The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams

by Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
The significance of this dream varies according to the circumstances of the dreamer.

For a person in business cm* in a job, it signifies that hard, or harder, work will be necessary to attain what he wants.

For a professional person, it indicates that a further course of study or acquisition of higher qualifications would be beneficial to his or her aims.

If you don’t fit either of the foregoing categories, then the key to the meaning of the dream lies in the effort involved in the action; if the soil was soft and/or the digging easy, you are in for a happy period of easy living; if the digging was hard and slow going, you can expect to have to struggle for a while yet

Dream Symbols and Analysis

by DreamForth
To dream that you are digging suggests that you are expending too much effort. You may be attempting to get to the bottom of a situation that has caused you grief. You could also be concerned with self-discovery or your inner persona.

To dream that you dig a hole and discover something shiny suggests that there will be good luck coming your way.

To dream that you dig a hole and fill it with water signifies that regardless of your effort, you cannot get things to turn out the way you want. You should understand the concept of compromise.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
(Excavate) Digging the earth in a dream means profits equal to the measure of earth one piles-up if the dirt is dry. However, if the ground is wet in the dream, it means deceiving someone else in a business venture, whereby, he gains nothing from it but headache and exhaustion equal to the amount of earth he piles-up.

The digger’s plot also may backfire.

If a sick person or if someone in his household who is sick sees himself digging the earth in a dream, it could mean digging a grave.

If a business traveller sees himself digging the earth, it represents his travels and the dirt he gathers represent his profits. Digging a hole, a water well or irrigations and planing to water the plants through them in a dream means looking for a job to earn one’s livelihood and to bring its benefits to his family. Eating from the dirt one digs in his dream, means profits earned from deception. Finding oneself inside a hole in a dream means that one may divorce his wife.

If one sees himself outside a hole, looking at it in a dream, it means an argument with her which will end in reconciliation. Ifa sick person sees himselfcoming out of a hole in a dream, it means recovering from illness or being set free from prison.

If one sees himself digging the earth in a dream, it also means muddling in falsehood to earn nothing but wrath. Digging a cavity through a mountain in a dream represents a person who associates himself with a difficult but a beneficial person. Digging a well in a dream also represents a crafty and an artful deceiver.

A person digging the ground in a dream also represents a jailer, or veiling abominable actions.

(Also see Pickax, Construction worker)