Desert Dream Meaning

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 Landscape, Hot, Dry, Dry Up, Sand, Dust, Depleted, Sparse, Scarcity, Rural, Region, Location

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

2. A need for solitude and space, cleans­ing.

3. Loneliness.

4. Sorrow and shame.