Market Dream Interpretation: Insights from 21 Unique Sources

The colorful and varied array of goods for sale in an open-air market represents the huge range of choices that are available to you in waking life and this kind of dream is most likely to appear at times of great change in your life, such as starting a new job or a new relationship.

If you hear the many cries of market sellers or street vendors, this may express your fears of losing direction in waking life. Dreams of being in a market suggest your ability to cope with the demands and social interactions of daily life. If, however, the atmosphere in the market is closed in and intense, this may suggest feelings of confusion.

Bear in mind that markets are also places of buying and selling, so they can give you an indication of how highly you value yourself and your talents, and whether you feel you have something you can sell or there is something you want to buy. Busy market dreams may simply suggest that you need to spend more time with other people. The exotic atmosphere of a dream bazaar or souk represents the desire to seek out new and exciting experiences, whilst haggling merchants can represent people in your life who are extremely demanding.

To dream that you are in a market, flea market or marketplace signifies frugality. It may also indicate your ability to cope successfully with everyday life and relations with other people. Alternatively the market may be representative of your career and what you have to offer. It is a place of buying and selling, and can therefore give some indication of the value you place on your skills and attributes, and whether you have something to sell or are buying. On the other hand, as markets are typically busy and bustling places, your dream may simply be suggesting that you need to get out more and interact with people. To see a barren market in your dream signifies lack of choice. To dream that you go to a fish market signifies pleasure and joy, but to see decayed and rotting fish at the fish market denotes anxiety. To dream of a grocery store or market suggests that you are brainstorming for new ideas or looking for the various choices that may be out there for you. The interpretation of your dream may depend on what you are shopping for.

See MONEY AND SHOPPING.

To dream that you shop in a market means that you have many resources that you do not take advantage of. You must value yourself more, since you enjoy great untapped potential. The dream can also have a deeper origin: the need to externalize your talent, your most elevated desires. But careful: the market offers the possibility of acquiring the essential and, very often, you leave with superfluous things that divert your interest and can increase your confusion. That which is sold in the market will clarify the theme of the dream. Antiques represent the past; fruits and vegetables show your ability to grow internally; cheap stuff tends to express that you underestimate your talents. (See LABYRINTH) According to popular superstition, this dream denotes frugality. For a young woman, it means changes.

Vision: If you are at the market: you are involved with people and nurture the contact you have with them, but make sure that people do not take advantage of you. Shopping at the market: delicate and uncertain situations ahead. Selling things at a market: business is unstable right now, or a change at work is ahead.

See Shopping.

Depth Psychology: The market is always a symbol of your positive attitude toward people and a good business sense. .Also, never measure your worth by what you own. Particularly in men’s dreams, the market may indicate strong sexual needs and becomes a code word for a place where men buy sexual pleasures.

See Businessman, Fair.

The market is a place where you can obtain many things you need and desire with an emphasis on daily living wares and especially food items. In this way, it is a symbol of the sustenance and self-care associated with feeding yourself and the principle of abundance as it relates to the bounty of the earth. In a dream, the market is the place in your own consciousness that represents what is available and what you are ready to receive in this arena. Such a dream will have this concept as an overall theme, and you must use the things that occur and the characters that appear in this setting to gauge your current relationship to these principles.

To dream that you are in a market implies that there is a void in your life that you are looking to fill. Perhaps you require guidance or satisfaction. Pay attention to exactly what you are purchasing. This market can also represent your practicality when it comes to financial matters.

To see a barren market in your dream denotes hard times and anguish. There is something missing in your life.

Dreaming about a market is often a dream about everyday life in the economic realm.

The exchanges that take place in relationships sometimes also have a market quality about them. Note that a dream market might be drawing on the meaning of a common idiom, such as “being in the market” for something, “cornering the market,” or the metaphorical meaning of a “cattle market.”

The interpretation of this dream depends on its details.

If the market was well-stocked and neat and you were shopping or there was business going on, the augury is of abundance and prosperity; but if the food (or merchandise) was in bad cimdition or of poor quality or if the place was empty or unattended, the portent is of hard times ahead due to overlooked opportunities.

To dream that you are in a Market, doing business or buying goods, is a fortunate sign and shows that your circumstances will be comfortable. But if you are idly looking on, then it is a warning of lost opportunities.

If the Market is empty or unattended, then expect difficulties and troubles.

To dream that you are in a market, denotes thrift and much activity in all occupations.

To see an empty market, indicates depression and gloom.

To see decayed vegetables or meat, denotes losses in business.

For a young woman, a market foretells pleasant changes.

Reality of everyday life; the push and shove, give and take of relating to people in general, but particularly the public’; the wide range of experience one meets in exposing oneself to more than one’s close family and friends.

To dream about being in a market suggests that you are need of nurturing. Some emotional or physical need is missing in your life.

If the market was empty and deserted, your need for fulfillment is especially keen.

1. Searching for things missing in one’s life.

2. Security in finding abundance of necessities.

3. If needed items are not available, sign of emptiness, despair and lack of hope.

Shopping around for new ways of seeing and doing. Everything needed is there, select what you want. Bringing into awareness new aspects of self.

See Shop, Store.

A market of any kind, except those of shameful import, is a good sign for those who plan an ocean trip.

To dream of buying food in a market is a presage of a new idea that will be profitable to you.

Symbolic of the world, business, and profit, Amos 8:5, Lk.11:43

See Grocery Store, Shopping, Stock Market, Retail Therapy.

Research items marketed and name of market

See Fair.

lucky numbers: 05-08-17-22-41-47

being in a: your worth is who you are, not what you own.

small: short-lived infirmity from imminent betrayal.

going to a fish: have a high degree of flexibility that wil lead to a prominent position.

gourmet: your delicate tastes are being overloaded.

meat: wil receive honors for keeping a fresh imagination.

idly looking through a: your open-mindedness al ows forming long-lasting friendships.

of an empty: feel emotional y inept—but wil soon fal in love.

purchases at a, making: nurture your recent acquaintance with an invitation to lunch.

selling something at a: the balance of trade is wobbly now, at best.