If you are shopping for food, you need sustenance but if you are shopping for clothes, you need protection. How much you buy in your dream may indicate your ability to take advantage of opportunities.
Not finding the item you want or discovering that the store has sold out of it may express frustration at not getting what you want out of life. A much- reported shopping dream involves the panic at closing time. Not being able to buy all you want before the shops close suggests anxiety that life is too short to achieve all your ambitions. Shop windows are symbols of opportunities in waking life that may be out of reach. The image may evoke frustration or envy that you are missing out on the good things in life, but it can also remind you that you still have the choice to seek out more accessible and affordable items. [1]
It is a source of pain, pleasure, recreation, and, at times, “quality time” with family or friends. Depending on the details in the dream and its emotional background, dreaming about going shopping may have several different connotations. Generally, if shopping in your dream is not a source of great stress and confusion, it suggests that those things which you need are available to you. Your environment may have readily available emotional, psychological, spiritual or physical support. However, you may need to learn exactly where to look, how to select what you need, and when to make a wise investment. This dream calls upon you to know yourself. Before you can ask for or get what you need, you first need to accurately identify it. [2]
If you dream that you are lost in a shopping mall, you don’t know where to turn for support with a certain problem.
To dream that you are shopping for food and groceries symbolizes your hidden attempt to buy the attention of others. [3]
The nature of what you are shopping for and the sensations around this image in a dream will help clarify your interpretation. [4]
See also: Retail Therapy. [7]
cosmetics in a drugstore, for: the invitation is in the mail.
different articles, buying in a: trouble ahead in financial matters.
food staples, for: the beginning of security, the basis of your wealth.
going into a, with others: opinions must be accumulated because they do matter.
that does small business: love affairs are insecure if not continual y expanded.
having purchases delivered: the contract has not been signed.
mall, of a: good fortune fol ows efforts.
being at a: ruin of another’s business.
mannequin, fixing a, in a window: beware of being left standing while others party.
with no clothes on: financial gains.
operating a: success.
paying too much: are trying to impress lover, unsuccessful y.
sales, in: the sale price may indeed be the fair price.
store, buying things in a department: rapid advancement climbing the ladder to success. [13]