Stehlen
Etwas nehmen, was nicht frei gegeben wurde — und die Frage, warum.
Stealing in a dream is the dictionary's image of taking something that was not freely given. The dream often appears around situations in which you have, in fact, taken something — recognition, attention, time, a partner's energy — without quite acknowledging that you took it.
The dream is rarely accusatory in the moment. It is more often offering a chance to be honest about it on waking.
Where you often see it. Stealing something small in the dream. Stealing from a place where you usually pay. The dream uses stealing for taking what was not freely given — and the question of why.
What it is not. Stealing in a dream is not always literal. The dictionary often reads it as the dreamer taking what they felt they should already have.
Related in the dictionary. Read stealing with money, hands, and any scene where ownership was asserted without invitation.