To dream of digging, denotes that you will never be in want, but life will be an uphill affair.
To dig a hole and find any glittering substance, denotes a favorable turn in fortune; but to dig and open up a vast area of hollow mist, you will be harrassed with real misfortunes and be filled with gloomy forebodings.
Water filling the hole that you dig, denotes that in spite of your most strenuous efforts things will not bend to your will.
Physical
Dirt represents fertility; you are
planting the
seeds of a new phase of growth. You need to clean out your body or
house or simply be more
grounded.
Emotional
You want to
bury,
hide, or deny something. You feel unclean or
guilty that you’ve been
acting in an unwholesome or devious way.
Spiritual
You are trying to understand yourself better, looking for root causes,
hidden secrets,
buried treasure, and basic motives. You are
reaching down into the subconscious to unearth answers, information, or talent.
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Digging in a dream may indicate a struggle to unearth one’s reputation or integrity, a search for something lost or buried, or an effort to bury some unpleasant aspect of the past. Any downward movement can also symbolize digging into the unconscious in an effort to understand oneself.
The significance of this dream varies according to the circumstances of the dreamer. For a person in business or in a job, it signifies that hard, or harder, work will be necessary to attain what he wants. For a professional person, it indicates that a further course of study or acquisition of higher qualifications would be beneficial to his or her aims.
If you don’t fit either of the foregoing categories, then the key to the meaning of the dream lies in the effort involved in the action: if the soil was soft and/or the digging easy, you are in for a happy period of easy living; if the digging was hard and slow going, you can expect to have to struggle for a while yet.
You are expressing a need or desire to get to the bottom of something. Anything that is under the surface of the ground relates to hidden consciousness – available to be known, but not until some exploration is undertaken. Such an image in a dream may indicate that there is something to be gained from looking below the surface.
To dream of digging suggests you are working hard to discover something. If you dig and discover treasure, you almost have the answer to your question.
If hard work that brings success is lucky, then a dream of digging is worth while.
A person who has this dream may be assured that his or her efforts will lead slowly but surely to a desired goal.