Dream meaning Dreaming of famine

A famine in a dream is a season of hardship and rising need in a household, in a trade or among a people, and the way the dreamer meets it tells how it passes.

The key is Joseph: the king dreamed of seven fat cows eaten by seven lean ones, and seven green ears of grain beside seven dry, and Joseph read it as seven years of plenty followed by seven of hardship, told them to store the grain in its ears, and said that after them would come a year of relief, when people would have rain and press their fruit again.

So a famine dream is a call to prudence: store in the good season and spend with care. Being hungry in a famine is a need that presses, such as a debt, a lack of work or a household stretched thin; for a person of worship, hunger is also longing for good and a fast offered.

Finding food when others have none is provision that reaches the dreamer despite the hardship, and a duty to share it; sharing the last bread is charity that God multiplies. Hoarding while others starve is a warning against greed. A full granary in a hungry land is knowledge or wealth that will serve many, and being made its steward is a trust like Joseph's.

Crowds seeking bread are a hardship among people that asks generosity of those who can give. Rain falling on a famished land is mercy and the end of the hard season.