To see whisky in bottles symbolizes your alertness, carefulness and protective nature.
If you are drinking alone, this signifies a selfishness that is driving friends away. To dream of drinking wine refers to festivity, celebration, and companionship. To dream that you are breaking wine bottles signifies overindulgence and lack of control. [1]
If you drink regularly, you need to look at the other details of your dream more carefully. However, if you drink rarely or never, then this dream could represent a need for you to escape from your daily stress and your desire to get quick relief.
The alcohol could be suggesting a need for healing and getting in balance. Your unconscious mind may be suggesting outrageous things in hopes that you get the message to “have fun, dream dreams, and get out of your own head!” Please keep in mind that the purpose of dreams is to raise our consciousness and to assist us in having better lives.
The message in the dream about alcohol is most likely not encouraging you to drink but it may represent a need to feel better or get better. [2]
1- When alcohol appears in a dream we may need or require a largely pleasurable experience or influence. We have available means of changing perception. We can afford to let go and go ‘with the flow’ of what is happening to us.
2- There is the recognition of the potential for emotional confusion out of which can come clarity.
When the normal constraints we put on ourselves in waking life arc removed, we can often reach our own truth.
The svmbol of alcohol can give us permission to do this.
3- Alcohol as ‘spirit’ is the conjunction of oppositcs, and a means of changing consciousness. [3]
2. One is engaging in some sort of unhealthful activity.
3. Hint that one should speak the truth on some issue.
4. If drinking, a deep-seated urge to escape the pummeling of life.
5. If drinking, guilt and alienation.
6. Watching someone drink to the point of inebriation signifies a negative feeling on the part of the dreamer toward the person.
7. Not drinking in a crowd of people who are drinking indicates one is feeling alienated.
8. Not drinking in a drinking crowd may indicate a feeling of superiority. [4]
The symbol may also be a challenge from the unconscious, demanding more clarity and deliberation. Is life lived in a fog.7 Are important problems being repressed.7 In another sense, this symbol may be pointing to positive social skills and communication, as well as the healing aspect of euphoria.
Astrology: Symbol of Neptune. [6]
A different form of addiction (such as to another substance, activity, habit, or way of thinking).
For more clues, consider your feelings before and while you were drinking in the dream.
See also: Drunk, Drug, Bar or Night Club [7]
If you dream of drinking alcohol in excess, however, this signifies feelings of insecurity and regrets. You worry that people will discover who you really are.
If you dream of hiding your drinking from someone, especially from a parent, it means you have been keeping a secret that is going to end up hurting you if you don’t let it out. Also see “Hangover” [8]
To be sober in a crowd of drunks indicates feelings of being left out, or being superior. [9]
Depth Psychology: Alcohol symbolizes secret desires.
The meaning will become clearer when you examine other symbols in the dream. Were you just a little tipsy or outright drunk in your dream? Did the alcohol make you feel less inhibited, more courageous, more self-confident? See Wine. [10]
A need to open up and verbalize without feeling intimidated. Also, symbol of transformation, as Jesus turned water into wine; in this sense the transformation of consciousness to receive higher spiritual awareness. [11]
As a chemical, it is a favorable omen, especially for those in the arts or sciences.
It is a purifying element, but is also a way to drunkenness. [15]
2. False anointing; Eph. 5:18 [17]