Desk Dream Interpretation: Insights from 19 Unique Sources

When you are at a desk, it is a sure bet that you are doing work of some kind. In this way, a desk is a symbol of this consciousness. Work has different meaning for different people, so this symbol may be more or less literal for you if you are someone whose actual job involves sitting at a desk.

A desk connects to left-brain sensibilities and a need for organization and structure in your life.

What you were doing at the desk should be considered in your interpretation.

If there was a person in the dream associated with the desk, add the meaning you assign to the individual as a character aspect of your personality connected to the need to get more organized and approach a problem from a more practical angle.

See Table

If the desk we are dreaming about is an old one, such as our old school desk or an antique one we perhaps should be returning to old values, habits or disciplines.

If it is a work or office desk we may need to consider the way in which we are carrying out our everyday life.

To dream of being at someone else’s desk could indicate a lack of confidence in our own abilities.

Daily ritual and discipline can be relevant spiritual practices in our everyday lives (See Altar).

A dream in which there is a desk signifies discipline, authority, your dedication to your career and/or that you are processing data that took place at work.

If your desk is overcrowded with papers and files, then your dream is telling you it is important for you to become more organized.

If there is nothing on your desk, then this dream represents that perhaps you are too rigid and organized and it’s time for you to take some creative risks.

See Business, Work, Processing Dreams.

To dream of sitting at a desk forecasts a disappointment, either related to work, love or social affairs.

If you dream of opening or cleaning out an old-fashioned desk, you will meet new friends.

To dream of a cluttered or messy desk is a positive omen. You will soon bring a certain troubling situation to an orderly conclusion.

A desk as a piece of furniture comments that your ideas are at work and on work.

An oak desk might mean that your ideas about work are solid and strong. Having a desk in the bedroom may comment that your concerns about work are inter- fenng with your intimate relationship or with your sleep.

1. Emotions are hard at work on an aspect of self or personal­ity, or possibly a situation.

2. Possible disappointment or bad luck in business matters.

3. Self-importance or self-esteem (note condition of desk).

If the desk is cluttered, you need to reorganize things in your life and get a system of priorities.

If the desk is bare, you should look for new interests, new hobbies.

See Writing Desk.

If we work at a desk daily, dreaming about a desk can just be a reflection of our daily lives in the dream state. Otherwise, desks can represent work or established authority.

To be using a desk in a dream, denotes unforeseen ill luck will rise before you.

To see money on your desk, brings you unexpected extrication from private difficulties.

This dream depends upon whether the Desk is locked or open.

If locked, then you may expect bad news; but if you are sitting at an open Desk, then all will go well.

A symbol of authority or an official office within the body of Christ, 1 Cor. 12:28.

If the desk is a student’s desk it symbolizes a time of learning

A closed desk forecasts a disappointment; it could be in business but is more likely to be of a romantic or social charac-

1. Speaks of a business or work situation;

2. Learning;

3. Teaching. Matt. 9:9; (2-3) Deut. 6:7

Working at a desk in a dream presages irritating family concerns.

Problem you are working on; study, exploration, self- discovery.

Work; authority; discipline.

See altar, table

Paperwork

lucky numbers: 02-17-18-26-29-47

accountant’s, an: overwork on scientific matters.

an open desk: keep mouth firmly closed for the duration.

at home: avoid fruitless discussions and hurried decisions.

closed: wil have emotional sorrow.

lawyer’s, a: advancement in own position.

others, several: friends wil solve a mystery for you.

working at a: unanticipated extrication from irksome family affairs.