The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
Due to their work producing honey, bees have symbolized values such as laboriousness and wealth since ancient Egypt. Bees in dreams are often a sign of prosperity.

If dreaming they are making honey or collecting pollen, chances are you will have material success in the short term. Networking and teamwork will be beneficial and profitable to you. Laborious bees in dreams could also be a reference to your current working pace; perhaps you are not getting satisfactory outcome for the time and energy invested. On the other hand, to see bees in a flower announces a new love will come into your life.

Dreaming of bees is considered a positive omen of health, strength, wealth, and prosperity. Usually, one single bee promises engagements and children; many, favorable business; if they are working, good hopes, and if they are swarming, abundant profits. However, not all dreams related to bees are positive.

If you dream that they sting you, you could be subject to libel; whereas, if you dream of killing a bee, you will be unable to avoid ruin. A widespread popular superstition recommends you never chase away the bees but rather leave the windows open so they come inside. This way, you will be safe from enemies.

The Complete Dream Book

by Gillian Holloway
To dream of bees is good and bed: good, if they sting not; but bod, if they sting the party dreaming, for then they signify enemies. And therefore to dream that bees fly about your ears, show» your being beset with many enemies; but il you beat them off without being stung by them, it is a sign of victory and of your overcoming them.

To dream of seeing bees, signifies profit to country people, and trouble to the rich; yet to dream that they make their honey in any part of a house or tenement, signifies to the occupier dignity, eloquence, and good success in business. But to dream you are stung by a bee signifies vexation and trouble.

To take bees signifies profit and gain.

To dream of bees is good to ploughmen, and to such as thereby get profit To others they signify trouble by reason of the noise they make; and wounds by reason of their sting, and sickness by reason of their honey and wax.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
In a dream, bees represent prosperity, or a dangerous adventure. Seeing a beehive and extracting honey from it in a dream means earning lawful money. Taking all the honey from the beehive and leaving nothing for the bees in a dream means being unjust.

If bees sit over one’s head in a dream, it means winning the presidency over people.

If bees sit in someone’s hands in a dream, they mean a good crop for a farmer, while for someone else, they means a fight. Bees in a dream also represent an army. Killing bees in a dream means obliterating one’s enemy. Bees in a dream also represent scholars, knowledge compilers, striving hard or collecting taxes. Bees in a dream also represent a bread winner who is a hard working person, stern and sometime dangerous, though he does bring some benefits to his companions.

A bee sting in a dream means harm driven by a group ofadversaries. Bees in a dream also mean taking a beating or falling sick. Bees in a dream also represent the army of believers, while locusts represent the army of disbelievers.

A bee in a dream also represents a seer.

(Also see Beehive)