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.

Shopping dreams are less related to grief and sorrow, less related to fear, and less related to pain.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 shopping 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 shopping in dreams. See how you feel about shopping 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. 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