Milk in Dreams: Symbolism of Instinct, Nature, and Wealth
(Instinct, Nature, Profits) In a dream, milk represents nature, instinct, or easy and lawful money. However, curdled milk in a dream represents unlawful money.
Symbolism of Milk in Dreams
If a man or a woman discovers that they are carrying milk in their breast in a dream, it signifies building one’s savings. For men, seeing milk flowing from their breast means wealth, prosperity, and new opportunities. For women, it symbolizes recovery from illness or the potential for motherhood.
Various Types of Milk and Their Meanings
- Woman’s milk: Recovering from illness.
- Cow’s, goat’s, or sheep’s milk: Lawful earnings and prosperity.
- Mare’s milk: Meeting with a ruler or receiving benefits from authority.
- Lioness’s milk: Conquering one’s enemy or opposing a ruler justly.
- Snake’s milk: Performing a deed pleasing to God or escaping a calamity.
- Fox’s milk: A passing illness followed by borrowing money.
Milk-Related Actions in Dreams
- Drinking milk: Represents different meanings based on the animal’s origin. Generally, it implies prosperity, but can also denote illness or challenges depending on the source.
- Milking an animal: Symbolizes craftiness, cunning, or prosperity. It can also represent marriage or the birth of a blessed child.
- Spilling milk: Suggests corruption, tyranny, or loss of wealth.
- Pouring milk down the drain: Indicates wasted opportunities, lost money, or longevity.
Curdled Milk and Unlawful Earnings
Curdled milk in a dream symbolizes distress and unlawful money. If the milk of an animal produces blood or venom instead, it signifies deviation from God’s path or tyranny.
See Also: Breast feeding, Colostrum, Dairyman, Milking
[1]Nurturing element, soothing emotions, coats stomach where ideas are digested. Milk is a symbol of leaning, knowledge, plenty, fertility and immortality. Milk as a symbol of immortality may be found in different cultures and literature, including India, Greek mythology, in Celtic writings, in Islam and Christianity. In his recordings, Ibn Omar wrote that Muhammad said “to dream of milk is to dream of learning or knowledge.” Dreaming of milk is a very positive message from your unconscious. It may suggest that you are in need of the deepest and most fundamental type of nourishment and that it is available to you. You unconscious may be suggesting that it is time for you to grow and to learn and that it is possible for you to do that at the current time.
The interpretation of dreaming about milk can also be looked at from a very different viewpoint. Milk can be a safe representation of semen and you may have unconscious (or conscious) desires for sexual relations. However, in my opinion is is unlikely that milk in dreams represents sexuality. Finally, milk is a lunar symbol and as such it is feminine. It suggests a renewal in spirit and thought, just like springtime is the renewal in nature.
[2]To dream of drinking milk, denotes abundant harvest to the farmer and pleasure in the home; for a traveler, it foretells a fortunate voyage. This is a very propitious dream for women.
To see milk in large quantities, signifies riches and health.
To dream of dealing in milk commercially, denotes great increase in fortune.
To give milk away, shows that you will be too benevolent for the good of your own fortune.
To spill milk, denotes that you will experience a slight loss and suffer temporary unhappiness at the hands of friends.
To dream of impure milk, denotes that you will be tormented with petty troubles.
To dream of sour milk, denotes that you will be disturbed over the distress of friends.
To dream of trying unsuccessfully to drink milk, signifies that you will be in danger of losing something of value or the friendship of a highly esteemed person.
To dream of hot milk, foretells a struggle, but the final winning of riches and desires.
To dream of bathing in milk, denotes pleasures and companionships of congenial friends.
See Also: Buttermilk.
[3]To dream of drinking milk implies prosperity, happiness, and good fortune. This is a positive dream for females.
If the milk is sour, then it indicates that a problem suffered by a close peer will cause you great stress.
If it is impure, then it implies that you will be facing minor issues and obstacles.
To see milk in large quantities represents future status and prosperity To dream of dealing in milk commercially also denotes a gain in wealth.
To give milk away reflects your compassionate and charitable nature.
To spill milk implies that a close peer will be the cause of a brief period of distress.
To dream of trying unsuccessfully to drink milk represents the chance of falling out of favor with someone you emulate. It may also mean that you will no longer have possession of some important item.
To dream of hot milk implies that you will achieve prosperity and status after minor hardships.
To dream of bathing in milk suggests that you have many close and supportive peers
[4]A beverage symbolizing the maternal nature and love (See Also: Cow).
If you are drinking the milk, this may represent the fulfillment of your inner child.
If poured on the skin, a dream that confronts self-images or prejudicial feelings.
For hundreds of years in Europe, milky-white skin was considered the height of beauty and comeliness (See Also: Color).
Spilled milk represents worrying over things which you cannot change (e.g., “crying over spilt milk”).
In Hindu, Egyptian, Japanese, and Greek civilizations, this substance also represented the primordial cosmic matter of creation itself. In a personal setting, this may mean the development of a more intuitive, inventive spirit that can “tune in” and transmit the frequency of universal truths through a specific medium.
Sour milk symbolizes negativity toward your mother, or toward becoming a mother. Warm milk is a positive omen, reflective of renewed peace and a sense of well-being.
[5]Cow’s milk featured in a dream predicts vigorous good health; goafs milk signifies business advancement; mother’s milk is one of the luckiest of omens and augurs enduring happiness through intelligent application of ability and adjustment to the realities of life.
Sour milk portends setbacks or difficulties created by your own foolish actions, and spilled milk indicates that your grasp is greater than your reach.
A dream of milking a cow or a goat promises prosperity through hard work.
To skim the cream off the milk forecasts social popularity, but spilled cream is a caution against new ventures—stick to known paths for the next few months.
See Also: Buttermilk, Cow, Goat.
[6]Symbol: Milk is a symbol of physical and spiritual nourishment.
Vision: If you’re looking at or drinking milk: congratulations, you have a clear conscience. You are at peace with yourself and the world, and are willing to help anybody who is in trouble at any time. Looking at a pitcher fidl of milk: expect a visit from a dear friend.
See Also: Butter, Cream, Cottage Cheese.
Depth Psychology: Dreaming about milk is a message: nurture the new aspects of your personality that you have just discovered. Milk is also a symbol for motherliness, empathy, and generosity. Milk provides life-giving energy and vitality.
[7](1) Milk may symbolize mother-love, or your nurturing as a child.
(2) It may symbolize nourishment for your psyche, enabling personal expansion.
(3) Drinking milk may symbolize sharing in divine life or consciousness; or awareness of the one source of all life, one life-force. Religious traditions speak of a fluid or drink that came from God - as sap in trees, blood, etc. - and was variously named: milk, ambrosia, honey / mead, nectar, etc. Psychologically, ‘God’Aiivine life’ may be experienced / understood as your true self, living in tune with your ‘destiny’ or fundamental psychic structure.
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[8]If you dream about drinking milk, true love is coming into your life. It may also imply your need to strengthen your ties and relationships with others.
To dream that you are choking on milk, indicates that you are being overprotected.
If you dreamed of sour milk, you will be tormented by small problems and annoyances.
To dream of warm or hot milk means you will have to struggle for quite a while before accomplishing your rise to fame and/or fortune.
To dream that you are bathing in milk is a positive omen, symbolizing a stable circle of loyal and caring friends.
[9]If you dream of seeing milk in large containers you will have honor and riches, if your dream is of buying and selling milk commercially, you will have great business success.
If you dream that you give your milk away, this denotes that you are too generous and could harm your own finances.
If you spill milk, your friends will disappoint you, and if the milk is not pure, you will suffer many small aggravations.
If you try to drink milk, and cannot swallow it, this denotes that you are in danger of losing the friendship of a person you have know for a long time.
[10]See Also: Cow. Food, security; a symbol for the original mother. Paradise is the land where milk and Honey flows. Something needs to be nourished with milk— with femininity. It might point to a tendency toward regression. Drinking milk means to increase knowledge and insight (alma mater, the nourishing mother is a name for the university attended). Sour milk means trouble and uncertainty. According to ancient Norse mythology, the cow is one of the oldest beings; it nursed the ancient giant Ymir.
[11]This is a symbol of abundance and fertility. To dream of milk could reflect your maternal instincts. In the same sense, it manifests the love of a mother and the nourishment of ideas. Perhaps the dream is showing you the spiritual needs of your interior.
If you dream that you give milk to others it represents the spiritual values or inspiration that you give to others around you.
If you drink milk, especially mother’s milk, this dream is an omen of good health.
[12]Dreams of milk represent feminine nurturing of the heart, mind, body, and soul. This dream is showing you that you have the sustenance to make it through life. This dream might also signify incomplete issues with your mother, perhaps feeling as though you did not get enough nurturing when you needed it. Consider the feeling tone of this dream to discern the significance.
See Also: Mother.
[13]Milk in general symbolises the Fitratul Islam and the Sunnah of Rasoolullah (Sallallaahu-alayhi-wasallam). Fitratual Islam means the natural religion of Islam while Sunnah means the actions of RAsoolullah (Sallallaahu-alayhi-wasallam). Thus, dirnking or possessing milk suggest that the observer will attain righteousness and he will remain stead fast on his Deen.
[14]This mammal-made drink is considered a fundamental food source, especially for infants and children. As a symbol, it is the ultimate source of nutrition and care from the feminine principle. There is a harkening to the maternal instincts with milk; hence the term “mother’s milk” to connote the very essence of that which will comfort and sustain us.
[15]Milk is the elixir of life from mother to child.
If the dreamer is receiving the milk, it can indicate that a deep inner nourishment is being received. Should the dreamer be giving the milk to one’s self or to another, much love and caring is being expressed in the dreamer’s life. Also, perhaps a caretaking profession is being sought.
[16]1. Mother.
2. Nature.
3. Need for emotional nourishment.
4. If one gives milk away, it indicates kindness.
5. If one gives milk away, it may mean one is foolishly giving his/her own resources to others.
6. If one spills milk, a mistake has been made.
7. If someone else spills milk, that person has made a mistake.
[17]Gives gender-specific: As a symbol associated with the great mother, in a woman’s dream milk can symbolize her own femininity, ability to nurture and her intuition. In a man’s dream, it is more likely to represent his need to be cosseted and cared for, though it can also signify the flow of ideas and concepts.
[18]To dream that you are drinking Milk is a fortunate sign; but it is unfortunate if you sell Milk in your dream.
To give Milk to some other person is a good omen for those in love.
It is also a very good sign to dream that you are Milking a cow, provided the animal is docile and quiet.
[19]Material aspects: Milk in a practical sense in dreams can represent the flow of creativity. It can also suggest a requirement for simplicity and a return to basic ideas and knowledge. Milk that has gone sour indicates there is a problem in the completion of a project.
[20]Milk nurtures young and old alike. Carrying a container of milk may mention that you are about to nurture someone close to you Spilled milk may comment on feelings of losing love or compassion from others. Or it may represent an honest mistake.
[21]To drink milk signifies abundance.
It is a fortunate sign for a pregnant mother.
To spill milk, foretells unhappiness for the dreamer. Sour milk, domestic problems. Hot milk, the dreamer must exert great effort to accumulate money.
[22]Psychological / emotional perspective: As a nourishing food milk represents nurturing and, therefore by association, the qualities of mothering. It may also suggest the faculty of intuition.
[23]Drinking milk in a dream is a portent of excellent health.
Selling milk is an omen of a comfortable income.
Bathing in milk is a forecast of pleasure in life.
[24]Human kindness; mother love; self-giving; sperm. Idioms: milk and water; milk of human kindness; milk somebody, cry over spilt milk.
[25]One of the theories of creation is that a celestial milk was stirred in order to create form. Milk in this context becomes a symbol for creation and chaos.
[26]Sustenance, nurturing; fulfillment, love, caring for developing parts of self. Milk of human kindness. Also, need for protein, strength.
[27]To drink it, joy; to sell it, a disappointment in love; to milk a cow, abundance, plenty (Gypsy).
[28]The nourishing word of god for the immature until they can digest meat; see “food” and “meat”
[29]As a basic food, milk will always signify simple nurturing and giving to oneself.
[30]To drink milk tn a dream and find that it is sour is an omen of disappointment.
[31]Symbolic of the word of God, 1 peter 2:2
[32]See Also: Food Fruit Trees vegetables metaphors
[33]1. Food for new believers; 1 Pet. 2:2.
[34]Self-giving, baby needs.
[35]See Also: Food
[36]To dream you drink milk is an extraordinary good sign; and to dream you see breasts of milk, signifies profit. To dream vou are carrying milk is a good sign, but if you fall and spill it, misfortunes will befall you, from which it will be difficult to extricate vourself.
[37]Milk in Dreams: Symbolism of Nurture, Prosperity, and Life’s Simplicitie
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Positive Symbols of Milk
- Cow, milking a: Peace, plenty, and pleasant journeys are coming.
- Getting lots of milk: Enjoy the simplicities of life; prosperity in love affairs.
- Drinking milk: Nurture the flowering of your personality.
- Large container full of milk: Unexpected fortune from a dear friend.
- Malted milk, making a: Your success is assured.
- Married woman having plenty of milk: Will be pregnant again.
- Others, giving milk to: You will lead a charitable life in a caretaking profession.
- Pail of milk, carrying full: Good news concerning a birth.
- Large amounts of milk: Abundant harvest and prosperity for the farmer.
Negative Symbols of Milk
- Empty udder: Your energy is insufficient for the successful completion of the project.
- Large quantities of milk, having: Possessions and loving support will be withheld from you.
- Old woman having milk: Big wealth will provide a safe journey for the traveler.
- Empty pail of milk: You will be tormented with trivial inequities, forgetting the whole picture.
- Milk souring: You have left your vigorous mind to wallow in minor disputes.
- Milk spilling: A slight tiff at home over your continual faultfinding.
Other Milk Symbols
- Donkey's milk: Deep inner nourishment has been reserved for your use only.
- Goat’s milk: Your naïve immaturity leads to childish behavior, embarrassing but fun.
- Selling milk: You will win by remaining independent of others’ persuasion.
- Woman selling milk: Large profits for highly esteemed businesspeople.
- Young girl milking a cow: Possessions are being withheld by a greedy, jealous brother.
See Also: Water, Curdled milk, Cream
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