Barber Shop
To dream of a barber shop represents your wish to change your mindset or attitude. Wanting to be set straight whether it feels good or not. Wanting to feel better or be rid of negativity on your mind. Being ready for change and to move in a different direction.
Positively, a barber shop may represent wanting someone else to guide you when you're lost, give you insight into a problem, or give you an answer to something that puzzles you.
Example: A man dreamed of walking into a barber shop to find out that his sister's boyfriend wasn't there. In waking life heard his sister crying and in his attempt to get her to stop found out that her boyfriend was murdered. The barber shop reflected his dislike with thinking of his sister crying and wanted to change it by asking her what was wrong.
Shopping
To dream of shopping represents your consideration of ideas, choices, roles, or acceptable ways of thinking. Surveying your options. Exploring all possibilities before integrating ideas, attitudes, or roles into your way of living. Trying to discover what beliefs, choices, or habits suit you best. Consider choices for the next phase of your life.
Alternatively, shopping may reflect your attempt to convince yourself about what the best methods or options are to fulfill a need or solve a problem. You may be asking yourself what's best for you right now?
Negatively, shopping may reflect frustration with too many choices or feeling overwhelmed with a myriad of choices. Anxiety about making the right choice.
Shopping at discount stores may reflect options with less personal cost or that feel easier than other choices.
Shopping at expensive stores may reflect more "expensive", difficult, or riskier choices you are considering. Feeling that a choice may cost you too much for the rest of your life.
Example: A man dreamed of walking into a store to buy some clothing. In waking life he was considering whether or not marry someone was good idea.
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Barber
To dream of a barber may represent a person or situation in your life changes the way you think. Being set straight about an issue whether you like or not.
Negatively, a barber may reflect people or situations that coldly, bluntly, or insensitivity set you straight about your beliefs or questions.
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Barber's Pole
To dream of a barber's pole is a sign that you are contemplating a change in your life. It may also reflect a rude awakening or brutal honesty that you aren't ready for yet.
Butcher Shop
To dream of a butcher shop represents an option for coldness, brutality, or insensitivity that isn't personal about a role making tough decisions for other people to help them sustain strength and confidence by cutting out things that are unnecessary or making larger problems smaller. Thoughts or feelings about talking to someone in your life who doesn't have a problem dealing with facing harsh realities, making tough decisions, or cutting away excess and unnecessary elements from your life. The need to make tough decisions for other people (or made for you) that need to be decisive, practical, and unafraid of the consequences of your actions. Feelings about emotional detachment or the need to detach emotionally to make objective decisions. Consideration of the ethical and moral implications of tough impersonal decisions. Feelings about an authority figure (or being one) who makes tough impersonal decisions on behalf of others.
Negatively, dreaming about a butcher shop could represent feelings of being overwhelmed by harsh realities or the brutality of making tough decisions for other people in a manner that isn't personal. Feelings about someone else making tough or impersonal decisions for you when you don't want them to.
Example: A woman dreamed of being in a restaurant while involuntarily dating the serial killer Ted Bundy who took women into a back room that looked like a butcher shop to kill them. In waking life, her business only had 1 customer who was making professional cuts to his business expenses to manage his annual budget. In this case, the back of the restaurant feeling like a butcher shop may have reflected the cold, impersonal, calculated nature of the business expense cuts the customer was making to his own business which directly impacted her business.
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Coffee Shop
To dream of a coffee shop symbolizes the decision to get aquainted with something new or explore new ideas, habits, or situations. It may represent engaging in a relationship, a new experience, or contemplating various opportunities without taking immediate action. Coffee shops in dreams might also reflect feelings about reconnecting with people, old friends, or considering reconciliation. Open-ended offers to talk or get reacquainted. Engaging in intellectual or creative discussions. It may also indicate a need to take a break and recharge, or to approach a situation from a different perspective.
Negatively, dreaming of a coffee shop can represent open-ended opportunities to engage in discussions about new ideas, habits, or situations that you don't want to talk about. It can signify conversations you don't want to have, people you don't want to catch up with, or new ideas you don't want to consider.
Example: A man dreamed of seeing an old friend from his past whom he hadn't spoken to in over two decades sitting in front of a coffee shop. In waking life, this old friend wanted to speak to him about catching up to speak about a serious legal problem. In this case, the coffee shop may have reflected the dreamers feelings about an open-ended safe offer to get reacquainted.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of going to a coffee shop, but then leaving without buying any coffee. In waking life, she was having relationship stresses and didn't like the idea of trying to talk about the problem or trying to "make up." In this case, the coffee shop may have reflected her feelings about the opportunity for open communication and connection with her partner, but her reluctance to engage in the conversation or attempt to resolve the issue. The act of leaving the coffee shop without buying coffee might symbolize her avoidance of addressing the relationship problems or unwillingness to put in the effort to improve the situation.
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Shopping Bags
To dream of a shopping bags upscale stores represents your feelings about having made an important choice or decision. Feeling like a winner knowing you have acquired what you want in life.
Negatively, shopping bags from an upscale store may reflect irresponsible use of power or resources to achieve a goal that is unsustainable. Wasting your power or resources for short term enjoyment. Too much of a concern with having what you want all the time.
Too much talking about important goals and not enough action being taken.
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Shopping Cart
To dream of a shopping cart represents feeling empowered and in control of your life by having the ability to make decisions or "shop around" while you take action towards achieving your goals. Actively thinking about and exploring options. The intention to "shop around" for options towards a new experience. Gathering and considering different ideas. Focused or serious attitude towards goals.
Negatively, dreaming about a shopping cart may reflect wasting time considering options. Feeling burdened by too many choices. Difficulty making decisions. Feeling overwhelmed or bogged down by too many options. The fear of someone else having options that lets them move on quickly and easily without you.
To dream of an empty shopping cart may reflect goals you are serious about achieving, but haven't completely decided on. You're seriously looking, but unable to find exactly what you want. A lack of direction or purpose, or a sense of disappointment or unfulfillment.
To dream of a shopping cart that is left behind or abandoned represents giving up on a goal or not following through with plans. Giving up on "shopping around" for options.
To dream of a shopping cart overloaded represents feeling overwhelmed or bogged down by too many options or responsibilities. Overdoing considering options. Embarrassing yourself seeing too many options. Feelings about accepting too many options just make your life work at all.
To dream of a shopping cart that is unstable or unbalanced represents a sense of insecurity or instability in your life in relation to your choices and decisions. Feeling uncertain or having difficulty making decisions.
To dream of a shopping cart with obstacles in the way, being stuck, or running into other objects represents feeling blocked or hindered in your ability to make choices or move forward in a certain area of your life.
Example: A girl dreamed of seeing her ex-boyfriend pushing a shopping cart. In waking life, she had just broken up with him and knew that he was serious about looking for someone else. In this case, the shopping cart may have reflected the dreamer's feelings about her ex-boyfriend "shopping around" for a new relationship. The shopping cart may also reflect the dreamer's fear that the ex-boyfriend will move on quickly without her.
Example 2: A young man dreamed of being in a store with a shopping cart. In waking life, he was considering ideas for a second business to run from home. In this case, the shopping cart could symbolize the man's decision-making process for his second business venture. The shopping cart represents the idea that he is collecting and considering different options for his new business, just as he would collect and consider different items to purchase in a store. The fact that he is pushing the shopping cart around the store could indicate that he is actively thinking about and exploring his options.
Adult Sex Store
To dream of an adult sex store represents feelings about considering making a choice that feels good for you, but may be seem inappropriate or childish to others. Uncomfortable feelings about enjoying too much freedom. Embarrassment that other people think are a total idiot who doesn't take life seriously. Feeling that other people will think you are a "giant jerkoff" who wastes their time having fun.
Alternatively, an adult sex shop could reflect feelings about enjoying experimenting with your life in new and exciting ways that others might feels is risky.
Negatively, an adult sex shop may reflect feelings about choosing to give up on serious choices for your life to pursue happiness in ways others might find. Enjoying being a school dropout. Preferring to enjoy life as a simple person with no desire to conform to society's norms. Feeling good pretending or orchestrating a giant lie that might have serious consequences for your future. Fear of yourself preferring to choose to enjoy wasting your life in ways others think is stupid or
risky.
Example: A young girl dreamed of going into an adult sex ship for the very first time in her life and seeing all kinds of sex toys. In waking life she was considering dropping out of college to experiment with becoming an yoga instructor and felt that all her friends and family might think it's a childish idea to enjoy too much freedom when should should be preparing seriously for her future.
Cashier
To dream of a cashier represents awareness of consequences of your choice. Noticing the personal cost of your decision. What you have to face in life to get what you want.
To dream of being a cashier represents awareness of yourself setting conditions or ultimatums for someone else to get what they want. Making someone else do something or lose something in order to get what they want.
Mall
To dream of a mall represents your search for acceptable roles, choices, beliefs, and ideas. A time in which you are establishing your identity and making choices that will effect your sense of self. Being in mall symbolizes decisions, or preferences that make you who you are. A mall represents social settings, or social development where you are exploring options, or decisions about what you want or who you will become. It reflects the manner in which you go about getting what you want in life or choices that define who you are.
A dream of a mall can show up when you are deciding who you want to date, making changes to your lifestyle, or experiencing changes in your personality.
The stores in a mall symbolize states of mind with themes that are symbolic based on your feelings or perceptions of those stores. For example a store such as the GAP could symbolize a more proper or conservative lifestyle choice, where as a more urban clothing store may symbolize a more desirous personality choice.
Sales people in a mall represents aspects of your personality that are attempting to convince you of a choice, belief, or idea that you are considering.
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Stealing
To dream that you are stealing from someone else represents your contempt, disobedience, or disrespect for someone else. Taking advantage of someone else who has not shown you respect. Defying the rules when they have not worked in your favor. Restoring self-respect in situations where you are unrecognized or undervalued. Awareness of yourself being selfish. Wanting something you can't have or feel you don't deserve. Wanting something for nothing.
To dream of stealing and getting caught may reflect feelings about waking life situations where you have gotten into trouble or got caught doing something you know you weren't supposed to. Feelings about yourself being wild and reckless. Feeling guilty that you broke someone else's property.
To dream of being stolen from represents feelings of regret for a bad decision or that you've lost out on an opportunity. Being stolen from may also reflect feelings of being taken advantage of. Feeling someone isn't respecting you property or dignity. Feeling unrecognized or undervalued. Feeling that someone else's selfishness has gone to far. You may feel that someone has defied rules or boundaries you've made. Being stolen from might also reflect your feelings about a person that wants something from you for nothing. Feeling that you can't trust someone. Feeling that someone took you for granted or didn't respect you.
Alternatively, stealing in dreams may reflect waking life situations where stealing has occurred or where someone is accusing someone else of stealing.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing someone stealing. In waking life she felt a researcher violated her privacy by using her life story as an example in his work.
Example 2: A young woman dreamed of having her computer stolen. In waking life her sister ruined her computer after being told to never use it.
Example 3: A man dreamed of getting caught stealing. In waking life they had ruined their friend's property by mistake and feared being labeled by their friend as irresponsible.
Example 4: A woman dreamed of having her car stolen by a couple of teenagers. In waking life she felt robbed of her self-respect due to an embarrassing breakup.
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Store
To dream of a store represents ideas or choices we are considering. The choice or opportunity to think differently. Considering making a lifestyle choice. Some area of your life where you serious about doing something different. "Talking to yourself" about a potential change or new idea. You may be "shopping" for various choices before making a final decision. Recognizing that a change may be needed in your life and making an effort to pursue that change.
Negatively, dreaming about being in a store may reflect feelings about making a change in your life being mandatory. Believing a change is needed when it really isn't. Not liking yourself enough they way you are. Allowing yourself to be influenced in ways that may not being helpful or good for you.
To dream of a salesperson trying to convince you to make a purchase in a store may reflect your own attempts to weigh the benefits of a choice. Your attempt to convince yourself or "sell" yourself on a choice or belief. It may also reflect someone in your life trying to influence you to change.
Example: A man dreamed of walking into a clothing store. In waking life he was considering making big changes to his personality believing it would improve his life if he tried it.
Example 2: A man dreamed of walking into a store to buy a book from an expert and discovered that they first book he picked up was red and unsuitable. In waking life he was considering getting very serious about his studies of a personal hobby and realized that the first few books he looked at for the topic were written by incompetent people.
Example 3: A woman dreamed about her mother taking her to a store. In waking life he brother had moved out of her home and she was considering ideas on how to change the relationship to strengthen it.
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