Dream About Desert

Deserts symbolize a feeling of loneliness and isolation, denotes your anxieties about trying to fit in or being well-suited for your changing role. If you feel lost in a desert in a dream, it an indication that you are feeling lonely or separated from others, points at a significant message or some advice. It is important to nurture relationships and connect with others to overcome this feeling, an evidence for a freer, less encumbered relationship.

Deserts are also places where life is renewed, a sign for repressed disappointments which has accumulated over a period of time. If the dream of a desert is interspersed with greenery, it mean that you are making a new beginning or that your personal growth and transformation is about to begin, a portent for a situation where you have almost everything that you can possible want or need.

In this case, it helpful to let your inner strength guide you and find ways to deal with challenges, wiki is an indication for unexpressed hostility which may erupt in violence if not expressed in a controlled manner.

Deserts also represent freedom and unlimited possibilities, stands for some dissension in a group. If in the dream you feel free and enjoy the vastness of the desert, it a sign that you are able to pursue your dreams and goals and that you are well on your way to success, represents your retreat from reality.

Desert dreams have various meanings based on one's personal experiences, cultural beliefs, and psychological state, a premonition for drawing your attention to something that you need to see or take notice.

Dreaming of a desert signifies a sense of loneliness and emptiness in one's life, denotes cunningness and terror. It represent feeling isolated or disconnected from others, or a feeling of being lost and unsure about the direction of one's life, a portent for vigor, vitality and power. The vast emptiness of the desert also symbolize a lack of emotional nourishment, and a need to find inner peace and fulfillment, refers to someone who escapes responsibility or culpability.

Sand: The sand in a desert dream indicate the passing of time, and the inevitability of change, a signal for your flowing thoughts. It also represent the need for patience and persistence, as progress slow and difficult, signifies you may be looking for some form of approval. Cactus: The cactus in a desert dream represent resilience, as it thrive in a harsh and barren environment, states a sense of being out of disorganized. It also symbolize protection and defense, as the sharp spikes deter predators, a sign for confidence, protection and courage. Mirage: Seeing a mirage in a desert dream signify the illusion of hope and expectations, states something is about to be completed in your life. It indicate that what one is seeking is not real or attainable, and that it is necessary to let go of these false hopes in order to move forward, expresses a fear of being exposed or seen.

In some religious and spiritual beliefs, deserts considered sacred and symbolize spiritual growth and meditation, represents the emotional difficulties that you experience in life. For example, the desert was where Moses received the 10 commandments in the Bible, and where the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelations in Islam, an evidence for rightness of an idea, decision, or plan. Thus, dreaming of a desert indicate a need for spiritual reflection, and a call to deepen one's faith, signifies a sweet reward.

In Native American cultures, deserts were considered places of power and spirituality, a metaphor for solitude and unfaithfulness. Dreaming of a desert indicate a need to connect with one's ancestry and cultural roots, points at your control over a situation. In some African cultures, deserts represented the realm of ancestors and spirits, and signify a call to reconnect with the spiritual world, refers to issues or responsibilities at work.

From a psychological perspective, dreaming of a desert represent an unconscious fear of abandonment or rejection, represents bad management. It also indicate a need for solitude and introspection, as well as a sense of adventure and exploration, a clue for a situation in your life that requires strategy, patience and composure.

Embrace change: The desert represent the passing of time and the inevitability of change, points at separation, sadness and bereavement. If you are feeling stuck or stagnant in your life, this dream a call to embrace change and move forward, an evidence for your vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Find inner peace: The vast emptiness of the desert symbolize a lack of emotional nourishment, a portent for an altered sense of may be a means of escaping the that may be associated with your home. Take time to reflect on what brings you inner peace and fulfillment, and make sure to prioritize these things in your life, represents the limit you have set for yourself. Connect with spirituality: Dreaming of a desert a call to connect with your faith or spirituality, a portent for concerns over your public image. Take time to meditate, pray, or engage in spiritual practices that bring you a sense of peace and fulfillment, an indication for a positive turn of events.

Dreaming of a desert symbolize feeling lost, isolated, and disconnected from the world around you, means anxiety about of control. It also represent feelings of being overwhelmed or stuck in a situation that you feel powerless to change, expresses collective action. The desert also be a sign of spiritual growth and transformation, as it is often seen as a place of purification and renewal, sadly a warning alert for a lost in status.

If the desert is lush and green, it a sign that you are in the midst of a period of growth and abundance in your life, an evidence for a message that you or someone is trying to convey to you. If the desert is barren and dry, it a sign that you are feeling depleted or stuck in an unfulfilling situation, a message for success, popularity and creativity.

It symbolize feeling lost or overwhelmed, but it also be a sign of spiritual growth and transformation, your desire to do something an impression on others.

What does it mean Desert in a dream?

  • If you have seen desert in your dream, You can benefit from the new environment you will meet, do not ignore the beauties in your private life. To see a desert in a dream indicates that a person who is in trouble with himself and does not know which way to go, must get help from some of his loved ones. Traveling in the desert in a dream means being protected from sin, living your religion properly, and a happy life.The body seen in the dream means a healthy reliable spouse, they will lead a peaceful life and they will be satisfied with each other.
  • To see a desert in a dream indicates an extraordinary life that will be lived in luxury and comfort. It indicates that the dreamer will be extremely lucky in the worldly life in favor of money, property and blessings and will benefit from all these abundantly. It is a very auspicious dream, it indicates that the dreamer will be lucky not only in wealth and property, but also in peace, joy and happiness. It is interpreted that the person who sees this dream will have a full life thanks to both material wealth and spiritual wealth.

Theresa Cheung Interpretation

Your waking feelings about the desert will be significant here; that which is a terrible ordeal for one person may symbolize romance and escapism for another. Likewise, a desert island may have a romantic associations for some people, whilst for others it can mean isolation, an intense desire for privacy or a cry for solitude to end in waking life. A dream of being alone in a desert may signify emotional isolation or being surrounded by a sea of emotions, and dreams of being with someone in the desert can indicate that this particular relationship is coming to an end. Such dreams can also suggest the need—if you are to survive—to consider very carefully a course of action you are about to take. Bear in mind, too, that the desert’s vast expanse and rich underground life may represent an invitation to seek out the mysteries of life beneath the surface.

Any dream that focuses on sand may have been highlighting the sands of time, which may be running out for you in certain aspects of your waking life. Quicksand, like bogs and swamps, reveals the uncertainties that can be found in even a seemingly firm reality.

If you are seeking out an oasis in your dream, it may represent the inner fears and insecurities that you may have to deal with.

When you are resting at an oasis, positive future business and monetary ventures may be around the corner, although it might simply be a sign that you are in need of a vacation.

Martha Clarke Interpretation

It represents death, aridity, and nonexistence.

If you dream of being in the desert, without water and suffering from the heat of the sun, it means that you feel lonely, unloved, and unmotivated. Therefore, you must start giving to others in order to receive later. But if the dream involves a pleasant feeling it announces that you expect significant possibilities and creative projects. On the other hand, the desert has always been seen as a favorable place for divine revelation and meditation. This is because the desert can also be defined as “pure abstraction.” (See AIR, YELLOW and SAND)

This dream could signify a time of spiritual settling and beginning. Great historical figures, like Jesus, the Tibetan Lamas, and the Hindu Wise Men, stayed for long periods of time secluded in desert lands to get closer to their true nature. Distanced from mundane distractions, they recognized their divine interior. Your dream expresses the same sentiments

Garuda Interpretation

Vision: Walking in the desert: professional success will come only slowly and with much effort; withdrawing from other people will bring loneliness. Seeing a desert: you are being deprived of something, or you are going to be very lonely for a while.

Depth Psychology: Your life is lacking feelings and intuition; you use too much logic and reason.

The desert is a symbol of desolation and impotence. Your barren soul is desperately in need of water (emotions and feelings!). Do you believe that you are in a hopeless situation? Going into the desert: you will thirst— for affection maybe. Are you chasing a fantasy? Are you lonely? A desert dream wants to give you a “mental” push: think about what changes you could make to restore happiness and productivity to your life. Analyze your present situation honestly (take a close look at the rest of the symbols in the dream)—things can only get better!

Silvana Amar Interpretation

At times a desert in a dream symbolizes the unconscious and represents the dreamer’s sense of separation from it. Deserts are generally barren with little vegetation or animal life.

The desert in your dreams could be bringing up issues of stagnation and periods of little growth in your life. Also, the desert could represent your loneliness and feelings of isolation. However, if you live close to the desert or love the desert, this may be a positive symbol.

For some the desert may be a place where they can commune with nature and feel a sense of peace.

Dream Explanations - Anonymous Interpretation

Dreams of the desert symbolize “no-man’s land”, the draught before the rain, and the darkest hour that is before the dawn. You may be experiencing hardship, loneliness, trial and tribulations, and a loss of passion and a sense of self because you are not who you used to be and you are not yet who your are becoming. Your dream is giving you the message to not give up five minutes before the miracle, because once you make it through this dry spell, you will be greatly rewarded with the character strength and the wisdom you learn and earn.

Tony Crisp Interpretation

or wilderness Loneliness, literally being deserted; lack of emotion or satisfaction; no creativity or growth in one’s life; dry intellectualism; death; sexual barrenness. Occa­sionally as the symbol in the Bible of wandering in the wilder­ness, which depicts the human sense of having no real mean­ing or direction, of being a wanderer in the infinity of time and decision, it shows the difficulty of being self responsible and making decisions in the infinity of choices, and of honouring the self in such decisions.

myjellybean Interpretation

The desert in dreams represents the unconscious mind.

To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, suggests that losses and sad emotional times are ahead for the dreamer.

If a young woman dreams of being alone in the desert, her health and reputation is being endangered by her indiscreet behavior in real life and she should be more careful.

If you dream of finding an oasis in the desert, you are feeling smothered or not getting the kind of attention you want in a real life relationship.

James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver Interpretation

Deserts may be fairly straightforward symbols for a sense of barrenness, poverty, lack, exhaustion, loneliness, or even death. On the other hand, as the unsettled “wilderness,” deserts often represent the unconscious, particularly the shadow self. Deserts have a wider range of meanings for someone from the desert Southwest than for someone from the East Coast.

As with all dream symbols, the atmosphere and setting of the dream indicate which meaning is appropriate. (See also Sand).

Dr. Mıchael Lennox Interpretation

There may be an obvious lack of passion and life force in your life right now. In a desert, you have to look deeper for the signs of life that are actually there, so a dream that takes place in a desert may be calling you to do just that. Do not take the surface appearance of things at face value. Look below the surface and you will find that there is more going on than meets the eye.

A dream desert is also inviting you to irrigate and fill your life with more emotion and passion.

Pamela Ball Interpretation

1- To dream of being alone in a desert signifies a lack of emotional satisfaction, loneliness or perhaps isolation.

Dreaming of being in a desert with someone else may show that particular relationship is sterile, or going nowhere.

2- We may need to consider a course of action very carefully if we arc to ‘survive’ in our present circumstances.

3- A desert can symbolise desolation and abandonment, but also a place of contemplation, quiet and divine revelation.

Pagan - Anonymous Interpretation

Deserts symbolize your unconscious. Since deserts are generally barren, dreaming of one could symbolize issues of stagnation lack of growth in your life. Also, the desert could represent feelings of loneliness and isolation. If, on the other hand, you have a particular affinity for deserts, then dreaming of one may be a positive symbol for you, presaging a period of serenity and oneness for you.

Nancy Wagaman Interpretation

A mentally or emotionally harsh environment.

A characteristic you associate with deserts or with a particular desert (hot, dry, lifeless, empty, interesting, exotic, etc.).

Something with a desert-like characteristic (such as an empty landscape or a person with a dry sense of humor).

See also: Landscape; Hot; Dry; Dry Up; Sand; Dust; Depleted; Sparse; Scarcity; Rural; Region; Location

Theresa Cheung Interpretation

A desert may reflect feelings of isolation, being in a place that has no interest for you or a desire to get away and have some time to yourself. Or it could be hinting at things you have deserted or left behind. Although we think of deserts as barren places, they are in fact teeming with underground life, so is your life a bit like a desert— desolate on the surface but rich underneath?

Patrica Telesco Interpretation

(see Camel, Oasis, Sand) Spiritual dryness.

A retreat to find and understand the sacred, as both Moses and Jesus did in the wilderness.

If you are alone or lost in the desert, a type of desertion dream.

A very dry abyss wherein one may either lose or find oneself.

An unforgiving situation over which you’ll have little control once you’ve entered into that domain.

Ariadne Green Interpretation

A desert, with its desolate and arid terrain, represents difficulties, hardships, and a general lack of resources for sustaining life. In a dream, a desert may represent a lack of fertility in life, such as financial difficulties, or even in the body, indicating infertility for: he man or woman wishing to conceive a child.

Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett Interpretation

In bloom, and/or in clear sunny weather, a dream featuring a desert predicts contentment and good success in your efforts; but if the weather was bad or if there was a sandstorm, you can expect some immediate difficulties due to hidden opposition, but the outcome will be better than you expect

Gustavus Hindman Miller Interpretation

To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine and uprisal of races and great loss of life and property.

For a young woman to find herself alone in a desert, her health and reputation is being jeopardized by her indiscretion. She should be more cautious.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Psychological / emotional perspective: Desertion implies that all support has been removed or rejected so the idea of deserting a post, task or friend suggests a sense of inadequacy. Experiencing ourselves as having been deserted signifies being left to our own devices.

Internet Archive - Anonymous Interpretation

To dream that you are travelling across a Desert, or a wide open space, signifies difficulties concerning some cherished plan.

It is particularly bad if you encounter bad weather or other troubles.

If the sun is shining, then the final outcome will be successful.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

Material aspects: To dream of being alone in a desert signifies a lack of emotional satisfaction, loneliness or perhaps isolation.

Dreaming of being in a desert with someone else may show that particular relationship is sterile, or going nowhere.

DreamForth Interpretation

To dream that you are walking through a desert suggests bad luck and deprivation. Your good name could be under assault. Deserts are symbols of emptiness, void of hope, infertility, and a sense of being alone.

Ella Freeman Sharpe Interpretation

When the dreamer is in the desert, thirsty and worn, there is need for assistance to salvage the dreamer’s possessions. This may be purely a change of mental attitude or may mean rehabilitation.

Tyler Wolfe Interpretation

Symbolic of a cursed or spiritually dry area, Jer. 51:43.

The desert can also symbolize a place of insolation for a season in someone’s life

Indian - Anonymous Interpretation

Travelling across a desert shows the inevitability of a long and tedious journey. Accompaniment of sunshine indicates successful journey.

Vincent Wienand Interpretation

1. Forsaken;

2. Hopeless;

3. Temptation;

4. Supernatural provision. Jer. 17:6; 50:12, 39; Is. 21:1; 27:10; 33:9; 40 3; Ps. 107:4-5.

Katherine Taylor Craig Interpretation

Loss of friends and wealth are shown by this dream (Artemidorus); loneliness and isolation are plainly symbolized.

Versatile - Anonymous Interpretation

A desert can symbolize desolation and abandonment, but also a place of contemplation, quiet and divine revelation.

Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin Interpretation

1. Isolation, retreat.

2. A need for solitude and space, cleans­ing.

3. Loneliness.

4. Sorrow and shame.

Margaret Hamilton Interpretation

A place in one’s life that is desolate because of spiritual drought; see “drought”

Raymond Buckland Interpretation

To find yourself in a desert is a sign that you are searching for knowledge.

Betty Bethards Interpretation

Stagnation, no growth. Time to get on with your life.

Eric Ackroyd Interpretation

see Oasis, Wilderness

Ibn Seerin Interpretation

(Waterless plain) Seeing a desert in a dream means escaping from difficulty to ease, or bidding farewell to adversities to meet with opportunities, or it could mean repenting from sin, reversing the course of one’s business from loss to profits, or it could mean recovering from an illness.

If one sees himself poor and walking into a desert land or a ruin in a dream, it means his death. Walking through a barren land in a dream means engaging in a futile business or a benign affair. Walking in a plain in a dream means reaching ease in one’s life, receiving honor or engaging in good deeds depending on how far one walks in that plain during his dream.

A desert in a dream represents joy and happiness, depending on how vast it seems and how green are its plants in one’s dream.

Zolar Interpretation

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bad weather, crossing a, in: intuition, feelings, logic and reason must work together.

sandstorm: impotence to activate your cherished plan.

being thirsty in the: a drink of energy wil push you to productivity.

island: romantic isolation in barren cheerless place.

lost in a: bring your own protection from the empty isolation.

others crossing a: friends are depriving you of companionship.

stranded in the: are being baked in horrifying seclusion.

traveling across a: with slow, painstaking effort you wil succeed.

walking in the: withdrawing from people enhances loneliness.

with others, crossing a: accord among friends, if you are resourceful.

Towers, Jacqueline Interpretation

To see a desert in its natural state and in sunshine indicates satisfaction and success in all that you do. If the weather is bad, and particularly if there is a sandstorm, you will encounter immediate problems due to concealed hostility. However, you will be pleasantly surprised at the outcome.

Jean Boushahla Interpretation

barren of spiritual life; a call to improve relationships since deserts are associated with non-productiveness; an ancient symbol for the solitude of meditation; feelings of isolation; emotions or creativity have "gone dry."

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

place of spiritual refuge and protection from Satan (see Revelation 12:6); land not sown (char); trials/hard, trying times (see Jeremiah 2:2; Revelation 12:6); time/place of trial/testing (see Deuteronomy 8:15; Psalm 106:14; Isaiah 25:4-5; Jeremiah 17:6); parched places (see Jeremiah 17:6); forsaken (see Isaiah 27:10); see Themes/Places/Desert.

Marsha Trimble Dunstan Interpretation

place where there is nothing but God (see Isaiah 35:1-10; Hosea 2:14); where God speaks tenderly (see Hosea 2:14); time of purification; place of death (see Numbers 16:13); place of trials (see Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 29:5; Revelation 12:6; 17:3); dry, thirsty place; place without God (see Psalm 107:4; Ezekiel 19:13; 29:5; Matthew 3:3); an unsown land (see Jeremiah 2:2); unproductive place/unfulfilled promises/mirage (see Isaiah 33:9; 35:1-10; Jeremiah 9:12).

Georg Fink Interpretation

Dreaming about the desert, a symbol for loneliness, is a reference to the isolation that we feel in real life, despite all the contact we have with other people. Riding or wandering through the desert means that we will reach our goal only through extreme deprivation or effort.

Ian Wallace Interpretation

Situation in which a persistent lack of emotion leaves only the harsh realities of the bare facts and hard choices

Cathleen Connor Interpretation

A desert is usually thought of as a barren place, where little grows. It can symbolize a fear of death, or of being infertile. But dreaming of a desert can also alert you to hidden beauty and hidden life that is camouflaged by ordinary perceptions.

Mary Summer Interpretation

(forsake) See abandon

Mary Summer Interpretation

(hot, sandy region) connotes a life stage or condition whereby one needs a reserve of strength and perseverance

Strong, Gerard Interpretation

If the dreamer is walking in the desert, it predicts a journey. If a storm breaks out during the dream, it means that the journey will not be satisfactory. If the dreamer is in the desert and is suffering from hunger and thirst, it means he needs to invigorate his life.

Julie Gillentine Interpretation

Barrenness, parched land, a mystical quest.