Dreams that feature alcohol can be interpreted in two ways. They could be a warning that you need to take it easy or they could be a suggestion that your life needs more stimulation and excitement. If, however, a drunk appeared in your dream or you got drunk and had a hangover, this may suggest that you have been overdoing it recently. It can also refer to the way you deal with difficult feelings by drowning them in drink. On the other hand, do you feel drunk with success and if you do, is your unconscious warning you to reign in your exuberance as it is unsettling to those around you? Don’t forget the Latin phrase ‘in vino veritas’ (wine reveals the truth) and pay attention to what you and other people say in your dream over a glass of wine or beer.
To see whisky in bottles symbolizes your alertness, carefulness and protective nature.
If you are drinking alone, this signifies a selfishness that is driving friends away. To dream of drinking wine refers to festivity, celebration, and companionship. To dream that you are breaking wine bottles signifies overindulgence and lack of control.
[1]Understanding the symbol of alcohol in your dreams depends on the relationship you have with it in daily life.
If you drink regularly, you need to look at the other details of your dream more carefully. However, if you drink rarely or never, then this dream could represent a need for you to escape from your daily stress and your desire to get quick relief.
The alcohol could be suggesting a need for healing and getting in balance. Your unconscious mind may be suggesting outrageous things in hopes that you get the message to “have fun, dream dreams, and get out of your own head!” Please keep in mind that the purpose of dreams is to raise our consciousness and to assist us in having better lives.
The message in the dream about alcohol is most likely not encouraging you to drink but it may represent a need to feel better or get better.
[2]See Also: Drunk, Intoxication, I‘Vine
1- When alcohol appears in a dream we may need or require a largely pleasurable experience or influence. We have available means of changing perception. We can afford to let go and go ‘with the flow’ of what is happening to us.
2- There is the recognition of the potential for emotional confusion out of which can come clarity.
When the normal constraints we put on ourselves in waking life arc removed, we can often reach our own truth.
The svmbol of alcohol can give us permission to do this.
3- Alcohol as ‘spirit’ is the conjunction of oppositcs, and a means of changing consciousness.
[3]1. One must cut down on his/her drinking.
2. One is engaging in some sort of unhealthful activity.
3. Hint that one should speak the truth on some issue.
4. If drinking, a deep-seated urge to escape the pummeling of life.
5. If drinking, guilt and alienation.
6. Watching someone drink to the point of inebriation signifies a negative feeling on the part of the dreamer toward the person.
7. Not drinking in a crowd of people who are drinking indicates one is feeling alienated.
8. Not drinking in a drinking crowd may indicate a feeling of superiority.
[4]The meaning of consuming an alcoholic beverage depends on certain other specific contents of the dream as well as on the individual’s associations with alcohol. Negatively, alcohol represents escapism, addiction, and self-destructive tendencies. More positively, alcohol may indicate simple socializing or the release of one’s inhibitions. Alcohol has also been utilized as a religious symbol, as in the “new wine” of the Christian tradition, and to indicate certain mystical states in Sufism.
[5]“Muddying the water,” lack of clarity, unscrupulousness, intoxication, emotionalizing, melodrama. It may be a concrete warning of too much alcohol consumption.
The symbol may also be a challenge from the unconscious, demanding more clarity and deliberation. Is life lived in a fog.7 Are important problems being repressed.7 In another sense, this symbol may be pointing to positive social skills and communication, as well as the healing aspect of euphoria.
Astrology: Symbol of Neptune.
[6]To dream that you are drinking alcohol suggests that you are seeking either pleasure or escape.
If you dream of drinking alcohol in excess, however, this signifies feelings of insecurity and regrets. You worry that people will discover who you really are.
If you dream of hiding your drinking from someone, especially from a parent, it means you have been keeping a secret that is going to end up hurting you if you don’t let it out. Also see “Hangover”
[7]To dream of drinking to intoxication is an inner need to escape reality or your life situation. Same is true to dream of doing drugs. This also indicates a feeling of alienation and quite possibly guilt. Watching someone else get drunk is ussually a negative expression of your inner feeling toward the person or personality trait exibited by the person who is drunk.
To be sober in a crowd of drunks indicates feelings of being left out, or being superior.
[8]Vision: Drinking a small amount of alcohol means you will have interesting ideas. Drinking alcohol in secret: honestly examine your hidden desires.
Depth Psychology: Alcohol symbolizes secret desires.
The meaning will become clearer when you examine other symbols in the dream. Were you just a little tipsy or outright drunk in your dream? Did the alcohol make you feel less inhibited, more courageous, more self-confident? See Wine.
[9]Any alcoholic substance has a numbing effect, dulls the mind and feelings. May suggest hypersensitivity; a need for relaxation, meditation and raising the energy field to maintain inner balance.
A need to open up and verbalize without feeling intimidated. Also, symbol of transformation, as Jesus turned water into wine; in this sense the transformation of consciousness to receive higher spiritual awareness.
[10]An influence which changes the way we feel, moving us towards negative or positive feelings; prelude to friendliness or intimacy, an allowing into our life of another influence we do not immediately feel is our own conscious will; in a religious sense the wine represents a life-changing influence.
[11]If you take it in moderation as a drink, it indicates success, but if taken to excess, beware of getting into a spot where you might have to make an embarrassing apology.
As a chemical, it is a favorable omen, especially for those in the arts or sciences.
See Also: Drink.
[12]Dreams of alcoholic beverages represent a desire for escape, freedom, diversion, and a peak experience. Perhaps this dream is revealing that you’ve been numbing your pain and that it is time to soberly deal with the facts of your life.
See Also: AA.
[13]Its figure represents the union of two opposite elements: water and fire. The vital force of both complements to one another and produces an explosive result.
It is a purifying element, but is also a way to drunkenness.
[14]If you dream of drinking alcohol it can symbolize a current or former addiction to alcohol, Prov. 20:1
[15](See Also: Beer, Intoxicants, Nonalcoholic wine)
[16]1. Intoxicant
2. False anointing; Eph. 5:18
[17]The intoxication of the world
[18]Altered state of reality
[19]See Also: Drinks/ Drinking.
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