What are shopping dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like shop and buy.
Shopping in dreams is a relatively common dream symbol, occuring in about 4.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams.
What are the major highlights of shopping dreams?
Shopping is a normal dream symbol. Having shopping in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.
What symbols more present in dreams of shopping?
Shopping dreams are notable because they have substantially more malls, hairdressers, Cameroon, ice cream, money, Bolivia, grocery stores, human places, drinks, jewelry, coffee, Haiti, places, finding money, bartenders, parking lots, restaurants and bars, food, Somalia, snack, service workers, menus, food in general, bankruptcy, employees, movement, purse, bags, ice, walmart, Estonia, general movement, meals, chefs, toys, Croatia, candy, going, shoes, paris, towns, wallets, characters, Denmark, real locations, cocaine, robbing, clothing, gas stations, Portugal, boxes, lawyers, airports, pizzas, places of transit, Peru, cities, lobbies, and India than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of shopping?
Shopping dreams are notable because they have substantially less nightmares, recurring nightmares, paralysis, donkeys, sleep paralysis, trying to scream, false awakening, recurring dreams, opened my eyes, shopping, verbs, other verbs, seeing a dead friend, snakes, teeth falling out, wolves, cold sweats, aliens, submarines, floating, sharks, beds, forests, grim reapers, subconscious, black eyes, bedrooms, lucid dreams, backwards, closed my eyes, general body parts, owls, mirror, dead bodies, jealousy, sleeping, Donald Trump, scorpions, the earth, the moon, worms, fear, spaceships, pus, and stabbing than 95% of other dream symbols.
What are the symbols that help define shopping?
The symbol of shopping in dreams is highly related to stores.
How does the dream symbol of shopping affect the different aspects of a dream?
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Who is in shopping dreams?
Overall, dreams with shopping are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shopping are more related to close people, 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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Who is in shopping dreams?
Overall, dreams with shopping are more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shopping are more related to home, more related to work, and much more related to human 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 shopping dreams?
Overall, dreams with shopping are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shopping are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to disasters.
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How do shopping in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with shopping are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of shopping are more related to waking life than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares, less related to recurring nightmares, and less related to sleep paralysis.
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How can you make sense of shopping in dreams?
Shopping dreams are relatively common. Among other things shopping dreams are normally interconnect.
Do you think this is true for your dream of shopping? How might your dream of shopping 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 shopping 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 shopping in dreams. See how you feel about shopping now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of shopping?
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
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 shopping
Read some real dream reports of shopping 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.
I dreamt I had screws drilled into the back of my neck.
(19F) I had this dream where I'm being criticized for praising Jesus. A group of women (4-5) chased me down with a cordless drill. The main chick wanted a photo of my face so I ran trying to cover it. (Not sure if they were atheists, feminists or what) but in the house I was trying to get out the window because they tried breaking in and eventually made it inside the house. I ran out the window and got into my car and drove off. They followed behind. Shortly after, I went into a shopping center and they caught me. They had me pinned down. Then, with the cordless drill, the lady smirked as she drilled screws into the back of my neck. The goal was so that I couldn't turn my head. Also, one of them put a napkin up to my face, so I would lose conscious. My eyesight was getting blurry, and I tried to get up but was in too much pain.
(19F) I had this dream where I'm being criticized for praising Jesus. A group of women (4-5) chased me down with a cordless drill. The main chick wanted a photo...
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Did you already have a dream in which you or other people were wearing masks? Or talking about them, or thinking about them due to COVID-19?
I had my first dream about them last night, I dreamt I was in a store shopping for clothes and then all of a sudden I realized I wasn’t wearing a mask and I was like: oh! No! I’m gonna catch COVID-19! I was anxious about it in my dream. There were people around me and some were wearing a mask but some weren’t.
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I had my first dream about them last night, I dreamt I was in a store shopping for clothes and then all of a sudden I realized I wasn’t wearing a mask and I was...
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Someone please help me decipher a dream
I had a terrible dream just now and i’m not sure what it means.
I fell asleep and i entered my dream. It started with my boyfriend and i together, in a walmart shopping for groceries for my grandfather. He was pushing me in the cart and i was telling him what he needed to get for the trip. I saw our mutual friend and invited him to join. We finish up our trip and go outside in the walmart parking lot. There’s now a huge group of us, and someone else is pushing me in the cart, i’m not sure who though. He pushes me into this big net, (the size of a circus tent), with the whole thing filled with bugs. i hate bugs. When i come
out i can’t find my boyfriend, so i have his friend take me home. When i get home i’m upset (naturally) so i go to take a nap. Here’s where it gets confusing. When i laid down, i tried to open my eyes, but i couldn’t. I could still move my body though. In the dream, i was laying down in the next spot i fell asleep in real life. So i couldn’t open my eyes, but i could move. This is already scary enough. So i try crawling down to the floor so i could go to the bathroom, and i make it there. I open my eyes a little bit and see that the bathroom is red, but that’s all i can see. I then go back to my room, in the same spot, and lay back down again. However, i didn’t make this decision willingly. It’s like something else lead me there, and forced me to lay back down. At this point it was hard to move, and all i could see was the ceiling above me. Then there was a repeating loop of me trying to get up and open my eyes, but i couldn’t. i kept trying to throw my head up, or jerk my arms or anything, but i still couldn’t do anything. When i woke up in real life, my neck hurt, i think i was jerking it in my sleep as well. This whole thing is very scary to me and i’m not sure what it means. All i know is that i was stuck in that spot, couldn’t move, see or talk. Towards the end of my dream i told myself to wake up, and i did. Can anybody please help my figure out what this means 🥺
I had a terrible dream just now and i’m not sure what it means.
I fell asleep and i entered my dream. It started with my boyfriend and i together, in a walmart...
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dreamed that the sun was really bright in my eyes, it was all I could see
the sun was really bright in my eyes, like a bright light
okay so i had this dream, I was walking through a mall or something, I got given the letter 'e' to find where i should go (my first name starts with e) letters were everywhere on the shops. everyone was trying to find their place to go, I found mine eventually but I felt too anxious to go in. so I just walked away, and then I noticed someone from the shops was following me, and then it was like the sun suddenly came really really bright in my eyes i couldn't see anything else, I tried covering my eyes in my dream but that didn't work. it felt like it lasted for a minute, it was like a bright light, a really bright sun. then I woke up, and my head was pounding when I first woke up for 5 seconds. there was no sun to come in while I was sleeping by the way. what do you think this could mean? I couldn't help but think that I almost could of died or some shit
my head feels dizzy, and I feel like I'm not all here after having that dream, pls help and give me an explanation of what this could mean
the sun was really bright in my eyes, like a bright light
okay so i had this dream, I was walking through a mall or something, I got given the letter 'e' to...
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Is he really my soulmate?
IT'S GONNA BE LONG BUT PLEASE JUST READ, I NEED HELP DESPERATELY
Backstory : I'm a 18 F, I've been what you'd call a psychic since a child, I dream of things and they happen the next day clearly, I predicted Corona on December 2019 without knowing anything about it. I also have crazy synchronicities that If I wasn't experiencing myself I'd think it's bs. Before someone dies I dream of it, I can easily connect with the dead, and this might sound crazy but bare with me please, I always felt a connection to the stars and other planets and can easily astral project to certain stars (That's where I feel home is)
Since I was a child I had a celebrity "crush" let's call him X and over the years it's like it turned to love, but it was too heavy on me and too passionate, so I started distracting myself from it. But I always used to tell myself "looking at him feels like looking into a mirror". I haven't thought of him in almost couple of years cause I was dating someone, but in one dream, X showed up, and we were at a beach kissing, then we were put in a coffee shop and I told him "so u aren't gay??" (because I genuinely thought he was gay) and he was laughing so beautifully and told me noo I can like women too and I remember telling him "I'm gonna go thank God and Jesus for this". But the last thing I saw in that dream was the green in his eyes, it was too vibrant to be just a dream, It looked soooo much more intense than irl. I thought nothing of it, and still didn't want to think of him, à month after that he showed up again, i dreamt he was showing me the night sky and pointing to a star, then he wrapped his arms around me and I felt like I was in a universe made of love. in the dream I remember seeing 6 pairs of the number "11"!! And I woke up so weirded out, could X really be my soulmate? So. when I woke up I checked IG and first post said clearly "HE IS YOUR SOULMATE" by then. I was like ok something is definitely going on, two days after that, I dreamt I was setting him up on dates with other ppl and felt so sad to do it, but then he came up to me, and wrapped his arms around me again and told me only wanted me and not them. I woke up and checked my clock, it was 11:11am
I keep getting signs every where that X is my soulmate but it's like I can't Beleive it cause he's a celebrity. I also asked my spirit if he's my soulmate or X is just an embodiment for my actual soulmate, but I feel in my heart that X is, not someone else. But what if I'm being delusional?
IT'S GONNA BE LONG BUT PLEASE JUST READ, I NEED HELP DESPERATELY
Backstory : I'm a 18 F, I've been what you'd call a psychic since a child, I dream of things...
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