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Dream Dictionary
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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Newsflash – This site is now getting a so many comments each day that I will only be able to answer a selection of them. Think about posting your dream on the Discussion Forum. But please, please read Your Dreams and Understanding this Site. It will help enormously and so will stop me repeating myself endlessly
What does my dream mean? – How to explore your dream meanings:
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.
- 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.
- If you are writing in comments for a dream interpretation, please describe the dream as fully as you can, and if it is relevant add your age your life and situation.
- 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’.
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 Using the Dream Dictionary
What Is Offered In The Dictionary
Practical Techniques for Exploring 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 have had a reoccuring dream now for years though it has been less frequent as of lately. I am fishing which I do enjoy. There are fish to catch and they are nice sizes. I am standing on meduim size rocks and I cast my line to an area where I can see the large fish. The sky is dull and the water is murky and now swelling with large scary fish. The rocks are now smaller and the water is dark and churning with large fish that I now want to get away from but I am not close to shore and there is no one to help me. I am so frightened of slipping into the water. I wake up with the horrible dream feeling that is left with me for the day. I fear having this dream.
Brenda – The overcast sky shows how you are apprehensive when in the presence of this dream. But you need not be.
This dream has come again and again because it is part of your growth that you are frightened of. Like the previous dream where you couldn’t keep awake/aware of what was presenting itself to you.
The dark water is a symbol of the unconscious, and the fish are the wonders of things from the deeps of yourself that could nourish you. It looks scary because we are raised to be frightened of life entering our conscious personality. What I mean is that we think our conscious personality is IT, and we totally forget that we are all the time held and preserved by the spontaneous actions of life in us. Yet when a tiny spontaneous action arrives in our conscious mind or in our dreams we are afraid. See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/the-unconscious-2/ and also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/#Two Powers
It is natural for us to feel scared because our parents and our whole culture is terrified of letting Life into our lives. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
I am sorry to give so many things to read, but I know that almost nobody has been educated in what I am trying to communicate to you. It took me most of my life to learn and to experience it. Basically if you actually learn to face your fear of those fishes a whole new wonderful world will open to you. You can do this by imagining that you at first just dip your foot in the water, and as you become more confident get into the water fully – a bit at a time.
And do not forget that dreams are all your feelings and fears, as well as your wonder, clothed in images. Nothing can hurt you. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/
Tony
My dream started with me discussing something with faceless people whom I don’t know as a person but I got this feeling inside me that they are my friends. We were all talking about looking for a white flower. I don’t know what kind but the only thing I knew is that we only have little time left. And as we started searching for that flower, everything just kind of blurred like someone hit the fast forward button and I can’t identify the places I’m running to. The only thing I’m thinking about that time is to move fast and find that flower.
Suddenly everything went back to its normal pace and I found myself on a street near the school when I was in high school. I spotted a plant beside the pavement about a meter and a half tall and I slowly reached for the flower on top then plucked it.
Then the next thing I knew I’m looking at this guy in the middle sitting on a wooden chair. He was wrapped by a cloth used for lunatics and his eyes were also wrapped by the same material as that piece of cloth. Around him were hundreds of white flowers – the very same one that we’re looking for. And beyond those flowers that circled him were silhouettes of the crowd that gathered to watch. At the back was just plain black background. It’s as if there was a spotlight directed to him and all the watchers – including me – just blended with the darkness. Hanging around his neck was bronze pocket watch. Three-fourths of it shone brightly and that light followed the hand of the watch as it ticked closer to twelve.
At that point, I knew that he was going to die. And I can feel the discomfort not only from me but also from my friends. Then as the hand of the clock got closer and closer to twelve, the guy started to cry. Tears were flowing behind that cloth wrapped around his eyes and I started to feel my own tears building behind mine. It was depressing and I can feel the sense of hopelessness as I watch him weep. Then he directed his head towards me as if he can see me and said between sobs “No matter what happens we will always be together.”
That’s when I shot up on my bed and found myself actually crying. And while I cried, I felt like I just lost something or someone. I bawled for about two minutes then went straight back to sleep. This dream gave such a huge impact on me and I would be glad to know what i
i had a very disturbing dream that my white cat was backed over by a garbage truck and although she was bleeding badly i couldnt get any help for her
Ann – It is important to realise that every part of our dreams are a reflection of what goes on in us – usually unconsciously – perhaps parts of us that we find difficult to admit to.
For instance, if I suggested that at any time you could have changed what happened in the dream, what would you feel? After all a dream is only your wonderful imagination given full reign and a great full surround virtual reality to play with. So why would you want a garbage truck to injure your white cat? And why was it difficult to get help for it?
It seems you have a conflict or different ideas about something – your cat for instance. And what does your cat represent for you? Is it a fat cat white pampered cat that needs to be got rid of in the garbage? Or does it represent the pure white or your instincts that was threatened to be thrown away.
But there is another way of seeing this. The cat represents an innocent love that has been injured by being treated as rubbish, garbage, and you do not know what to do about it.
In any case you can heal the situation by holding the whole dream, the garbage truck, the cat and you, out to the highest in you in a meditation.
Tony
i have been having dreams about the death of my sons father for the past three days. Recently we have been rekindling our relationship but not reallly open to the public as yet. In my dream he dies by either natrual causes or accident and i could see my self at the funeral crying over and over and when i am home people are comming and paying respects and i cant help but keep wondering how my son and i would cope with him beiing gone.
Kim – It seems to me that you have some conflict about getting together again. You kill him off, then you are worried how you and your son would cope if he were gone.
I think you need a very frank conversation with your man, either in waking life or in dreams. You do this by imagining such a conversation, and then switching positions so you are now him, giving him a chance to answer with his point of view.
Tony
I had a dream that i was in a public place like a open sqaure where I saw a gothic girl dressed all black with two other guys. they were exchanging something, but I could not see what and she was looking at me like something was wrong,like she wanted me to help her or get her out of that situasion??? A few days later I had exactly the same dream. So last night I had another dream related to this girl, but it was myself,the gothic girl and a close male friend at one of my other friends home. We were in there living room and she force me to inject her with a stainless steel suringe and after it happened she started to laugh histerically at me and my friend was laughing too?? I have tried various sites but can’t find a good interpretation?? Can you please help??
Werner – The impression I get from your dream is that the girl in black is you in a dark mood, or even depressed slightly. It also suggests that you are being moved by things you are only barely aware of; thus the exchange.
Obviously the girl wanted you to help by being aware of what was happening to you. The injection could mean several things like feeling other people’s opinions or will forced on you and influencing one; internal influence of something exterior; social pressure to conform or be obedient; sexual intercourse, or influences taken in during sexual relationship.
That you did it to yourself suggest that you were influenced by other opinions or by your own unconscious urges. And the hysterical laughter often comes before crying – crying about something that you have deep and painful feelings about that you were unaware of before it broke through. Either that or else a great fear was felt and so the laughter was an attempt to release it. Please read and use http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-exploring-your-dreams/#TalkingAs to see if you can define the situation further.
Tony
I dreamed with my mother who has been dead since 2000 I dreamed that someone was calling my name asking me to open the door and everything was vibrating and out of focus with a strong force the door was opened towards me and the figure was my mom like a zombie with blood spot coming out of one of her eyes as if she was stabbed. She looked black and white when i looked around I was in her old house in the kitchen.
Can you please help me.
Thank you
Hi,
Last night I dreamed that I was in the pub with a girl I used to have a big crush on (still do a little bit), but nothin ghas happened between us, and I am in a relationship with someone else. Anyway our mutual friends were sat at a table and we were stood near the window being honest with each other about all sorts. I asked her for a kiss and she obliged. I was expecting a brilliant kisser, but her lips, although opened, they were not as open as I would have liked. The next bit of the dream, we were in the toilet cubicle, kissing passionately, nothing more, and listening to a conversation outside the cubicle about a production/play (we are both actors). The next bit of the dream, we were in a small room with fellow work colleagues, other people we didnt know and a woman who seemed to be fairly well know (although I didnt know her) discussing potential proojects. The girl I kissed responded to a comment from a guy we both knew re a production and that was the end of the dream. Help please..
Actress1 – It seems to be largely about the stimulus of your sexual impulse, which can be a fire that you light. But in the case of the dream it seems small time stuff – shown by the small room it took place in. It then shift to work and production ideas – will this lead anywhere?
Again it takes place in a small room, meaning you haven’t let yourself see your larger potential. And the fire you lit can become a wonderful creative act. The girl you kissed represent your sexual energy and your desire to connect with yourself.
Tony
Friday night l dreamt _
I was pregnant and having a baby ! currently going through a divorce, and no sex.
Last night l dreamt l hung myself from a ornate Victorian lamppost and l took my belt of my long black dress/coat to do this.
Also when l came round in hospital( did,nt die l had a bandage on my face where a dog had bitten me, apparently a dog did this as l fell to the floor after they had cut me down. !!
Amanda – Have you felt depressed lately – probably because of your divorce? Hanging can suggest awful repression of self expression, to the point of feeling dead or depressed. Perhaps feelings of life not worth living. To dream of being strangled, or of hanging oneself, signifies “oppression and distress”.
But you were pregnant in the dream also. That shows another side of you trying to be born – realised. So if you mange to come through the difficulties of divorce the dream suggests a new beginning without all the history of the past.
The dog is an instinctive response saying why are you injuring your self image, when you have a new life waiting for you.
Tony
Vanessa – Well you are certainly immersed in the Life fluid – the sea, where it all began. The sea is also the great ocean of awareness. Awareness of these processes are not easily accessible to your conscious mind, but are nevertheless constantly influencing you and what you do. It feels like nature’s memory, where all experience is stored. So in your dreams about the sea, you may be accessing some aspect of this immensity.
But the fish can be realisations you can reach or even, because you are immersed in the Life process, can indicate fertility.
Growing your rose – well it usually indicates love; the flowering of personal qualities, your soul or self; sometimes the vagina. The flowering of our ripeness to live, love and reproduce, and its passing. Because flowers are the beautiful sexual organs of the plant it often refers to our own flowering of our sexuality.
To grow your rose from the spiritual viewpoint often means not being possessive and in fact, as I said to someone else today, “He who clings to himself a joy, doth the winged life destroy. He who kisses as it flies, lives in eternity’s sunrise.”
Also you need to love living thins and be a shepherd or servant of Life.
Tony