GAMBLING

If your unconscious depicted you as rolling a dice and hoping for a six, does this suggests that you feel as if your destiny is not in your hands but in the hands of fate, or that the direction your life will take is out of your control? Or are you dicing with death and taking a big risk in your life? Any dream in which you are gambling may be considered a warning that you are risking something for which you have worked in real life and that the odds are stacked against you. On the other hand, if your gamble came off in dreamland and you won a bet or money, perhaps your dreaming mind is encouraging you to be a little less cautious in waking life and take a chance on something as it has the potential to yield great reward. This does not have to be the lottery or a horse race; it could be an emotional investment. Winning a large amount of money on the lottery in dreamland is a common wish-fulfillment dream. The dream may also be warning you that if you hope to achieve your goals without any effort expended on your part, your chances of success are minimal. Freudians relate lottery or money dreams to anal preoccupation and the desire to break with miserliness.

Making any kind of wager or bet in your dream may stand for a gamble you are taking in waking life. Your dreaming mind is urging you to weigh up the odds and consider how much you are risking. The rhythmic gallop of the horses may symbolise sexual intercourse and if you are betting on a horse in your dream, this may reflect the emotional weight of success or failure as far as a relationship is concerned. Playing for high stakes at poker in your dream can imply that you are being too impressionable and emotionally insecure in your personal relationships, whilst to play poker with strangers indicates a lack of emotional connection in your life.

If you visit a fortune teller in your dream, this expresses concern about your future prospects; if you are a skeptic, such a dream may represent a crisis of faith in the powers of reason.

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This dream can have as many interpretations as there are ways to gamble, so you must try to correlate all the contributing factors and remember that the meaning will be modified by the relation of the sums involved to your own financial status; but as a general guide it is considered a dream of contrary; therefore, if you dreamed of winning a significant amount, the dream is warning you not to risk anything it would hurt you to lose.

On the other hand if your dream featured an unpleasant or distressing loss, it indicates that a very profitable opportunity will soon come your way; latch on to it See also Dice, Cards, etc.

(Betting, Casting lots, Games, Risk) Gambling in a dream denotes something groundless, distress, falsehood or an unattainable goal.

If one bets money or something with an adversary and wins his bet in a dream, it means that he will overcome him. Generally speaking, betting or gambling in a dream means quarrels, disputes, uptightness or agony in wakefulness.

(Also see Casting lots, Distress, Games, Uptight, Worries)