What Does Dreaming About a Mole Mean?

Psychologically, the mole is a creature of the dark underground — burrowing unseen beneath the surface, nearly blind, working away out of sight. So it most often touches the hidden, the unconscious, and working unseen beneath the surface: something working away out of sight, digging into the depths and the unconscious, or what lies hidden below the surface of awareness. The mole is the image of the unseen, underground, and hidden.

It carries several charges. As the hidden and the unconscious, the mole's underground world touches the unconscious, the buried, and what works away beneath the surface of your awareness. As digging deep, the mole's burrowing touches digging into the depths — into yourself, a problem, or the hidden (uncovering what's buried). As being 'in the dark' or blind, the mole's near-blindness touches being 'in the dark,' not seeing clearly, or blind to something right beneath you. As slow, persistent unseen work, the mole touches patient, persistent effort going on out of sight. As a hidden 'mole,' the term also touches a concealed insider, a secret, or something hidden working from within. Whether the mole digs, surfaces, works unseen, is blind, or is a hidden 'mole' usually mirrors the hidden and the unconscious, digging into the depths, being in the dark or blind to something, slow persistent unseen effort, and a concealed secret or insider.

A Freudian reading would attend to the mole as the creature of the underground and the unseen — burrowing in the dark beneath the surface, nearly blind, evoking the unconscious depths, the hidden working away below, and the burrowing into the buried. The mole can embody the unconscious and the buried, the digging into the depths, and the unseen working beneath the surface of awareness.

Its burrowing and its blindness carry the charge of the hidden depths and of not-seeing. What the mole evokes — the mystery of the underground, the digging into the buried, the blindness to what's beneath — tends to point at the dreamer's relationship to the unconscious and the hidden: the buried depths working away unseen, the digging into what is hidden, and the blindness (being 'in the dark') to what lies beneath the surface.

Scripture's mole appears among the creatures of dark and hidden places — and strikingly in the image of idols cast 'to the moles and to the bats' (to the creatures of darkness and hidden places), and the mole as a digger in the dark. The mole touches this theme of the dark, hidden, underground places, and the creatures that dwell unseen.

A mole dream, read in this light, can touch the hidden, the dark, the buried, or working unseen. A biblical sensibility might weigh the mole gently — a creature of the dark and hidden underground — perhaps a reminder that what is hidden in the dark is nonetheless known and seen by God ('there is nothing hid... that shall not be manifested'), and an invitation to bring what is buried or worked at in secret into the light, trusting that nothing is truly hidden from the One who sees in secret.

In Islamic sensibility the mole, a small creature of God's varied creation dwelling unseen underground, touches the wonder of creation and the theme of the hidden and the unseen — and the truth that nothing is hidden from God (al-Khabir, the All-Aware), who knows even what works away in the dark and the depths. The mole evokes the hidden and unseen, and the awareness that nothing is hidden from God.

A mole dream, in this frame, might point to the hidden and the unconscious, working unseen, being 'in the dark,' or a concealed matter. Held with humility, the mole can recall that nothing — however hidden, buried, or worked at in secret — is concealed from God the All-Aware, inviting honesty and an awareness that what works unseen is nonetheless known; an invitation to bring the hidden into the light and to act, even unseen, as one known to God.

In a Hindu frame the mole, burrowing unseen in the dark depths, touches the theme of the hidden and the unconscious depths, the digging into the buried (the hidden samskaras and contents below awareness), and being 'in the dark' (the darkness of unawareness, tamas, or not-seeing). The mole evokes the hidden depths and the unconscious, digging into the buried, and the darkness of unawareness.

A mole dream, in this frame, can point to the hidden and the unconscious, digging into the depths, being in the dark, or unseen work. The tradition's note attends to the hidden depths and the dark: the mole as an image of the hidden, buried depths worked away unseen, and the darkness of unawareness (being 'in the dark,' not seeing) — an invitation to bring light and awareness to what works hidden in the depths, to dig into and understand the buried, and to move from the darkness of unawareness toward clear seeing.