If you had a dream about drawing with a pencil: Certain issues concerning your private life, business life or family may start to move in a different direction, your private life may be preventing your progress. To draw with a pencil in a dream refers to being happy, being a knowledgeable person, gaining meaning in life, looking at life well, achieving one's goals and succeeding in looking at life well. Trying to write with a pen in a dream means that you are getting tired of realizing the things in your mind and keeping your plans.