What Does It Mean to Dream About Teams?

To dream of a team represents feelings about co-operation or working together with others to achieve a common goal. Alternatively, dreaming about a team may reflect feelings of being helped along by someone or something that gives you advantage. Feelings about challenges being easier because you have access to a useful resource.

Negatively, dreaming of a team represents feelings about others people being losers, "suckers", or being unable to compete as strong as you.

To dream of being unhappy with a team may reflect feelings of being in unhappy, unproductive, or un-cooperative relationships. Feeling unable to get along with others. Feeling that other people are only out for themselves and don't really care about you as much as you are caring about them. A lack of team spirit in a relationship, partnership, or family setting. A desire for people to work together when nobody is choosing to. Alternatively, it may reflect feelings about having no leverage, advantages, or effective tools to approach your problems.

To dream of being picked last for a team may represent feelings of being unimportant or not respected by others. Feeling that other people's honest opinion of you is that you are loser or a burden. Feelings about yourself not being considered a winner or that you will hold others back. Feelings about people not wanting to work with you if they don't have to.

See our sports theme section for more on symbolism of sports teams.

Example: A man dreamed of being on a team at his work that was not comprised of people he would usually work with. In waking life he was fired from his job and felt that co-operating with friends, family, and colleagues to get employed again was stressful.

Example 2: A man dreamed of being on a winning team. In waking life he was filing a lot of legal forms against competing businesses that were cheating and felt he had a really strong advantage over his competition.