A pump moves water by steady effort, read as the work it takes to keep energy or feeling circulating. A broken pump points to motivation that has run dry.
When this appeared in your dream, what were you feeling?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.