Furniture

To dream of furniture somewhat better than that you actually live with is a fortunate omen for your future contentment, but furniture which by your standards appeared very grand or elaborate signals a need to reevaluate your aims and perhaps trim your ambitions to fit your abilities.

To dream of a full bookcase predicts advancement through your own efforts, but an empty bookcase signifies setbacks through lack of diligence.

If your dream featured buying furniture, you must be prepared to adjust to a change which may not be entirely to your liking; selling furniture forecasts some minor financial problems.

See also under separate heading as Chair, Table, Couch, etc.

To dream that you are moving furniture, indicates that you are going out of your way to please others. Also, you may be changing your ways and trying to reevaluate your relationships/attitudes.

To see old or worn furniture in your dream, symbolizes outdated attitudes, former relationships, and/or old ways of thinking.

To dream about a big pile of furniture, suggests that you need to face your feelings about someone in your life.

If you were surrounded by furniture, and trying to find your way out of it, it suggests you are having some trouble sorting through your various relationships - friendships, family, romances - and figuring out how they all fit together in your life.

The same can be said for furniture.

The function of the object expresses the universal meanings associated with it. In a general sense, furniture is symbolic of your ability to express a particular desire, creative impulse, or structural function. Furniture in storage means that a change in how you are expressing yourself is at hand. Furniture that is old and battered may represent a need to update your ideas about how to express yourself. New furniture is symbolic of a new direction in some area of your waking life.