Market
Markets in dreams often reflect the abundance or scarcity you're sensing in waking life—shelves full or bare, choices plentiful or dwindling. The emotional atmosphere matters most: was it bustling with possibility or hollow with absence, and what does that tension reveal about where you feel resourced or depleted right now?
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for market, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you are in a market, denotes thrift and much activity in all occupations.
To see an empty market, indicates depression and gloom.
To see decayed vegetables or meat, denotes losses in business.
For a young woman, a market foretells pleasant changes.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you are in a large market, where all kinds of meats and vegetables are sold, is a sign you will want money that it will be difficult and perhaps impossible to raise; it is a bad sign for tradesmen and others who have notes to pay.