A desk connects to left-brain sensibilities and a need for organization and structure in your life.
What you were doing at the desk should be considered in your interpretation.
If there was a person in the dream associated with the desk, add the meaning you assign to the individual as a character aspect of your personality connected to the need to get more organized and approach a problem from a more practical angle. [1]
If the desk we are dreaming about is an old one, such as our old school desk or an antique one we perhaps should be returning to old values, habits or disciplines.
If it is a work or office desk we may need to consider the way in which we are carrying out our everyday life.
To dream of being at someone else’s desk could indicate a lack of confidence in our own abilities.
Daily ritual and discipline can be relevant spiritual practices in our everyday lives (See also: Altar). [2]
If your desk is overcrowded with papers and files, then your dream is telling you it is important for you to become more organized.
If there is nothing on your desk, then this dream represents that perhaps you are too rigid and organized and it’s time for you to take some creative risks.
See also: Business, Work, Processing Dreams. [3]
If you dream of opening or cleaning out an old-fashioned desk, you will meet new friends.
To dream of a cluttered or messy desk is a positive omen. You will soon bring a certain troubling situation to an orderly conclusion. [4]
A desire for, need for, or dislike of one of the activities just mentioned.
The idea of organizing or preparing in order to be more productive.
See also: Furniture, Working, Workplace, Business, Homework, Writing, Sitting [5]
An oak desk might mean that your ideas about work are solid and strong. Having a desk in the bedroom may comment that your concerns about work are inter- fenng with your intimate relationship or with your sleep. [6]
2. Possible disappointment or bad luck in business matters.
3. Self-importance or self-esteem (note condition of desk). [7]
If the desk is bare, you should look for new interests, new hobbies.
See also: Writing Desk. [8]
To see money on your desk, brings you unexpected extrication from private difficulties. [10]
If locked, then you may expect bad news; but if you are sitting at an open Desk, then all will go well. [11]
If the desk is a student’s desk it symbolizes a time of learning [12]
2. Learning;
3. Teaching. Matt. 9:9; (2-3) Deut. 6:7 [14]
accountant’s, an: overwork on scientific matters.
an open desk: keep mouth firmly closed for the duration.
at home: avoid fruitless discussions and hurried decisions.
closed: wil have emotional sorrow.
lawyer’s, a: advancement in own position.
others, several: friends wil solve a mystery for you.
working at a: unanticipated extrication from irksome family affairs. [20]