Dream Dictionary A–Z

An alphabetical index of all recurring dream symbols decoded on Dreamlore, side by side with depth psychology.

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👶 Dreaming of a Baby — The smallest dream symbol carries the largest question: what is being born? Every tra…
🚽 Dreaming of a Bathroom or Toilet — Among the most-searched dreams in the world and the least discussed, for obvious reas…
🐻 Dreaming of a Bear — For thousands of years across northern Eurasia the bear was too sacred to name aloud.…
🚗 Dreaming of a Car — No Babylonian ever dreamed of a sedan. But the ancients dreamed constantly of the thi…
🐄 Dreaming of a Cow — The most famous dream interpretation in history is about cows. Seven fat ones came up…
🏠 Dreaming of a House — Every interpreter who ever lived has agreed on one thing about the dream house: you a…
🔑 Dreaming of a Key — A key is never really about metal. It is about who is allowed through the door — whic…
🪞 Dreaming of a Mirror — For most of human history a mirror was a sheet of polished bronze or a bowl of still …
🐒 Dreaming of a Monkey — No animal divides the world's dream books like the monkey. Egypt made it the scribe o…
💍 Dreaming of a Wedding — No dream symbol swings harder between joy and dread. In half the world a dream weddin…
✈️ Dreaming of an Airplane — Airplanes symbolize higher perspectives, ambitious life projects, rapid transitions, …
🌍 Dreaming of an Earthquake — Most dream symbols disturb something in your life. The earthquake disturbs the thing …
🐘 Dreaming of an Elephant — One of the most celebrated dreams in world literature is an elephant dream — a white …
🛗 Dreaming of an Elevator — No ancient dream-book mentions elevators, because there weren't any — the safety elev…
💔 Dreaming of an Ex — The most-searched dream of the internet age has no entry in any ancient dream-book — …
📝 Dreaming of an Exam You Didn't Study For — The hall is silent, the paper is turned over, and you realise you never attended the …
🏃 Dreaming of Being Chased — The most common nightmare on earth. Ask any century, any continent, and someone was r…
⏰ Dreaming of Being Late — The platform empties, the doors close, your legs will not work. It is the signature a…
🧭 Dreaming of Being Lost — The street you have walked a thousand times turns into a street you have never seen. …
🫣 Dreaming of Being Naked in Public — The classroom, the office, the middle of the street — and suddenly, no clothes. It si…
🌱 Dreaming of Being Pregnant — Before Buddha was born, his mother dreamed of a white elephant. Before an empire was …
🐦 Dreaming of Birds — Before there were dream-books, there were birds. Humans read the sky's traffic for om…
🩸 Dreaming of Blood — No symbol carries more weight per drop. Blood has meant family, money, guilt and life…
🍞 Dreaming of Bread — The homeliest dream symbol is also the oldest paycheck. In Egypt wages were counted o…
🐈 Dreaming of Cats — No animal's reputation has swung harder: worshipped in Egypt, burned beside heretics …
😢 Dreaming of Crying — The dream feels like grief; the interpreters mostly heard relief. From Anatolian kitc…
🕯️ Dreaming of Death — Nobody wakes from this dream calm, and almost no interpreter in history agreed with t…
🐕 Dreaming of Dogs — The first animal we invited in has been guarding our thresholds ever since — temple d…
🌊 Dreaming of Drowning — The water closes over your head and you wake with your heart hammering. It is one of …
🕳️ Dreaming of Falling — The stomach drops, the ground rushes up, and you wake with a jolt older than language…
🔥 Dreaming of Fire — Fire is the only dream symbol humanity has both worshipped and fled. The hearth and t…
🐟 Dreaming of Fish — Silver, silent, and pulled from a world we cannot breathe in — the fish has meant ple…
🕊️ Dreaming of Flying — The best-loved dream in the world, and the one dreamers try hardest to return to. Fli…
👻 Dreaming of Ghosts — Not the face of someone you loved — that is another dr…

🪙 Dreaming of Gold — The one metal that never tarnishes has never had a simple meaning. Gold has been the …
💇 Dreaming of Hair Falling Out — The teeth-falling-out dream has a quieter sibling. Hair comes away in handfuls, in br…
🐎 Dreaming of Horses — Speed, war, wealth and rank in a single animal — for most of history the horse simply…
🗡️ Dreaming of Killing Someone — You wake shaken, half-afraid of yourself. Say this first and clearly: the dream does …
💋 Dreaming of Kissing Someone — Dream-books rarely blush, and they are strikingly unromantic about kisses: for most o…
🪲 Dreaming of Lice — Dreams about lice rarely indicate physical pests; they symbolize nagging micro-stress…
🦁 Dreaming of Lions — Four thousand years before the lion became a mascot, it was a king's mirror. To dream…
💰 Dreaming of Money — Everyone dreams of money, and almost no tradition believes the dream is about money. …
⛓️ Dreaming of Prison — The door that will not open, the room with no exit, the weight on the wrist. Prison d…
🌧️ Dreaming of Rain — For every civilisation that ate what it grew, rain was the difference between a year …
🐀 Dreaming of Rats and Mice — No animal has audited humanity longer. Rodents moved into our granaries the moment we…
🏫 Dreaming of School — You are forty-three, you have a mortgage, and you are standing in a corridor that sme…
👞 Dreaming of Shoes — Shoes in dreams symbolize your social identity, how you ground yourself in the world,…
🐍 Dreaming of Snakes — No dream symbol has been argued about longer. The snake has been read as enemy, heale…
❄️ Dreaming of Snow — Snow is the only weather that rewrites the landscape while you sleep. Interpreters ha…
🕷️ Dreaming of Spiders — The snake got forty centuries of commentary; the spider got footnotes. But the footno…
🪜 Dreaming of Stairs — Stairs are one of depth psychology's most prominent architectural archetypes, symboli…
⛈️ Dreaming of Storms — Storms in dreams depict brewing emotional conflicts, sudden life upheaval, and the ne…
🦷 Dreaming of Teeth Falling Out — The dream people search for more than any other, and the one folklore feared most. Te…
🌙 Dreaming of the Moon — The moon is this encyclopedia's own emblem, and it earned the place. It is the one th…
👮 Dreaming of the Police — The siren behind you, the knock at the door, the officer who says your name. You wake…
🌊 Dreaming of the Sea — Every other water in the dream books belongs to somebody — a well, a river, a cup. Th…
⚔️ Dreaming of War — Of all the great dream symbols, this is the one that has been most often real. For mo…
🌊 Dreaming of Water — Four thousand years of interpreters agree on almost nothing — except this: look at th…
🐺 Dreaming of Wolves — No dream animal splits the map like this one. West of the steppe the wolf is the thie…
🥀 Dreaming Your Partner Is Cheating — In recent years this dream has topped American search lists for dream meanings — ahea…