just stared at my bf and me without saying anything. The dream doesn’t sound scary but the scary part was the energy. The energy I got from her was very creepy, I remember my bf waking me up in real life, knowing something wasn’t right.
When I told him my dream it turned out that he had the exact same dream too... we were too scared to go back to sleep and it was the middle of the night.
For his dream, the same events happened but she also tried to put her arms around him and when he kept saying “no” sternly, he looked at her and she had no head, so it was just her arms.
Does anyone know what this dream could mean, and how my bf and I had the same dream?
I was at my bfs, and he was helping his grandad with something. Then just like that, we were working at our job. I remember my manager asking me to serve my...
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Ok so super weird, never even thought about something like this
Ok, backstories for what I gathered it this dream it was weirdly vivid, this dream takes place in a world where there are humans and neko’s, but humans are racist towards the neko’s, anyways it start with me in a park bent over looking at the flowers, this dream was really vivid, the color of the flowers were blue and yellow they were mixed I think, but I got up and turned around I see a neko in a cloak I think, it was either a cloak or a Japanese outfit, she touched my chest with two fingers and my entire body was encased with ice, then a split second later the neko was gone and the ice shattered like glass, but she was behind me, I was about get up and then my neck started to feel extremely cold, then I think I was knocked out, but when I woke up I got up and headed home, but I saw people giving me weird looks and whispering to each other, i never made it home though, this whole bit is a bit of a blur but I remember I got it a fight, I crossed a little bridge then after that everything was clear again and I was at a friends house, he didn’t know who I was and I was super confused, I told him it was me, and he squinted his eyes and said “Logan?”, I said yeah and he said,”you do notice you have ears and a tail, right?”at first I thought he was joking, until I looked behind me and saw that I had a tail, I looked in a mirror and saw cat ears, I told him I couldn’t go back to my normal job, he agreed with me
Ok, backstories for what I gathered it this dream it was weirdly vivid, this dream takes place in a world where there are humans and neko’s, but humans are...
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