Idle dream meaning is explained below using 5 different sources. Each interpretation is shown with its source.

Interpretation 1 — Pagan - Anonymous

If you dream of seeing people idling about this denotes that you are not using your time and energies to accomplish your best work.

A woman who is idle in her dream may accumulate bad habits and marry a faithless man. Seeing an idle friend may denote that this friend is in trouble, or about to get into trouble.

Source: Tryskelion Dream Interpretation • Author: Pagan - Anonymous

Interpretation 2 — Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen

If you dream of seeing people idling about this denotes that you are not using your time and energies to accomplish your best work.

A woman who is idle in her dream may accumulate bad habits and marry a faithless man. Seeing an idle friend may denote that this friend is in trouble, or about to get into trouble.

Source: Encyclopedia of Dreams • Author: Michael and Elizabeth Thiessen

Interpretation 3 — Gustavus Hindman Miller

If you dream of being idle, you will fail to accomplish your designs.

To see your friends in idleness, you will hear of some trouble affecting them.

For a young woman to dream that she is leading an idle existence, she will fall into bad habits, and is likely to marry a shiftless man.

Source: Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation • Author: Gustavus Hindman Miller

Interpretation 4 — Dream Explanations - Anonymous

If you dream of being idle, then this represents that you are stuck in gear and out of step with your natural rhythm and momentum. Alternatively, what might appear to be idleness, laziness, or procrastination might simply be that you are awaiting clarity.
Source: Strangest Dream Explanations • Author: Dream Explanations - Anonymous

Interpretation 5 — Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin

1. If the dreamer senses an individual just milling around, do­ing nothing, then it reflects on his/her own inaction or laziness.

2. One’s career or forward progress in some endeavor is at a standstill.

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