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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’ve never actually done this before so if it drags on please forgive me. It starts out with me in the back seat of a car, my step-dad driving and my mother in front passenger’s seat. We’re driving on an empty highway, to our left an endless field of flowers, and our right a drop-off cliff looking out over a vast ocean. Everything is bright, the entire sky is white, even the ocean seems white. We drive up to a small church, and I spot a lone willow tree in the corner, and in it’s shade is another car, but it’s empty. My mother gets out of the car, and pulls me out. I beg them not to leave, but she gets back in the car and they drive off. Slowly the door of the church opens, and this is a BIG door, as it opens the shadow of the church stretches towards me, and walking in the shadow is a faceless nun. Well, I don’t know if she was faceless, more like I couldn’t see her face because the sky was so bright. She stretches her hand out to me, and not knowing what else to do I take it and walk inside the church. The doors slam shut behind me and the church is pitch-black. Suddenly I’m nailed to a cross, with two other people. One to my left and the other to my right. Infront of us is the faceless nun and the shadow of a man, which I assumed was a priest, reading a book, also assuming was the Bible. I didnt understand what he was saying, but as he read a feeling passed over me. It’s hard to describe, but it was like misery, pain, sorrow, all these sad feelings start flowing into me. The doors to the church open again and I’m ripped from the cross and flung outside, then two more faceless figures step out of the car that was in the shade of the lone tree. I was confused because I didnt see them in the car before. It was an adult man and woman, they exuberated such a bright light I had to shield my eyes because it burned. They outstretched their hands to me and everything floods white light. Then I wake up, sweating and crying, and find praying, begging to not let whatever that was happen. That’s the only time I remember ever crying in my sleep.
John – What a dream this is!! I would love to help you explore it so you can experience it for yourself. But I will do my best to explain it.
The dream is like an initiation into a wider life, but one you have not prepared for. I honestly believe things are speeding up and we are being pushed toward a future we need to speed up to meet. It explains this a little more in http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-quickening/
The huge ocean on the right is what is called the ocean of Mind or Consciousness. In dreams is an area of experience you get to when you have cleared out most of the childhood traumas and terrors and fear of pain. On the left is the world. You parents are obviously an important influence in your life, because they – that influence – are driving you to this initiation.
Part of the initiation you face is to meet facelessness – losing your present sense of who you are. That may seem frightening, but it is a part of growth and you lose nothing. Then you aer crucified. Feeling the whole world of feelings, misery. Sorrow, is part of this. It is being enlarged, growing until you can allow more of your potential to emerge. To do this you need to say “YES” to Life in any way you can. But of course you could turn away from this opportunity.
Good journeying – Tony
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IDK – I don’t know either.
Tony
was driving a car.. one of those really old dumb cars lol and I was on a road that was big enough to be the 401.. but for some reason even though I was on the right side of the road cars kept fucking driving the wrong way and trying to hit me and I was supposed to follow my friends car. The car ran outta gas and i pulled it over and someone tried to kill me with a truck
Bert – I really believe this dream is saying – “Bert, stop going in the direction in life that you are. Give it up and look around for another way.”
Running out of gas is another sign you have n’t got the right fuel to go wher eyou are going. Everything is telling you you are going the wrong way – and then someone tried to kill you!!
Certainly not a good place to be.
Blessings – Tony
I dreamed I was in a car with two friends (and they are not even my best friends) , we don’t have a license but we were taking turns driving and one of my friends kept saying we were gonna be late for class.
And in the street, everithing was in ruins, and there was nobody there.
Freaky, rigth ? And it’s not even the first time i dreamed about it.
Ana Rita – I wonder why you surround yourself with an environment that doesn’t seem to have any future in it. And by environment I mean a mental one, as dream environments often show your mental state.
The driving seems to be something about the way you are swapping over the influences to take the lead or the peer pressure.
So perhaps you could try changing the scene if it keeps appearing. You can change the scene ad this can actually reflect on your life. You need to imagine being int he dream at look at this to see how http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/peer-dream-group/#carryforward
Tony
ummm could some one help to interpret this dream?
umm my boy friend said he had this dream(i copied the words from msn):
the place is a city
beautiful one.
but, the floor is water
so technically all day ur swimming
so I was swimming all over the place
looking for something
don’t know what
the u came along with a black swimsuit and asked what was i looking for?
and i said I don’t know
and u said OK I’ll help.
so we started to swim together
and at the end
u asked what were u looking for?
I said for u. and we hugged
after that i woke up :]
ummm what does it mean??
in my dream i was walking barefoot down the halls of my church carrying pink and yellow balloons and i walked past my classroom ((completely forgot it was mine)) so i went down to the end of the hallway, checked the mailbox that wasn’t mine anymore, walked back to the front of the classroom, walked in with the balloons and zucchini bread past everybody, got back to the back of the room where i was sitting with Beebs ((a guy friend from church)) and let go of the balloons. one of them got sucked up and back by the fan and popped – i tried to grab the string and pull it back but the ribbon snapped in half. turned around and Beebs was Christopher ((the guy i’m seeing)), but he was sitting a row back, mouthing across the room to Sarah Oliver ((now pregnant friend from high school)) when i asked him why he wasn’t sitting up by me he goes “don’t really feel like it. shut up.” so of course i got angry at him, left cuz he was still ignoring me and flirting with her. left thru the back door, checked my mailbox again, stuck my head in the door and said “Chris. keep your voice down” to which he replied “that’s very f*ing rude of you. way to interrupt the class.” “I can hear you all the way down the hall the mailboxes. shut up dude.” and left again to go to the kitchen. for some reason i go snowboarding instead and meet up with Katie, Sarah’s best friend who pushes me down the hill, then steps on my face with her skate. i went over to where Heather ((my sister)) was then think better of it and leave all together, while hiding along side the road because Leonardo DiCaprio is coming and we’re in the movie Shutter Island and i have to escape with a leprechaun.
Stephanie – You have one hell of an imagination. But seriously, there is a hint of pregnancy in your dream with the popped balloon and your pregnant friend.
But I have a feeling that all the strange images and events in your dream are hiding something. I believe you are fed up with the sort of relationships you have been involved in and want for something more. That is why your face got stepped on. I wonder what you think and feel about Katie, as obviously she represents an influence that can crush your sense of your own worth – your identity. So take time to seriously think about what it is you really want from life and please move toward it. Take hold of the hand of the leprechaun, it could bring you luck.
Tony
I had a dream that I was pregnant, but I was further along than what I thought I was. How I knew I was further along than what I thought I was, was because I could feel the baby move. It felt like the baby was swimming. I also had a dream a couple of weeks prior to the first one, that my 93 year old grandmother was pregnant. She told me that the doctor was unsure that her baby would be “normal” because of her age. What does those two dreams mean? I forgot to mention that I already have a four year old and a six month old. I am not wanting to be pregnant . And it is sort of impossible at the moment.
Hi Tracy – You are a mystery. As Life you are a mother, though of course you didn’t create the babies you gave birth to – but you took part in the wonderful process of creation and birth. And as a woman you still have the process of creation within you. The fact that you do not choose to have any more babies doesn’t mean you cannot give birth to another creative process. That is how dreams show you what you can now give birth too. So do not be opposed to it. Some women who fight their female creation tend to diminish themselves. What I mean is that your female organs of creation are the very foundation of you and your creativity as a woman. To hold it back means you will block it arising to another level. What will you give birth to next – artistic ability; writing; a new activity – let me know.
Tony
what does it mean when I dreamed that my sister was really alive and an adult but she died as a 6 month old infant before I was born
Joyce – The people who have explored life after dead say that such babies grow up in the after life. So it could easily be about you lost sister.
But you have to examine your own feelings and see whether your sister is representing a part of yourself that got hurt and died. If so give it a lot of love and encouragement – whatever it represents.
Tony
The most recent dream I had was about me dying. Not suddenly dying, but knowing that I was going to die. I got the news that I only had a couple more days to live from a doctor (from some disease, maybe liver failure?). Anyways, I am not sure what I did on the first couple of days of my final days (I can remember telling people about it), but what I remember most is my final night.
A while ago I went through a difficult break up. Since then I’ve had numerous relationships all seeming very dull to me, so I would move on to the next. Me and my ex even tried to get back together briefly while she was in a different state. I no longer grief about her (it’s been about 9 months since we last tried to get back together and almost 2 years since we had the big break up), although she still comes up in my mind on rare occasions. I love meeting new women to date, but i feel bad when i break up with them. I don’t see the relationship interesting me long term. I have even tried ending relationships very early because I don’t want to hurt the girls feelings later on.
My final night I entered the hospital and kind of prepared my self for my final night and jumped into the hospital bed. I didn’t feel fear or anything. I almost felt good that I was going to spend my last night with my friends. My expectation was that all of my friends were going to line up outside the room in the hall, perhaps with candles, and all come see me inside as a whole. However, there was someone else in there that I vaguely recognized (like an old girl friend). She let a bundle of balloons spring up and several other women came inside with balloons (which floated up- they were very vivid balloons) , similarly I vaguely recognized them. At first I broke down and started crying for maybe 30 seconds. I am not sure if it was from the realization that I was going to die, or from my true friends not being there. I believe it was the former, because I think I still felt like they were coming. However, I sprang out of the crying spell in not too long a time period, and told everyone to gather around. I did a kind of group hug with all the girls as I laid there in bed. Then we got someone to take a picture of all of us hugging as we faced the camera. Then I believe I woke up.
This dream felt very impacting, it woke me up at 2 am and had me thinking about before i fell back to sleep. I kind of have my own interpretation, but i wanted to compare it to yours in case i missed something, Any thoughts?
Zach – What an interesting dream.
Over the years I have collected many dreams of people who were sure they were dying. Very often they are like yours a practice run – a way of facing death, but also to see what is important to you. Having had many relationship you must have felt “what is life about”? Or, “What is really important?. And I believe the dream answers that in that you felt deep emotion when you friends gathered and you were facing death. If you could dive into that feeling and explore it I am sure you could find depths of insight and wisdom you were not previously aware of.
Tony
I keep dreaming about this guy i miss his name is John Griffin i miss talking to him & i am wondering do my dreams mean he’s gonna talk to me again?
Alex – In our dreams we usually ue another person to represent something important to us. Because our dream creator cannot use words as we do, after all dreams well up from deep within us below the ability to speak, and from at time when the human animal was without language – 20 million years ago. So we use images to express our feelings, needs and desires.
Have a look at this piece from the entry Characters or People in Dreams
Tony
I had a dream last night, it was the most horrific thing! I killed my baby in my dream! I am so terrified of the
Dream, I love my baby sooo much, and there is nothing I won’t do for him.
The day he was born was the beginning of my life, and I can’t understand why I
Would dream such a thing!!!! Please help me understand?!?!
Hi Tessa – Quite a horror of a dream – but fortunately one that is not prophetic. It is usually a very dramatic way of saying that you have killed a part of yourself. So it is saying that a very vulnerable part of you has been killed – your baby or child feelings have been hurt at some time.
So it suggests you have suppressed of killed feelings – just as one can kill your love for someone. That is how dreams rotary it.
Tony
i had this dream where i was in my home all alone and i heard a manly shreak/scream. i went through the side door outside where my gate was.i saw a shaddow at the end of the block and it looked like the shadow stretched from arougnd the corner. so i went to the end of the block and slowly peaked around the corner……there i saw standing there!?. it was my uncle and my dad was on the ground dead.i tried to run back to my house on the way i called the police. but its seemed like the ground was moving in reverse and the farther i ran the further my house became. but finally i got back to my home but before i left i locked the door.so i had to pull out my keys a unlock the door.i was so scared and anxious to open the door but every time i put a key to the lock something forced me to drop them and when i picked them up they were duplicated/doubled they were different sizes shapes and colors.i searched through the keys for hours trying not to look back down the block hoping and praying that shadow stayed in the same place but finally i got in the house but by then the police still hadnt showed up so i called again and again and again hoping they would come but they didnt.suddenly i head a loud bang on the door and i ran to my room locked the door pushed every thing in front of it then i ran to my closet locked the door and cuddled in the corner grabing anything i could to cover me hangers clothes shoes cover and more.finally i heard one last bang and it startled me so much that i woke up screaming and crying!!!!!….. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT IT MEANS IT MUST BE IMPORTANT BECAUSE I CANT GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD I’VE REMEMBERED THIS DREAM FOR MONTHS NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Niyah – Well you certainly have some bad dreams. But remember dreams are only your feelings and fears crowding around you as people and events. It seems you have run away and hidden from death/life. Death is a natural part of us and we cannot exist without it. The sun itself is dying and its death gives us life. Everything gives itself in that way, so we live on dead things – plants and animals – and life springs up again in new forms. So I would suggest you go back to the dream scene of your dead dad. That is something we all have to face, and unless we can find peace in meeting death you cannot live fully. You will always be running and hiding. Having met death myself, it is a beautiful thing. But of course we have to get through the scary images of death before we can find its beauty.
Tony
Here is my dream, its quite dark for someone my age so please bear with me. If anyone could help give meaning, that would be greatly appreciated. the complexity of this dream is quite confusing.
It starts with the end of another dream. In this dream, one i experience often, multiple people are trying to murder me. Finally, one with a screw driver catches up to me and my three siblings (in real life i have one, but he was not present in the dream). The murderer first kills the other three by slowly stabbing them in the heart, and then digs under a bolder to stuff their bodies. Im next, and though i can remember feeling the pain of the screwdriver near my heart, the next thing i remember is being in a firy pit, something that would look like a steryotypical version of hell, and then flying through the air with all my might, pushing through a layer to get to the steryotypical interpretation of heaven, with white clouds. I then black out. I wake up on the floor of a factory, with large glass abacus’s above and to the sides of me. There large pipes with orbs of engery, both blue and red with swirls of light, surrounding them and moving. I walk further, as i feel that there is someone that is introducing me to what they call heaven. 2 large scrools that reach the floor describe what these orbs are, but i am unable to read them because the person is hushing me along, seemingly suggesting “if this is heaven, you dont want to know what hell is” and making sure i dont disobey. Next i know im in a room with 4 large windows, but no walls. in this room, across to the other window, is a mad in his 20’s. Both of us are painting the windows. Not the panals, the actual glass part of the windows. Im painting it bright hot pink(bleh i hate pink) and i start at the top and work my way to the bottom, but as i get to the bottom the top part disapears and i need to paint it over again, even though it doesnt stay. i then look through the window at another room. This room has a group of 4 people, all diffrent ages, sitting on the floor surrounding a small table. This table should ne filled with arts and crafts material, but instead the people are just looking at the creations they made, which are childlike felt crafts. There is no evidence that they made them though, with no scraps anywhere. I attempt to talk to the man in the room with me, but he keeps saying the same thing, almost like a voicemail, saying “I cant waste my energy on you”. I find it odd and find myself stuck doing the mundane task until i hear him pst and see him reach for a grey plastic box strapped to his hip. He then throws me a grey plastic gun with plastic cushion of puple on the side. i can tell the gun shoots lazers, not bullets. i ask him why and he says “just take it” sternly. I then feel his hand around my arm and he grabs me to begin running. We make some sort of transition to another area, this area presumably hell. We run aross 4 tennis courts, with onld wrinkly men playing in their boxers. Playing is used lightly here, as the balls are on the side of the court and there merly swinging their rackets. The courts are overfun with weeds and the nets have fallen and sagged. Suddenly my companion trips over a shopping cart, and everyone stares. this draws attention and we begin to run faster. we run into a mens locker where i see a 40 something year olds butt completly naked. then, we run into something of a shopping mall, but theres no stores. the buildings made of concrete, as everything in hell presumably is, in contrast to the glass that heaven is made of, and we make our way downwards tot he bottom. as were doing this, we grab people who look importants coats. there coats are made of some sort of reptile with a high popped collar and a wrap around belt. the people dont seem fased by our robbery. We finally make it to the bottom, and the whole mall only seems to be 4 levels. There, we meet with 3 other people who i can tell are like us, and my companion begins to talk to draw attention. By this point people begin to look, and i can sense that the attempt is to take over hell itself. I wake up then and my dream almost falls away from my memory. I have many murder dreams, but the vivid nature of this dream has made me seek extra help to intemperate. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve never really done this before and my dreams to confusing to just pick out one aspect. So if ANYONE could interpret it, it would be really useful.
It starts out in a wizard of oz type place really colourful and imaginative, my fencing coach is there and we’re all in our fencing equipment. So I go to fence my first match and it turns out to be my crush, he act’s really cocky and arrogant because he’s good at it so we do our match and then the squad has a meeting and I complain I want a different partner and fall over. Then a witch comes along and turns my crushes hand into Lego and then it sort of changes entirely to a cartoon like version and there’s a bird of paradise and when I touch it, it disappears. Then I woke up. Seriously what an earth could that mean?
I was dreaming in make a new house . so what the mean of the dream please .
Hi Jahir – This suggests you are creatiung a new wasy of living your life.
A house nearly always refers to you, depicting your body and aspects of your personality. This becomes obvious if, having visited friend’s houses you judge their character by the condition of the house.
Tony