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What does it mean to dream about money?

Money in dreams is almost never about your bank balance. It usually stands for self-worth, confidence or security. Finding money may be discovering something valuable in yourself; losing it, feeling out of control or exposed; being robbed, feeling powerless. What happened to the money points to the reading.

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Money in dreams is almost never about your bank balance. We already talk about feelings in money terms: self-worth, feeling emotionally bankrupt. What happened to the money, and what you did with it, point to the meaning.

What dreaming about money may mean

  1. AFinding something valuable in yourself

    Finding money may be about discovering good qualities in yourself, perhaps ones that were hidden for a long time. What you do with it says how settled that feels: hiding it suggests you're afraid of losing it, spending it suggests you feel secure.

    You found money · You found money and saved it or hid it · You found money and spent it

  2. BNot feeling you deserve it

    Finding riches and not daring to take them may reflect a sense that someone else deserves it more, or that you'll be punished for having it. Lessons about money from childhood are often at work here.

    You found riches and didn't dare take them

  3. CConfidence, or effort rewarded

    Being given money, or winning it, may come as you get ready to try something new and feel your goals confirmed. Being paid may be about feeling recognized for your effort.

    Someone gave you money, or you won · You were paid · You felt a sense of accomplishment

  4. DLosing your footing, or outgrowing something

    Money can stand for position, power and safety, so losing it may reflect feeling out of control and exposed. If the loss didn't feel so bad, it may be the opposite: letting go of old values you no longer need.

    You lost money · You lost money, and it didn't feel so bad

  5. EFear of not having enough

    Being suddenly penniless may be about a fear of losing your place in the world: being let go, not getting in, or being left for someone better. Feeling poor in a dream may reflect a sense that you lack what you need, or a worry about losing your security.

    You were suddenly penniless · You, or someone close to you, seemed poor or in need · You felt anxious about money

  1. FFeeling powerless, or quietly relieved

    Being robbed may reflect feeling like a victim with no power over what happens. If it turns out you set the robbery up, the dream may be about relief at being freed of a responsibility.

    You were robbed · You turned out to be behind the robbery yourself

  2. GReaching for what you want

    Stealing money may be about getting ready to go after your goals while part of you asks "Who do you think you are?" It can also be about wanting a quality someone else has, or envying them for it.

    You stole money or valuables

  3. HTaking on new strength

    An inheritance may stand for taking on parts of yourself that leave you feeling stronger, possibly at someone else's expense.

    You inherited money or valuables

  4. IAlready finding a way back

    Getting back what you lost may show you're already looking for a way to solve the problem.

    You got back what you'd lost

  5. JRisk, a lucky break, or a number that stuck

    Foreign currency and the stock market may be about weighing a personal risk. A lottery draw may carry the pull of an easy win without the effort. If one particular sum stuck in your mind, the number itself may be part of the message.

    Foreign currency, exchange rates or the stock market came up · You were absorbed in a lottery draw · You remember a specific amount

These are possibilities, not verdicts. The reading that fits is the one that matches the details and the feeling of your dream, and what's going on in your life.

Questions that tell the readings apart

  1. Q1What did you do with the money?Hiding it, spending it and not daring to touch it are three different dreams.
  2. Q2What did your family teach you about money?Old lessons about money often shape how it shows up in dreams.

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