In waking life we pack our things when we’re heading off on a journey or moving house.
In dreams and in our subconscious, journeys often represent our journey through life – so making ready to travel in your dream can suggest you’re taking a new direction in your life, setting out on a new start.
The manner in which you’re packing may also be significant. For example, if you’re spending a lot of time in your dream considering where to pack your things, where they should go and in what order it could be that you need to carefully plan your next step in life.
However, if you find yourself flinging things into a suitcase with little care, throwing luggage hastily into a car, like you just want to get moving and it doesn’t really matter what you take with you, it could be suggesting that you should throw yourself at the new experiences in your life or the direction it’s taking, without worrying about the details.
Packing dreams can also represent a need for something new, where your subconscious is asking you to make a change in your life, try something new, be more adventurous or simply get the hell out of there.
You should be able to tell which by the general mood of the dream. Also, it may just be a passing feeling, we all feel like we’re in a rut sometimes, but if the packing dream become a recurring event you should take it more seriously.
Finally, you can discover clues about what baggage you should leave behind in your life from what you pack in your dream.