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Gold in dreams: what it can mean

  • Money
  • Love and relationships

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The short answer

Gold carries value, reward and sometimes greed. Many dreamers connect it with what they treasure, what they feel they have earned, or what they are afraid to lose.

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Three ways to read it

Psychology and research

Research

The continuity view reads valuable objects in dreams through the dreamer's own concerns about worth, security and reward. Finding money is also one of the pleasant typical themes people report in dream surveys. Ask what the gold was worth to you in the dream: a gift, a discovery, something stolen or something you had to guard.

Folk tradition

Tradition, not science

Tradition: American popular dream books, around 1900

Miller's 1901 dream dictionary read handling gold as a sign of success in what one undertakes, and losing gold as missed chances. It reflects one popular tradition of its time, reported here as history rather than a forecast.

Questions to ask yourself

  1. What do you treasure right now that is not money?
  2. Did the gold feel earned, given or taken?
  3. Is there something you are afraid of losing?

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Sources

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  1. G. William Domhoff (2001). A New Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams. Dreaming 11(1): 13-33.

    cited, not reproduced

    • Cited at: pp. 13-33 (dreams as simulations of personal concerns) (reference not yet checked)

    Dreams as embodied simulations of personal concerns (the continuity view). The backbone of our psychology lens.

  2. Tore A. Nielsen, Antonio L. Zadra, Valérie Simard, Sébastien Saucier, Philippe Stenstrom, Carlyle Smith, Don Kuiken (2003). The typical dreams of Canadian university students. Dreaming 13(4): 211-235.

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    • Cited at: typical dreams questionnaire, results (reference not yet checked)

    Survey of how many people report having had common dream themes (being chased, falling, teeth, flying, exams, nakedness and others) at least once.

  3. Gustavus Hindman Miller (1901). What's in a Dream (later reissued as Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted).

    public domain

    • Cited at: entry: Gold (reference not yet checked)

    An American popular dream dictionary. Its entries are written as omens ("foretells"); we only report how people once read a symbol, never as a forecast.