Burden dream meaning is explained below using 11 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Garuda

Vision: Carrying a great burden: you are going through a difficult time, but you are strong and up to the challenge. Throwing a burden off your back: you have enough strength to find a solution to an old problem. Watching others carry a burden: you are managing a difficult job at the moment.

Depth Psychology: A burden is the symbol of a responsibility that has become burdensome. Can you free yourself from it? See Ix>g.

Source: Dreamers Dictionary • Author: Garuda

Interpretation 2 — Gustavus Hindman Miller

To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice, caused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power. But to struggle free from it, you will climb to the topmost heights of success.
Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation • Author: Gustavus Hindman Miller

Interpretation 3 — Zolar

lucky numbers: 04-13-20-17-29-39

carrying a burden: your strength wil struggle to be independent of others.

others: expect a large inheritance from a difficult job.

throwing off a: unjust favoritism toward enemies weighs on you.

Source: Zolar’s Book of Dreams Numbers and Lucky Days • Author: Zolar

Interpretation 4 — Eric Ackroyd

(1) What load are you carrying through life with you? Guilt collected from childhood traumas? Whatever it is, drop it. Stop playing the martyr.

(2) Is there some person on your back - in real life? If so, tell him or her where to get off!

Source: A Dictionary of Dream Symbols • Author: Eric Ackroyd

Interpretation 5 — Stephen Girard

Heavy burdens signify that you will have to labor for another person's support; if you cannot bear the burden, many persons will depend upon you; if it is supportable, you will be able to sustain the additional care with honor and credit.
Source: The Mystic Dream Book • Author: Stephen Girard

Interpretation 6 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

1. Feeling a lack of independence.

2. Success after bearing many responsibilities.

3. A need to reduce the number of re­sponsibilities (as in to “lighten the load”).

Source: New American Dream Dictionary • Author: Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

Interpretation 7 — Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

This dream is an omen of success, providing you were not yourself carrying the burden; if you were, you can expect an increase in your responsibilities.
Source: The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams • Author: Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

Interpretation 8 — Tyler Wolfe

This can be a symbol for a person’s sins or anxieties in life, Ps. 38:4, Matt. 11:30.

A burden can also symbolize other people’s problems, Gal. 6:2

Source: Christian Dream Symbols • Author: Tyler Wolfe

Interpretation 9 — Gillian Holloway

Any kind of a burden carried in a dream predicts trials and worries of a personal nature.
Source: The Complete Dream Book • Author: Gillian Holloway

Interpretation 10 — Internet Archive - Anonymous

To carry some Burden in a dream, shows that you will be dependent upon other people.
Source: Mystic Dream Book • Author: Internet Archive - Anonymous

Interpretation 11 — Ibn Seerin

(Carrying weight, Forbearance, Porter, Serving others)
Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation • Author: Ibn Seerin