Desert

A symbol of an unconscious desert wasteland, where thoughts and emotions are buried or lost; a dangerous place to venture alone. Alternatively it can be a symbol of grounding your energies. To dream of desert sand represents lost time and a symbol of the unconsciousness.

Traveling across a desert in a dream says that a long and tedious journey is inevitable. If the sunshine is present, your journey will be successful.

Symbolic of a cursed or spiritually dry area, Jer. 51:43. The desert can also symbolize a place of insolation for a season in someone's life

The environment portrayed in a dreamscape can personify the condition of your 'inner landscape.' If you dream of being in a desert, you may be feeling undernourished or unfulfilled. The barren landscape can be a message that coaches you to make changes that will lead to abundance and growth. A desert can also be associated with religious ideas as you explore your spirituality and how it might become more fulfilling or enrich your daily life. See also Landscape and Scenery.

Seeing a desert in a dream means escaping from difficulty to ease, or bidding farewell to adversities to meet with opportunities, or it could mean repenting from sin, reversing the course of one’s business from loss to profits, or it could mean recovering from an illness. If one sees himself poor and walking into a desert land or a ruin in a dream, it means his death. Walking through a barren land in a dream means engaging in a futile business or a benign affair. Walking in a plain in a dream means reaching ease in one’s life, receiving honor or engaging in good deeds depending on how far one walks in that plain during his dream. A desert in a dream represents joy and happiness, depending on how vast it seems and how green are its plants in one’s dream.