What Does Dreaming Of Drinking Alcohol Mean?

Ibn Sirin counts drunkenness as the tangling of mind and affairs; it is read as a season when words cross and decisions blur. In psychology drunkenness tells of a longing for control to slacken; the tension that cannot be carried by day is poured into a glass by night. The interpreters call here for care and measure rather than alarm; the loose end of the tangled matter must be caught, they say.

Turning down an offered drink is read in the books as keeping distance from a doubtful offer and as soundness of heart; Al-Nabulsi counts it the sign of the right choice. Pouring the glass away points to a craving reined in, and reaching for the drink then stopping to a harm seen at the last moment. In Ja'far al-Sadiq's classification refusing is counted the best direction of this dream.

Al-Nabulsi reads drinking in a crowded gathering as a tangled work entered in partnership; shared gain brings shared trouble, he all but says. Drinking alone points to a burden carried within and opened to no one, and drinking at home to a matter waiting unspoken inside the household. The sources look at the place's crowd and quiet; the same glass reads differently at a feast and in an empty room.

This dream is usually not about drink but about escape: the mind pours a tension it cannot carry by day into a glass by night. In the Jungian approach drink is the alluring face of the shadow; the ease a person forbids themselves returns as a glass.

Drinking and tasting nothing is the admission that what is sought is not there. Freud reads it as suppressed pleasure and the need to loosen finding its voice.