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What are shopping dreams about?

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 shopping dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how shopping in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that shopping is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that shopping is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, shopping dreams have more human-made places than 95.4% of dream symbols, more home than 85.4% of dream symbols, and more eating and drinking than 84.2% of dream symbols. On the other hand, shopping dreams have less fear than 85.0% of dream symbols, less death than 83.8% of dream symbols, and less pain than 79.8% of dream symbols. 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 shopping is different than dreams of shopping in general.

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of dreams have shopping

How common are shopping dreams?

5.0% of dreams have the shopping symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is common.

Identification

How are shopping dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like shop and buy. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of verbs.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of shopping?

Shopping dreams are notable because they have substantially more Cameroon, Princess Leia, hairdressers, malls, human-made places, places, bankruptcy, coffee, grocery stores, R2-D2, finding money than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of shopping?

Shopping dreams are notable because they have substantially less bobcats, Congo, Cyprus, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Serbia, Colombia, emaciation than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into shopping dreams

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

Who is in dreams of shopping?

Who is in dreams of shopping?

Dreams of shopping are more related to peers, more related to family, 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 dreams of shopping?

What are the emotions in dreams of shopping?

Dreams of shopping are less related to grief and sorrow, less related to fear, and less related to pain.

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Where do dreams of shopping take place?

Where do dreams of shopping take place?

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

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What happens in dreams of shopping?

What happens in dreams of shopping?

Dreams of shopping are more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and less related to death.

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

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

Shopping dreams are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.

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How do dreams of shopping related the senses?

How do dreams of shopping related the senses?

Dreams of shopping are more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing, less related to vision, and less related to touch.

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How can you make sense of shopping in dreams?

Shopping dreams are common. Among other things shopping dreams are Do you think this is true for your dream of shopping? How might your dream of shopping 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 shopping 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 shopping in dreams. See how you feel about shopping now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of shopping dreams

An interpretation of shopping 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. Shopping in a dream can symbolize making choices or decisions. It’s associated with options, such as when choosing from a menu. See: Menus Shopping for clothes can tie in with a person’s importance and image. It can connect with making choices and decisions about your outer identity or persona. Clothes cover you and say a lot about a person in one glance. For example, a “man in uniform,” an executive in a Brooks Brothers suit, a woman out on the town wearing an Armani gown, and a person wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “I’m with stupid” across the front. Each creates a distinctly different impression. See: Clothing The type of shop and what you shop for can indicate the subject of the symbolism. For example, shopping for groceries can relate to your food choices and things you consume, including nonmaterial things, such as information, entertainment, and opinion. See: Eating, Food, Grocery stores Shopping in a toy store can connect with childhood and maturity. Choosing to return items to a toy store can mean you have decided to present a more adult image. Shopping can mean “shop around.” For example, you can shop around for a spouse or just a date, for a job, for a better deal—anything involving choices and decisions. To explore this idea further, see: Mall. Obsessions and addictions involve choices, and shopping can be an obsession or addiction, creating two potential layers of association. See: Addicts For some people, shopping is a major part of their social lives. Having disposable income with which to shop is a sign of status and an indicator of having leisure time. See: Money Shopping is related to finances—stories abound of spouses and children costing a bundle and running up the credit cards. See: Walls The price of something can connect with the personal price, such as the price of friendship or of failure. Think further and consider associations such as bumping into someone unexpectedly while shopping. For example, dreaming about bumping into an old friend at a store can symbolize the choices you make about your friends. The dream is making a comparison or contrast between then and now. See: Old friends The front of a store is the public face of a business, and in dreams that idea can connect with public aspects of your work life, such as your reputation, image, or publicity. It can connect with the idea of “open for business” or “accepting new clients.” For an example of a storefront used as symbolism, see: Fisting. See also: Addicts, Bankruptcy, Chasing, Clothing, Eating, Food, Grocery stores, Jobs, Malls, Menus, Money, Old friends, Walls

Examples of dreams of shopping

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 shopping 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 shopping dreams. Read at your own risk.

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