Dreams that feature plants in pots are often to do with the growth of either something new in your life or something existing that has recently begun to develop. The pots may also symbolize that you feel restricted in this endeavor or in life in general.
Here are the four most common meanings:
- You Are Working on Something New in Your Life
- You Are Facing Restrictions in Your Life
- You Need to Draw Your Attention Inward
- You Are Happy With the Little Things Around You
Dream interpretation is subjective, unscientific, and highly personal. The below information is some possible symbolic interpretations people have had – but there’s no evidence that your dream determines your future and no one can say exactly what the dream means. The ultimate interpretation is up to you!
Symbolism of Plants in Pots in Dreams
Dreams are highly personal. This is why recognizing where the focus of a dream lies is an important part of understanding their meaning. To help us through this, we will look at the symbolism of the elements in three different categories.
1. Focus on Plants
If you live in an apartment, a house without a garden, or just generally do not spend time with plants that are not potted, the pots in your dream may be a red herring, and the focus may be on the plants themselves.
In this case, your brain is merely manifesting an image of the plants in the way in which you are used to seeing them.
The most frequent interpretation of plants in dreams is that they symbolize something that is growing. This can be a material growth, but it can also be a more abstract growth, like that of a career, relationship, education, project, business, finances, and many more.
A further interpretation of this growth being symbolized by a plant is that this development is perceived as slow – perhaps too slow.
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2. Focus on Pots
The plants in the dream could also simply be a sort of framing device for the pots. If the focus of your dream of potted plants is more on the pots than the plants, then this could be symbolic of your home, either literally or abstractly.
With this kind of focus, the potted plants can represent your physical home and, by extension, your domestic life and duties, household chores, and the people you live with.
A deeper interpretation of the symbolism could indicate that the plants in pots represent your innermost self – not just the inside versus the outside, but the inside world of your mind and thoughts versus everything outside of it.
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3. Focus on Plants in Pots
The symbolism of plants in pots as a holistic image is the most complex. This imagery indicates growth but also has it constrained by an artificial barrier.
This symbolism is generally negative and may be brought about by feelings of being trapped. This can mean feeling trapped in life overall or alternatively being unhappy with the restrictions that you are facing in a specific part of your life, like a project or relationship.
A plant in a pot in a dream could simply be a symbol of something small and simple that brings you happiness.
If you spend a considerable amount of time with your pot plants at home and especially if you enjoy doing it, this much more positive symbolism could be the valid one in your case.
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Interpretations of Dreams of Plants in Pots
With the combination of the symbolism we have already learned about, we can interpret dreams of plants in pots in 4 ways that will broadly cover most situations.
1. You Are Working on Something New in Your Life
You have something new in your life. It is either something specific, like a new job or a new relationship, or something much grander, like a move to somewhere far away and the whole new life that comes with it.
The pot plant may also be showing you something not quite new but that has recently begun to grow or develop.
You may be feeling that this new part of your life is going too slowly, as many feel about their careers, or perhaps it is just something that naturally takes a long time to nurture and mature, like a relationship.
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2. You Are Facing Restrictions in Your Life
An expansion of the previous interpretation, the dream might have more negative connotations, and you may be feeling bound, trapped, or restricted, as a plant may feel when it begins to outgrow its pot.
This can be to do with this one new growing element in your life, or it could be a general feeling. In the case of the latter, it may be brought about by financial insecurities, feelings of stagnation in life, or stress about how limited you feel your future to be.
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3. You Need to Draw Your Attention Inward
The dream might also be telling you to refocus your attention closer to home.
Shift your focus from the wider world to your household, or even more extremely, from your outer world to the inner world of your thoughts and feelings.
Depending on the subtler content of the dream, this can be positive, negative, or even just a neutral manifestation of your existing habits if you happen to be a homebody anyway.
4. You Are Happy With the Little Things Around You
Sometimes dreams are not all that deep and are just telling you very simple things.
If the emotional tone of your dream was very relaxed and at peace, then your dream might just be an indication of your contentment with the little things in life, as an indoor gardener enjoys working with their potted plants.
Conclusion
Dreaming of plants in pots could mean many things, but we’ve looked at the symbolism of the elements involved and a couple of interpretations, so you are now ready to work out what your dream meant for you.
Dreams have many different possible interpretations. And in fact, the above interpretations may not even be the right ones for you! It’s really hard to actually tell what the dream means. And really, it may not mean anything – it could just be a random dream! If you want to know more about your dreams, you could talk to a dream interpreter, spiritual advisor, or even a therapist.
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