Dream Meaning of Wanting

To want and to ask are close in dreams: asking is the act of turning a desire outward. In the Turkish dream tradition, dreaming that you ask someone for something is generally read as a good sign, but the meaning shifts with the thing requested and with the person you ask. The dream is taken as a mirror of your inner state, your humility, your ambitions, and the help you may need along the way.

Asking for a Specific Thing

If you dream of asking for money, the old interpreters say you will soon meet a person of a fiery, quarrelsome nature – a woman if you are a man, a man if you are a woman. If you ask for some ordinary object instead, the dream suggests that you have lost your direction in life and are in need of a wise word or a guiding hand. The particular item you request is thus the key: it tells whether the dream points to a clash of temperaments or to your own confusion.

Asking from Scholars and Judges

To ask a scholar or a judge for a gift is a sign that events will arise in which the knowledge of such people will be needed. Should you ask a learned person for something in a dream, you will reach what you desire through the approval of someone greater than yourself. The dream honors the seeker: it says that you are ready to learn and that your wish falls into place through the help of those who know more than you.

Asking from a Superior

When you ask something from someone above you in rank or station, the dream does not promise immediate success but tells that a situation will come about which makes your request necessary. You are not asked to bend your pride; rather, life will present the very circumstance that calls for your asking. It is an invitation to be honest about what you lack and to let the right moment make your need known.

A Rich Person Asking a Poor One

If a wealthy person dreams of asking something from a poor person, the dream carries a warning. The old commentaries say this rich person will face a bad end, even the fire of hell, because such a dream reverses the natural order of charity. It is a sign that worldly goods have hardened the heart, and the dreamer must remember that all wealth is a trust and that generosity alone keeps it from becoming a curse.

Receiving What You Asked For

To receive the thing you asked for in a dream is the most favorable sign. It means the wish will come true, that you will be provided with lawful earnings, and that a useful work or a good profit is on the way. For a single person, this dream is often read as a coming marriage. The reaching of the hand and the receiving of the object is the dream's way of showing you that the door you have wanted to open will indeed be opened.

Asking and Inquiring with Persistence

If in your dream you ask and question someone carefully, the dream points to your effort to follow a trail and to stay firm in your work. It also suggests that you are studying another person's words and behavior, measuring what they do before you decide to trust them. This kind of dream values patience: the one who asks properly, without rushing, is the one who will get the answer.

Humility, Study, and Rising Station

Some interpreters say that whoever sees himself asking someone for something becomes a student, because asking is itself an act of humility. Through this humility the dreamer's rank and reputation rise, and with God's permission he or she advances in learning and in academic pursuit. The request, then, is not a shameful begging but a sign of the health of the soul: it knows it needs to learn, and it dares to ask.

All in all, the dream of wanting and asking is rarely a bad omen. It urges you to know what you truly need, to turn to the right helpers, and to keep a humble heart while you work for what you desire. Whether the request is granted in the dream or not, the act of asking is itself the beginning of the answer.