What does it mean to dream about drill?
A drill often points to boring through resistance or pressing hard at one fixed point, so notice whether it broke through or got stuck.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read the boring, penetrating tool as carrying a plain bodily and sexual overtone, the forceful drive into a fixed point. It can stand for an insistent wish to break through a barrier.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the drill as the focused effort to get beneath the surface, pressing toward something buried. Where it bores can show what you are determined to reach or expose.
Jungian concept (our summary).Modern
Continuity ties a drill to waking thoughts about pushing through obstacles, persistence, and pressure applied at one spot. A drill that jams often echoes a real effort that has met hard resistance.
Continuity hypothesis (our summary).Mythological
The boring through of a stubborn barrier appears in myth as the labour that pierces rock or wins a way where none seemed possible. To break through by sheer effort was a feat fit for a hero.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).