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Online Dream Dictionary & Encyclopedia by Tony Crisp
You can start right here by entering a dream image and clicking the search symbol – or you can read some fuller information below about the dictionary and how best to use it
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It will help if you take time to read What we Need to Remember About Us
What does my dream mean? – How to explore your dream meanings:
It is important in reading the definitions of dream images to realise that not every possible meaning can be covered. So please see if you get the idea of what is being said and allow your own imagination/feelings to fill in the meaning.
There are several ways you can understand the meanings held in your dreams, and there are several levels. The first is an easily understood level, followed by greater depths:
- You can enter a key word in the search box above. The Dream Dictionary contains interpretations on almost any type of dream subject. So if you dreamt of a flying saucer landing in a field, and aliens getting out and taking a baby, a snake, and a pregnant dog back into the saucer, you could search separately for each of these subjects in the Dream Dictionary. Find the entry for flying saucer; then the entry for dog, baby, snake, pregnant, and so on. For each entry, find further related entries by looking under “Similar Articles” on the right hand side of the page. Then see Easy Dream Understanding
- Each entry gives the general meaning of the dream subject, just as an encyclopedia or dictionary does for a word. Several possible meanings are given. This is because as with our speech the position of the word – the context – gives it special meanings. So a hot dog would be quite different to a black dog, dog-end or dead dog. So when you read an entry which has several different meanings, sometimes with a ‘;’ between, it simply means any one of them could apply. So you need to think about the feelings in your dream, the context, the other imagery used. Please do not fall into the trap that one reviewer made of saying that the whole dictionary is about sex. Of course sex is one meaning among many others. So use your own sense of your dream as well as any definitions given.
- To really explore the meaning it is useful to use the Dream Dictionary as it is designed, rather than arrive at a ‘thought out’ interpretation. To see a working example of this see ‘Dream Interpretation Example One’. And if you really wish to explore your dreams, see Talking As and Being the Person or Thing
Below are links to the full explanation and introduction to the complete Dream Dictionary Ultimate. You will see that it is being enlarged and improved all the time.
Introduction to the Dream Dictionary Ultimate
Tony Crisp has been interested in the health of mind and body since his early teens. I began writing about these subjects in 1956. My fascination for what lay under the surface of the mind led me to personally explore the unconscious using dreams and other mental and physical disciplines. From 1972 till ‘94 I worked as a psychotherapist using an eclectic, Humanistic Psychology approach which included dream work and releasing the secrets the body holds. My books include Do You Dream; The Instant Dream Book; and Liberating The Body and many more. See My Books also Life’s Little Secrets
During those years I has worked as a dream columnist for The Daily Mail, and She Magazine. I was the regular dream interpreter for the London Broadcasting Company; I ran Teletext’s dream page on UK television’s Channel Four; and also for New Zealand Teletext and now run a web site giving dream help as well as many features on subjects connected with the human inner world.
Throughout more than five decades I have been involved in a personal search for the secrets of mind and spirit. In those years I have also taught thousands of people techniques of deep relaxation, meditation, and methods of self exploration using dreams. Wanting to dig deep I explored the use of dreams and taught individuals and groups of people how to use these visions of the night to discover and heal the deepest issues in themselves, and to touch the high ground of their spiritual awareness. I worked for twenty years as a psychotherapist using several approaches, one of which was a way of honouring the body as a doorway to the unconscious mind, the emotions and spiritual experience. See The LifeStream
During the fifty years of seeking the wild wondrous beasts of the mind and spirit I dared my own inner adventure. But I also travelled with other people as an ordinary person, not a therapist, sharing their experience of fear and wonder as they unveiled and set loose their fountain of perception. I have travelled countless dream pathways, traversed the timeless with those using awareness enhancing drugs, and wrestled with the vitality of the body as people mimed and shouted their deepest intuitions through movement, dance and voice. See Your Dreams and Understanding Them.
Acknowledgement to this Edition
The Next Step – Criticisms
Introduction to Using the Dream Dictionary
The Discovery of Dreams – Things We Need to Remember About Us
Gaining Insight Into Your Dreams
A Master Course in Exploring Your Dreams
Your dreams can become vortexes of power to transform your life, and to enhance your perceptions. There is no ‘wave a magic wand’ route to this. It will not happen because you read a great book, or look at a good dream dictionary. Those things might help, but the real magic lies in whether you can enter into your dream in the right way.
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I had a horrible dream last night… woke up crying. I remember dreaming I had two babies and I kept losing them and searching for them throughout the whole dream.the first part of the dream I was pregnant with one twin….through-out the whole dream I had two cuts on my wrist…very graphic…I could see them opening and closing…(muscles bones and all)Then all of a sudden in my dream…and I knew the father was my sons father in my current real life. Although no thoughts of my son or my son at all were in this dream. He showed up and he had a very unattractive girlfriend… I confessed how much I loved him and wanted to be a family with him and the babies…he agreed and we had sex. Right after he finished….He got up and was leaving me…I was screaming for him to come back and he just ignored me and abandoned me in the dream. I felt horrible and realized I had lost the baby again. so I began searching again. Then the next part I gave birth and my mother in my dream stole money from me and left me and my new baby. Then the scene switched to me having to move into a new apartment…with my two twin babies…alone. So I walked one of the twins into the new apartment/home and set the car seat carrier on the kitchen counter and went outside to get something…when I walked back in the house there was a Racoon blocking my view of my baby on the counter…when I scared the Racoon off the car seat I saw that the raccoon had chewed off pieces of my baby’s face and it was very graphic…I knew the baby was still alive at that sec…(in the dream) but I knew the baby died eventually…this is when I woke up crying…It was a horrible dream the left me feeling abandoned and so sad with loss and betrayal…When I woke up crying I wrote down my dream last night….and for some reason I just know I had to ask for a “native American” interpretation… I am wondering if this dream can be trying to tell me something about my current life and provide some possible guidance or instight… Im not sure if the people, situation or emotions in this dream are symbols for other meanings…I would really appreciate some insight …to put my mind to ease a little so I can take this negative/evil feeling left from this nightmare and use it to make positive results from it…Please help me…or giv me some ideas…I really would be greatful!!! Thank u very much -Jessica
tony i had a dream i’m curious about since i’ve looked up definitions but none really resonate for me this is the dream:
i saw the moon and it was being bombared by
meteors,then i saw a mushroom cloud like those from a nuclear bomb made of dust (on the moon),after that two giant rocks striked the moon,those rocks and the moon itself went towards the earth,they turned into giant tanks,everyone was recruited to fight against the tanks
i’d greatly appreciate any interpretation you might have as this dream has stayed with me due to it’s peculiarness,thank you
Hi Tony, I found your site searching dreams with snakes and read through your site. While I have a pretty good understanding of my dreams as well as having had several visionary type dreams and experiences in my life, I am currently undergoing a personal trauma/recovery experience in my life right now which my dreams are majorly expressing. I could use someone to talk with regarding these dreams I am having and this process. Please let me know if you would be interested in hearing my dreams via by email, I would’nt want to post on an online forum. I am an artist and a very spiritual person with an affinity to alchemy. Thanks, Sincerely..Melissa
I have more than one vivid dreams. I dont understand either one of them. The first dream I dreamt of having a beautiful boy. I had this dream for weeks then the next time I dreamed it was a beautiful baby girl. Could I be having twins?.. another dream I had I was in the doctor office. She was giving me a pelvic exam. She notice that my uterus was larger then it should be. She suggested that I could be carrying twins. she also ran test to make sure everything is ok. everythiing was ok until i went in the room to get my ultrasound. the doctor searched and searched but she couldn’t find my baby.. what does those dreams mean
I have had the same dream 8 times in less than 6 months. I am siting by the river very calm and relaxed, and an eagle flys overhead a few times and plucks a fish from the river and flys back over me and drops it to me, as it splashes in the water in front of me I wake up each time.
I was riding on the left side of the back seat with other unknown people in a burgundy car with a dent in the door. It was a pretty day and we pulled over so I could look at this yard. There were several smaller structures by the house. The house wasn’t for sale I just wanted to see it because the yard was pretty. we drove into the grass but not horizontally as we were pulling off the road. A passerby would think it was wrecked. I never shut my car door When I got out of the car and walked. The yard was lines with a plain chain link fence. The grass was neatly mowed on the outside and inside of the fence. There were trees to the left of me. They were beautiful. The house was built on the side of a cliff. There were many decks looking into the hills and area below. Big bay windows and a very cozy homey feel. It was a dark color house. The smaller structures were away from the house and they were elaborate storage areas. One was a wash house to do laundry. There were stairs inside the structure going to the room that held the washer and dryer. The stairs were on the right as the man who owned the house started to show me. He was a common short black man short. He had on blue jeans and a plaid shirt. He was friendly and kind, but irritated. The washer house was littered. It had stuff everywhere. Clothes dirt toys dolls papers. The stairs were narrow leading to the washer room and intimidating. The entire building was dim and musty. Not like the yard. It was beautiful outside but ancient inside. Outdated and depressing inside. We went into the house next. It was the same. Cluttered and outdated. The stairs which were in front of me were so narrow and they curved up far. There were dolls littering the stairwell making it difficult to walk up them. The man was leading me but I couldn’t breathe. We made it to the area of the stairs that I felt was half way. To the left I was beside the big bay window looking over the land and the valley. We turned a corner on the stairs and came to the kitchen on the left of me. It had an outdated white stove that was banged up. Black iron exposed where it had been dinged. There were toys clothes and dolls everywhere. It was dark in the kitchen. The floor was vinyl and dirty and torn up. There were no windows in the kitchen. I just had to go. I didn’t want to intrude on the man anymore. I thanked him and left abruptly. He never even had a chance to acknowledge it.
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My scary dream. I was walking out my front door with Shelby at night. He went across the street to look up at a very large owl sitting in a tree (this owl was almost bigger than the tree). I was standing underneath this short round and very leafy tree. I whistled or made a small noise and the next thing I know is that another large owl was next to me. He kept getting closer like he was going to attack but never did. He just kept staring at me. I fell to the ground and I tried screaming for Shelby but nothing came out. It was terrifying. I woke up shaking. Shelny is my soon to be husband.
The part of my dream I can’t get out of my head. Two cats (they weren’t mine) but they started fighting. I wanted to break up the fight but someone (can’t remember who) stopped me. One cat was screaming in pain and I wanted to save it. I remember looking back and the cat on top bit the throat out of the cat on the bottom. Blood spewed. Obviously I was extremely sad. What does this mean. It just goes along with my usual weird and scary dreams I have been having lately. Normally I can figure them out, but this…..I have no clue.
Heather – The best I can do with this dream is to feel it is about the awful jealousy that women sometimes feel that makes them vicious toward another woman. Either you have noted such feelings in yourself or have witnessed it in others. Try being the cat see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
Tony
I had a dream about a ‘goat-man’ trying to coerce me into being sexual I am male)…he was big, strong…very white hair…he also looked like the image of Uncle Sam (costume-like)…in place of his penis was a kind of hole where it was supposed to be…but it was like a de-horned cow (I have an agricultural background as a child)…I wondered if he was too old to have sex? or he cannot have an erection? Or did he have no penis? I had feeling of being overwhelmed and unable to get out of this situation. I was terrorized when I woke up.
Thank you
Royce – I think you must be forgetting that we have arisen from an animal background. You grew from a seed in your mother’s womb, and as it did so took you through the whole process of evolution, through the vegetative phase as cell division, then into the reptilian phase and up to the mammalian. Then you entered the time when you learned the amazing computer like program called language, up until then you were a little animal and you were living in the ‘unconscious’.
Many human children were raised by animals, and they never became what we call human with self consciousness. They died quite young, unable to adapt to their life with humans. Speech appears to be like a computer program which when loaded into the human brain changes the way the brain works.
So we do not simply exist as a human being unless we are taught the amazing program of speech and human thoughts and society. Many of us believe we are ourselves because we were born human. Not so. We are carefully fed programs and we are what we are by being taught it. We are programmed.
The goat man in your dream is a meeting with your inherited past, the partly human we all carry within us. See – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/brain-levels-and-dreams/#mammalbrain
You are terrified of it because you were probably raised believing you are wholly human and have never been taught that you owe your life to a long line of animals. Also it is scary when we begin to meet your whole self. If you make friends with the goat man he will no longer coerce you, but will become an active and helpful part of you. See – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/secrets-power-dreaming/
We all carry tendencies to be sexual in none condoned ways – they are just tendencies.
Tony
I had a dream that my right arm was missing between elbow and hand and my shoulder was black from chemo and radiation in my dream the drs said my insides were 60% eat up with cancer but i was fine with it and other than feeling run down i was okay the missing arm didnt even phase me any ideas
I dreamed my grandma had kids and they were around 2-4 and because she couldnt feed them or support them at all she put them to worlk. I didnt like that at all, in my dream i started to cry because it just hurt to much to see them work. Also because they were little. In my dream i offered to take care of them. Two nights after i dreamed my boyfriend told me i was pregnant and i was confused and didnt know how he knew before me. He said he just knew i was and he just look so confident that i was pregnant but i was still confused. Please help i dont know what it means !!
am intresting in you dreams
I dreamt I was nursing a baby girl and loving her so much