Carpenter dream meaning is explained below using 18 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Zolar

lucky numbers: 06-09-13-22-23-45

auger, drilling with an: a tiresome companion wil extend his stay.

bandsaw, using a: wil win praise from your employer before long.

being at work: legitimate success in financial matters for shaping ideas.

chisel, using a: wil mislay important papers that define your design.

buying a: wil obtain desires through energetic work.

drawknife, shaving wood with a: heartening support wil come from creditors.

drill, using a: are overcoming the shyness, which precluded your forming relationships.

fixing the house: forget frivolity, get straight to the source.

hiring: unexpected and pleasant occurrences arriving with a bang.

lathe, operating a: your fortune is in the ideas you favor.

lever, using a: your strength wil be enhanced once the plane is level.

sandpaper, finishing with: your imagination covers too vast an area to be productive.

tack, pounding: care for your reputation; your quick, sharp wit may be infamous.

pulling out a: arguments with your employer.

vise, using a: a task being squeezed to a forced conclusion.

working busily: wil use practical wisdom to unlock the intuitive unknown.

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

Interpretation 2 — Ibn Seerin

A carpenter in a dream represents a teacher or an educator. Seeing a carpenter in a dream also means curbing off the intentions of hypocrites and obliging them to comply with what is correct. Constructing a canoe in a dream means travels. Building a water-wheel in a dream means profits from real estate, building a mill in a dream means disputes. Fixing a door latch in a dream means marriage or children. Building a plow in a dream means farming.

(Also see Construction worker)

Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation • Author: Ibn Seerin

Interpretation 3 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Dreams of a carpenter symbolize your ability to take life into your own hands and create your life the way you want it to be. Generally these dreams are calling you to enjoy fully the abundance that surrounds you. Consider the feeling tone of this dream, it may be showing you that you are hammering, controlling and pushing too hard to get the results you desire.
Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Interpretation 4 — Ariadne Green

The appearance of a carpenter in a dream may suggest that you arc ready to build something new in your life or make an addition to your present plan for the future. He may come to help you make some changes in your thinking patterns in order to construct a new attitude about yourself or your life.

A carpenter may appear to represent Jesus and his salvation.

Source: Ariadne's Book of Dream • Author: Ariadne Green

Interpretation 5 — Tony Crisp

The creative but practical part of us; the side of us which tends to create with old ideas and attitudes (the wood) but which perhaps is not very radical; sometimes the self.

See Christ under archetypes.

Source: A Guide to Dreams and Sleep Experiences • Author: Tony Crisp

Interpretation 6 — myjellybean

To see a carpenter, or dream that you are a carpenter, is a very good dream symbol. It implies that you are confronting and overcoming your obstacles, and that you will have love, respect and happiness.
Source: My Dream Interpretation • Author: myjellybean

Interpretation 7 — DreamForth

To dream about being a carpenter suggests that you are dealing with difficulties. On the contrary, it also indicates that you should alter your way of thinking or change the way you behave.
Source: Dream Symbols and Analysis • Author: DreamForth

Interpretation 8 — Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

This busy fellow is one of the happiest symbols you can dream up.

Whether you were one, observed one, or hired one, you will have love, respect, leisure, and the means to enjoy it!

Source: The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams • Author: Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett

Interpretation 9 — Martha Clarke

To exercise a carpenter’s job, good manual skills as well as some artistic sensitivity are needed. The dream is telling you to enhance these qualities in order to progress.
Source: The Big Dictionary of Dreams • Author: Martha Clarke

Interpretation 10 — Gustavus Hindman Miller

To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest endeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime or so-called recreation.
Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation • Author: Gustavus Hindman Miller

Interpretation 11 — Klaus Vollmar

See Wood. Architect, builder of the roof— in other words, consciousness, intellect, and the mind. One who builds knowledge and awareness.
Source: Little Giant Encyclopedia • Author: Klaus Vollmar

Interpretation 12 — Ella Freeman Sharpe

To watch a carpenter at work denotes the need for diligent application to your own occupation if you wish to succeed.
Source: Psycho Dream Interpretation • Author: Ella Freeman Sharpe

Interpretation 13 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

1. Able to overcome obstacles.

2. Carefully view one’s life with a critical eye (how did one build it?).

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

Interpretation 14 — Betty Bethards

Building your life. Repairs, maintenance, additions, subtractions; see what you are doing and what is needed.
Source: The Dream Books Symbols • Author: Betty Bethards

Interpretation 15 — Internet Archive - Anonymous

To see workmen busily engaged is a sign that you will overcome your difficulties.
Source: Mystic Dream Book • Author: Internet Archive - Anonymous

Interpretation 16 — Ibn Seerin

A man who subdues people. He has great influential powers.
Source: Islamic Dream Interpretation • Author: Ibn Seerin

Interpretation 17 — Margaret Hamilton

One who builds up others; see “construction”
Source: Dream Dictionary Unlimited • Author: Margaret Hamilton

Interpretation 18 — Vincent Wienand

1. Jesus;

2. Builder. Matt. 13:55.

Source: Dream Dictionary The Biblical Model • Author: Vincent Wienand