Barley Dream Meaning
Dream interpretation
Seeing barley in a dream signifies spiritual awakening and a conscious effort to do good deeds. It suggests easy and sweet earnings. An exchange between barley and wheat may indicate the arrival of new opportunities in your life. This is a positive sign regarding your attitude towards work and an improvement in your financial situation.
Barley — Islamic interpretation
From Imam Muhammad Ibn Seerin's Dictionary of Dreams According to Islamic Inner Traditions — entry "Barley" (page 30).
Barley corns in their fields in a dream represent spiritual awakening and a conscious endeavor to do good. Seeing barley in a dream also denotes easy and sweet income. If one barters wheat for barley in a dream, it means that he will forget the Qur'an and pursue poetry. Buying or carrying a measure of barley in a dream means that one may conceive a son who will grow to be pious and a man of knowledge, though his life will be short. It is also said that barley in a dream represents money spent toward one's health and fitness. Buying barley from its distributor in a dream means receiving a great wealth or an inheritance, though one must pay its due alms tax and charities. Ifone sees himself planting barley in a dream, it means that he will engage in doing a good deed that will please God Almighty. Walking through barley fields in his dream means that one will be blessed with the opportunity to participate in a holy war. Farming barley fields in a dream represents people's deeds. If one plants barley in a dream, it means that he will prosper from his business or from governing, or that he will receive an endowment from someone in authority. Seeing barley in a dream also implies feelings or perceiving something good that is going to take place. (Also see Crop)
Note: Islamic dream interpretation depends on the dreamer's circumstances and state. This is a general guide drawn directly from the source book.
How to read this dream
Layer in your personal context
What does barley mean in your own life? Recent experiences and feelings sharpen the symbol's meaning for you specifically.
Remember the emotion in the dream
How did you feel when barley appeared? The emotion often points to the truest meaning of the dream.
Connect it to your current life
Look for events or situations in your waking life that involve barley or its themes — the dream is often a reflection of those.