If you throw something precious out in your dream, you are not appreciating someone close to you or are taking them for granted.
If you are covered in garbage, you may be afraid of some form of humiliation or feel emotionally burdened in waking life.
The presence of dirt in your dream will also refer to something distasteful in your waking life. Bear in mind, though, that such a dream may not be completely negative, as we use manure or fertilizer to encourage growth. The allusion may therefore be to some action that is disagreeable but will yield results. Excrement or feces in dreams has a different meaning, indicating that you are purging yourself of something or someone in waking life that is poisonous to you. A dream of pollution also refers to something that is damaging to you—emotionally and physically—if you do not avoid or dispose of it. Dreams of splashing through a puddle or being covered with soot may refer to mild irritations in waking life. A drain disposes of excess water and if it appears in your dream, it may suggest that you are feeling drained emotionally. [1]
In a dump: Feeling literally “dumped on” by others or circumstances. Alternatively, being surrounded by scandal.
A desire for orderliness and organization that’s generated by having your sense of structure dismantled.
Tilings in your life of which you need to rid yourself.
Counsel from your subconscious that you figuratively need to socially, mentally, or physically clean up your act. What exactly needs to be thrown away so that you can grow and change?
A poor self-image that manifests in treating yourself like worthless garbage. Ecological concerns displaying themselves through your dream.
Garbage trucks represent personality types that tend to accumulate possessions to assert their security, instead of developing personal qualities.
Finding something valuable in: An alternative type of treasure dream (“one person’s trash is another’s treasure”). Also, an optimistic outlook.
Compost heaps represent the need to nurture and fertilize your ambitions.
A compost heap is also an emblem of taking a negative and finding a creative means of making it a positive. [2]
If you do not feel disgust toward it you will have economic gains; but if it is stinking, you will experience negative moments with people around you.
If a woman dreams of garbage it is a warning against a humiliating breakup with her partner. On other occasions, garbage symbolizes all the things that you want to eliminate because it prevents you from progress: your character traits, attitudes, fears, memories... On the other hand, it represents that you have been appointed to a position that has nothing to do with you.
Some beliefs say that this dream portends that your wildest dreams will come true. [3]
To be collecting garbage can indicate that we are making wrong assumptions.
2- Very often, garbage is the remains of food preparation. Often we are being alerted to what we need to do in order to remain healthv how we need to treat our bodies and how we need to create space in order to act correctly.
3- We may need to dispose of spiritual rubbish, and a dream about garbage can alert us that now is the time to do that. [4]
The garbage in your dream could also represent those things from your past, or in your life today which are not worth keeping, or that are literally rubbish.
If you dream of seeing many piles of garbage then it is an omen to change your ways before you turn all your lovely things into garbage.
If you are disposing of garbage then it foretells that you will have to clean up someone’s reputation and the mess he or she has made of their lives. [5]
A need to discard internal refuse that is burdensome. Similar to Abortion. Much has accumulated and must be emptied: emotional garbage and everyday garbage. Suffering because of involvement with the environment (and yourself). You are making an important discovery: it is in the “garbage” that we find the gold of meaning; in the inconspicuous and rejected lies the chance for self-knowledge. As C. G. Jung has stated, in accepting the rejected shadow, we take the first step to individuation. [7]
If we do not dispose of it in a timely manner, it builds up to a repulsive level and begins to decompose. Garbage then is a symbol of those things that no longer serve you and must be removed or recycled.
A buildup of garbage in a dream may indicate a buildup of things in your life that must be discarded and released. [8]
2. Landscape littered with garbage could indicate that one is very unhappy with one’s life. [11]
Something you consider distasteful or undesirable.
See also: Garbage Can, Garbage Dump, Garbage Disposal, Rotten, Smell, Rejection, Inferior, Trash Compactor [12]
For females this dream is ominous of disparagement and desertion by lovers. [15]
It is a good dream signifying transition and renewal. [18]
2. Evildoing;
3. Sin /unclean;
4. Unclean spirit;
1 Cor. 9:27; Mark; Isa. 66:24. [19]
being dumped on you: another who is cheap and trashy causes your burden.
can, picking up a: are being aided in your disposal of excess.
falling into: reassess your assumptions, fertilizer is decayed garbage.
over: honor your painful past emotions; each is a seed to a bright future.
surrounded by, being: rid yourself of deep-seated irritation, your own sordidness.
trash: separate out what is emotional garbage and what is recyclable.
truck: past actions are foisted back on you, to dispose of yourself. [23]
(See also: Sanitation, Sweeping the floor, Trash collector) [24]