The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
The bag represents the secrets and the most intimate psychological qualities that you have in life. For example, if it is full of junk it will manifest that you carry concerns. In this case, the problems are created by yourself. Instead, if it is full of food and valuables it will mean that you are incubating new ideas and knowledge.

Depending on what you do with the bag the dream’s meaning will vary. So, opening the bag and beginning to take out its content indicates the need to express your experiences or to reveal intimate secrets. But if you lose it, then it means that someone already knows about those secrets; and if someone steals it from you, then someone is trying to manipulate you. Similarly, the bag represents your responsibilities. Perhaps, you have taken on too many you had the chance to share them.

Oneiric superstition says that paper bags in dreams portend bad luck in business. Fabric bags, however, the heavier they are the greater the success that will come to you.

The Curious Dreamer’s Dream Dictionary

by Nancy Wagaman
A bag (such as a purse, backpack, or tote) can represent: Necessities, or your needs in your daily life.

The amount of effort it takes to maintain yourself, your lifestyle, or your daily requirements.

Things you “carry around with you,” such as emotional baggage, judgments, biases, or other things that weigh you down emotionally or mentally.

Your ability to accomplish things out in the world, or the essentials you rely on to do so, such as your identity and skills (consider the meanings of the individual items in the bag).

Your responsibilities (such as financial, self, or family).

Losing your bag can represent a feeling or fear of: neglecting a responsibility, “losing out” because you’re not paying attention, losing something tangible or intangible.

Someone stealing your bag can represent a feeling or fear of victimization that interferes with your ability to accomplish things in the world.

See Container, Suitcase, Wallet, Packing, Losing an Item, Stolen Item

Dreamers Dictionary

by Garuda
Vision: An empty bag indicates a low bank balance—and it will continue to be low for some time. Carrying a heavy bag: you have much work to do.

A full bag: you will receive some money. Losing a bag: something is not working out, but the chance for success was low from the beginning. Rummaging in a bag and finding unexpected things: your unconscious is making you aware of character traits that you didn’t know you had.

See Backpack.

Depth Psychology: The bag contains character traits that can hinder or support you and, therefore, take a close look at what is hiding in the bag (your unconscious).

If the content shocks you, don’t “throw away the bag”—those traits would only come back later to haunt vou.