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What does it mean to dream about envy?

A feeling of painful longing for what someone else has in a dream, often causing shame for the feeling itself.

What it might feel like

shame, bitterness, secret desire

When this dream tends to come

Often arrives when someone appears nearby who possesses what the dreamer desires but does not allow themselves to openly want. Maybe the object of this envy points directly to a desire you have long suppressed within yourself.

Questions worth sitting with

• Whom and what specifically did you envy in this dream?
• Do you allow yourself to openly want the same thing in waking life?
• What prevents you from moving toward this desire directly rather than through comparison with others?

Try today

Name directly the desire behind the envy, and think of one real step toward it — not through rivalry, but through your own action.

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