In the interpretation of dreams, Money is among the recurring images that traditional dream-books and modern depth psychology have alike tried to read. It is commonly interpreted as self-worth, value, power, security, and personal resources.
Common readings
Money in dreams is often read less as literal wealth than as a measure of self-worth, security, or the resources, inner and outer, the dreamer feels able to draw on.
The reading of dream symbols has a long documented history, from the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus in the second century to Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and the archetypal psychology of C. G. Jung. Such meanings are interpretive conventions of those traditions, offered here as ways the image has been understood rather than as fixed or established fact; in practice a symbol takes much of its sense from the individual dreamer and the setting of the dream.
What changes the reading
What the money does in the dream matters more than its presence. Finding it, losing it, counting it, being robbed of it, discovering it is counterfeit or trying to pay with money that will not be accepted are the standard variants, each read as a different statement about worth and security. Interpreters ask whose money it is and what it fails or succeeds in buying. Since money is also the plainest waking worry there is, the psychological traditions rule in ordinary financial anxiety before reading the image as anything subtler.