Ten Thousand Dream Dictionary

by Pamela Ball
1- How we interpret wool depends on whether the image we have is of lamb’s wool or of knitting wool (see Knitting). Lamb’s wool may stand for blurred thoughts and feelings.

We have not rcallv sorted our thoughts out.

2- Wool has from earliest times, represented warmth and protcctiveness. Nowadays it particularly represents gentleness and mothering.

3- Wool is symbolic of Spiritual Protection. ‘Pulling the wool’ over someone’s eyes, though generally accepted as devious, can also be a protective act. There may be things which the dreamer does not wish, or need, to sec spiritually at the present time.

The Big Dictionary of Dreams

by Martha Clarke
It symbolizes simplicity, peaceful happiness without ambition. Moreover, the presence of wool in dreams may also indicate a need for love or protection.

If you are the one to spin it, you must soon be willing to help someone who is sick or in trouble. Finally, if one of your friends gives you wool, is an invitation to become something more than friends. This friendship can bring great satisfaction in every way, but mainly will provide the tenderness you were looking for.

Islamic Dream Interpretation

by Ibn Seerin
Wearing a woolen garment in the winter in a dream means profits and benefits. Wearing it during the summertime represents strain, distress and adversities. Wearing a woolen garment in a dream also means lawful money and prosperity. Sleeping over a sheepskin in a dream means becoming rich from associating with a rich woman, or from a marriage to a rich woman. Burning wool in a dream means religious contempt, or loss of capital.

If a man of knowledge sees himself wearing a woolen garb in a dream, it means that he is leaning toward an ascetic life, or that he will become a caller to God’s path, teach people to love the eternal comfort of the hereafter and to despise the temporary pleasures of this world. Wearing a woolen cloak with nothing under it in a dream means receiving money from a noble and a well respected person.

A dog wearing sheepskin in a dream represents a lowly person who subsidizes his business through a well known and a respected person.

If one sees a lion wearing a sheepskin in a dream, the lion here represents a tyrant who confiscates people’s money and property. Wool in a dream also represents purity, clarity and asceticism, except if the wool is coarse or unsuitable to wear, then it means poverty or humiliation.

(Also see Spinning)