Mining
To dream of mining represents thoughts about a serious ongoing effort to find resources to use to maintain a situation. Scouting or prospecting for resources that can be used.
Negatively, mining may represent desperation or pressure to keep finding resources to use to maintain a situation. Stretching your limits to extract value, possibly from situations, people, or even yourself, in a way that feels draining, uncomfortable, or immoral. Being forced to search for resources under difficult circumstances. An ongoing effort to extract valuable resources that doesn't feel good. Pressure to find resources to maintain a situation that is unsustainable. Feelings about depleting or exhausting a resource.
Example: A man dreamed of going down a mineshaft at a scary speed to do a mining job. In waking life, he was financially broke and kept looking for personal property he could sell to stay financially stable. He had to keep selling collectible coins a lot sooner than he wanted to. In this case, the mining job may have reflected his feelings about the pressure to quickly find and liquidate valuable coin resources from his own stored collection in order to maintain his financial stability.
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