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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 AM REALLY WORRIED THIS WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE!!!!!
a few friends and myself were taken from our families daniel (best mate) laura (laura and daniel have a thing) brayden and phoboe (they are together) we were all taken to some weird army camps and we were forced to breed i guess we had to all get preggers and if we didnt have twins we had to abort laura got preggers from daniel and phoeboe to brayden i just got magically pregnant we had repopulate certain coutries and then move to other coutries we were forced to breed! and then i had a pig! as my child it was slaughted and i was allowed to keep the head and the tail for some reason i chose to wear the part of my pig-child as a dress (a bit like lady gagas meat suit) please interpret my dream
I don’t know if you can interpret or not here, but I will ask anyways. I was driving up a very twisty mountain road with no guard rails going higher and faster. (Really I am scared to death of heights) The car was a bit tipsy on one sharp turn. Then can’t remember if my hubby took over driving or what. Then we were in front of a beautiful mansion with a huge fountain in front, admiring it. No idea how or why but were inside talking to one of the men who lived there. I kept almost knocking over big beautiful glass vases, so we sat on the floor, and I kept moving them further away, then handed the one to my hubby to put on a table behind us. I told the man that I ran an estate sale service (which I do in real life, and am going to small claims court for, on the 14th of Nov.-lady I worked for sabotaged and breached contract during the sale I did for her), and that if he ever wanted, I would be more than happy to render my services to them. Then a second man walks in-He was SOOOOO beautiful, (kinda like Edward Sissorhands looking, but normal-or so I thought), and he sat down on the floor about 3 or 4 feet away from me. His partner explained what I did, and seemed excited to tell him, so I elaborated more. As I was talking the beautiful man on the floor’s face kept changing. I thought I was seeing things. First it was his eyes. When he closed them, it looked sort of whitish, then as if he had eyes there, when they were closed. I was mesmerized. Then the shape of his head kind of changed, sometimes into what I want to say was like human, but with swiss cheese holes on the top right side (as I am looking at him), but then it would all change right back. I swore I was just seeing things, but I couldn’t take my eyes off of him, because he was sooooo beautiful. I told him that too, I think. Then he somehow asked me, or offered me a drink, but it wasn’t a drink; it was like candle wax. It was blue, and I cannot remember if I dripped it down my mouth, or if I drank it, but it hardened in my throat and stomach, and the man was pulling it out whole. Like on and up my through my throat in one piece. He was still beautiful. I could not even express disgust. My husband was not invited to drink, or chose not to; unsure which, but I didn’t even care. I assumed upon waking up, that the beautiful man was Satan, because nobody is that beautiful, and can have a shape shifting face with kinda crazy hair. I don’t know, could be wrong, hope it turns out to be good and not bad. Thanks for any input. Not sure where to find the answer for this, if there is one, but you can definitely email me if you want. Thank you so much.
Hello, I wasn’t sure where to place this comment and I’ve been trying to find an email link or something, but anyways I had this dream about me and a girl my age in a dark anicent crypt and we were fighting/battling giant spiders and looking for something, once we were near done with the searching of the something she put hints in wanting to have sex and we ran through the cave/crypt looking for a place to have sex, apon finding the right spot we ran into a large spider than the rest and i found myself holding a buther knife and I killed the spider, afterward a spectre or ghost appered and I found myself standing with the girl in a masion study, and then I woke, from that I was hoping that you could help me to understand this dream its the thrid time this week and so I thought since it happened more than once it is important.
thanks in advance
John
John – Your dream has some classic symbols that I will try to explain.
The dark ancient crypt shows that you have found a way into your unconscious. Well, not quite as you have only found images or symbols of it. To go any further you would need to break through the images of your dream and enter and actual experience. To do that you would meet yourself very fully.
You are with a girl – your female half – because in our inner world, of which dreams are a mirror, you are both male and female. To become a whole person you need to enter the girl fully and marry her – i.e. unite with her. But there are feelings in the way. You have not fully become independent of the influence of your mother. The female side of o you will act as your guide in the inner world. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/individuation/ also http://dreamhawk.com/relationship-sex/beware-of-love/
The fact that you killed the spider shows you have taken a big step toward independence. The ghost is probably an old trauma or experience that is still ‘haunting’ you. At some time you will need to meet it and merge with it to fully recover what it hides. The study suggests the need to study your inner life of dreams. To do this I would suggest reading http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/ – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/ – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
Tony
Well, Im unsure about this but I want to give it a try to see if I can get this dream sorted out. So here goes. Ever since I was little, as far back as I can remember right before I got really ill and still to this day before I get ill I have this dream. Now I can’t remember all of it because as soon as I go to describe the later part of it the memory of it just goes ‘puff’ and its gone no matter how hard I try, but here is the bit Ican remember.
I’m in this room thats white all round, there are doors everywhere I face and all I can do is sit there and cry, in the middle of the room. every time I go to open one of the doors I get this terrible feeling and when I open the door its nothing but black, cold and silent. As soon as this happens I get taken right back to the middle of the room and the top of the room goes black, before giant black bricks are dropped over me, but when they touch me all they do is send me into a crying fit and make my skin feel like I have ants or spiders or something, I’m not sure what, running over my whole body like pins and needles but moving. This happens a number of times before I get the right door and I’m let out, but I end up in a dark wood kind of area with people I dont know around me and the same thing happens with the black bricks when I look at them.
When I wake up after this dream I often feel the tingling feeling for a while as well.
Hannah – This has all the signs of a trauma you must have experienced when young. Unfortunately we usually forget the actual feelings involved. But in your dream you are remembering part of them. Please read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/lifes-little-secrets/
It might have been during a time you were in hospital as a child because of the images in your dream. If you wanted to explore it you might try http://dreamhawk.com/body-and-mind/the-arm-circling-meditation/
Tony
I had a dream I had 6-10 children and was in the process of naming them… one of the little girls was about 5 before I named her Sydney. Can you tell me what that was all about?
Thank you!
I was standing on the shoulder of my grandmother and mother. But i was also holding from green tall grass, i guess it was like maize plants to prevent falling. They were walking and i was standing on them. Then i felt as if i could hurt them i said i will go down, then grandma said thanks for understanding. On the second part of the dream i was at home (i live abroad) and was about to leave. I was in the street and one of my friends came by on a taxi so i joined him. Then i was at my grandma’s house. All the actions took place at night. It was dark. People were sleeping. I told them that i was leaving. Then i was a in a shop where i was trying to buy some soveniers/presents to take with me.
Thank you in advance if you happen to have time and interprete this dream.
I dream i was being raped by my partner son i called to my partner for help but he did not come i got away and his son, step son also caught me and raped me again and he did nothing he had a paint brush in his hand painting and to me he seemed to be glad as he wanted to punish me for staying away from him, i got away and ran for the neighbor for help, and she said my partner told them about me and she did offer any assistance, in woke from the dream confused and wanting to cry as i am away from my partner for a week now.
Hi Tony,
I am reading Caroline Myss book Sacred Contracts and for a week I asked and prayed for a dream that might indicate to me where I’m at in my life. This is the dream that came.
I am in a foreign country on the outskirts of a town or city at night. I’m very afraid because I need to hitch a lift. I hear a vehicle approaching but instead of hitching I get an overwhelming sense of doom so I hide. I see a lorry pass. The light is on in the cab and I see the driver – a very mean looking man. I step back onto the road unaware of a second lorry approaching. The driver sees me and I’m terrified he’ll stop but he keeps going. I continue to walk. After a while a long grey car passes and in the headlights I see a house up ahead surrounded by a large stone wall. There is a stairs of stone steps on my side of the wall so I climb them and peer over. It is daylight on the other side of the wall and I see a woman hanging clothes on a clothes line. She is wearing a headscarf and even though she doesn’t look like me I know she is me. She smiles and I say I need a lift. She nods. I wouldn’t take the lift if it’s just me and a man though I say and she smiles in understanding. A huge sense of relief washes over me because I know the next part of my journey involves going over a mountain with very sheer cliff sides. I follow her into the house and its like stepping into a child’s story book. The rooms are tiny and there is a topsy turvy spiral staircase in one corner of the room. The lady who was me now changes into my friend Yvonne and the driver of the car is her husband Graham. I begin to relay a story to them about meeting my ex-husband. I tell them that he hugged me and suddenly I was lying next to him and I could feel the memories of our life together seeping into me, draining me. I began to loose energy and power and was afraid I would seep back into him because I didn’t feel I had the power not to and then suddenly this burst of energy pushed me to my feet and away from him. In telling the story I feel sad and angry that I could have gone back to my ex-husband after everything he’s done to me. Graham brushes it off and begins telling me they don’t stay in anymore on New Years Eve because there’s a great pub down the road. I follow them to a two storey building covered with ivy and a wonky front porch. Inside there are long tables with benches and a roaring open fire. There is a music session playing in one corner and every table is heavy with candles, it seems to be the only form of light available. I sit down and suddenly the room fills with an air of excitement. The person next to me nudges me and tells me there’s an old man coming who is a great character and story teller but that he speaks in another language so I’m not to be too concerned if I can’t understand him. An old man appears and takes a seat and I am immediately drawn to him. He begins to speak and even though its in a language I’ve never heard I understand every word he says. His eyes move around the room and settle on mine and suddenly all sounds become muffled and I am aware of nothing but him and me. After minutes the person next to the old man points at me and says “look. Look at the connection between them”. At that point my friend Yvonne returns and I follow her into the next room. There is a stack of shelves overflowing with gifts wrapped in gold and a very large round table dressed in a snow white lace cloths. I follow her outside and it is Summer time. I look to my feet and see a child standing there and I immediately know he is my son even though I have no recollection of being pregnant or giving birth. He has piercing blue eyes and blonde hair and a very wide face. He’s quite stocky with big chubby hands. I lift him into my arms and walk down the road into a long stone building with lots of glass windows. There I meet a woman with her son in her arms but my son shies away from him so I move into another room. There I am having my photo taken. I’m facing the corner wearing a metallic grey top that tied with a string around my neck and across my back and tight black trousers and heels. I glance to the side and see my reflection and even though its strange what’s happening I’m quite comfortable with it. After the shoot I ask to see the photos but strangely none of them have come out. The only images the photographer has are of the room with the shelves overflowing with gifts but instead of being empty it is full of women and children.
I’m 42 years of age. I am currently unemployed as I was unwell for the past two years and required eight surgeries last year. In the midst of the surgeries my husband left me and met someone else whom he got pregnant in 9 weeks. We had tried to conceive for four years. I love to write and have written three novels, unfortunately unpublished but I keep writing nonetheless. I know there is huge meaning in this dream and I really don’t want to miss the message especially as I asked for it. Any input you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tony
My sister passed away 6 years ago from pancreatic cancer. We were able to spend quality time together before the cancer really took over her. I spent her last days with her until she passed.
I keep having a recurring dream that I am living life and I keep finding out that she is alive and in my dream I can’t wait to see her but at the same time keep questioning why we have not seen eachother in so long. I have had this dream at least 6 times in the last year. I would love to know if there is a meaning behind it that I am not aware of.
I had really hoped to find an email to rather send you this dream than post it. Being as this dream really freaked me out. I really hope you can help me find some understanding with this dream, The dream occured dec. 21. 2012.
I had been pulled into this room there were 3 people in there, one woman to my right and an larger man on my left. And the other man was sitting a next to the man on my left. Sitting between them the woman on my right had five fingers including a thumb, she put her had up to make a gesture and put her middle finger down so the two on the outsides where still up. And then started laughing as if she did something wrong, the others also laughed. I felt uneasy in here yet confused. The woman looked to me and opened a book and said have you ever heard of the dynasty, (as I could see the words written in the book). As she went on explaining about that I cant remember what was said. But, then as I looked in front of me a pillar of wooden cages came out of the ground in each cage there was a woman inside sitting probably 5 or 6 total. As the tower stood then a lower set of cages came out but this one was flat like the stand for the alter and women were also in there. Then the tower took up in flames tho no one was screaming . As that happened I started in confusing. When all of a sudden the man on my left Stabbed me in the heart as I yelled the woman on my right stabbed my on my right side under my armpit. Then the man took this stick with broken ends and stuck it in my wound and took another one and told me to bite down on it. Things went a bit foggy after that, But I pulled my self up and started trying to leave. While none of them had stopped me I left the room Turned around one last time to see this man with somewhat long dark hair, giving me a weird smile like something had been completed. Not long after my walking around I woke up.
Thank you for you time and help,
Sam~
Sam – You need to understand that dreams are just like computer games in which you get very involved and face monsters and kill or be killed and nothing has actually happened – you are still alive and unhurt. But in this wonderfully alive virtual reality of your dreams we are all playing the game of life – the game we play in which we face or run away from the things that scare us; in which we explore the depths of our existence or learn how to love – or simply meet a reflection of our own weakness, terror and of course the wonder of your inner genius. For that is all it is – a magic mirror in which we see ourselves naked of pretence.
In your dream you are facing real fears, but actually they are images like in a computer game. Nothing can hurt you except your own fears. Fears are things that eat your confidence and weaken you.
So please read http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-us/#Reflect and the piece following it.
Tony
i had this dream over 5 times now and it has the same feeling.. i’m a 28 years old single female i met this guy for 4 times we don’t even know each other but we talk fun light conversation each time we see each other and i think i might be attracted to him
so the first time i had a dream that i was at the house i grew up at which was at anther country (my childhood home )and that he was sleeping at my bed all i felt that i was surprised that my parents knew him and kept telling me not to talk loud so i don’t disturb him while he is sleeping at the same spot i used to sleep at the feeling at the dream was “surprise” i was asking what is he doing at my parents house, at my bed room them woke up and starts talking to my parents and i also was surprised how and when he know them that well ?
the second time that he was at the house i live in now doing some paper work and i got out of my room to find him setting at my dininng room he was happy talking to me we were kidding and having a funny conversation but i also had this surprised feeling what is he doing here and how did he appeared here the same felling i had at the first dream
the last one i had today that i was calling one of my female friends who knows him and that he answered her phone so once again i felt surprised why did he answered her phone and how did it end both of us talking laughing at the phone and while i was talking to him i started to feel this light earthquake it wasn’t strong i saw the sealing lamp shaking and i told him do you feel the earthquake? it went for few seconds and we continued our conversation
the main feeling at the 3 dreams i am surprised of him appearing where i am the second felling that we talk funny and laugh at the dreams the last one my parents knowing him
plz help me understant my self is it because i like him maybe i do wanna a good realship and i feel lonly these days od dose it mean that maybe there is a chance for me with him ..i need help
Lolla – You give me the impression of being a loving woman. At 28 you have a lot to give, and you have a powerful urge to find a man who will be good for you. That is a big part of what is behind your dreams. The other is that you have actually met someone who will talk and share pleasure with you. So that is a good and healthy start.
Obviously your loneliness plays a part in your dreams, but there is a chance for a continued friendship. The important partners I have met n my life have always been someone who asked me or just walked up and kissed me – me being a retiring sort of person. So I would suggest you get in a conversation with him and ask him if he is interested in having a coffee with you – or whatever you feel I appropriate. It might not work, but there is nothing lost by trying.
Tony
Wonder if you can help me out here. A little history. Made the choice to see a boy I knew when I was 14 back in the summer of 2010 after 20 plus years. We meet a couple of times and felt like no time had passed. The first time was 11 days before he was to marry for the first time. Had a lovely dinner and the love.. Oh it was there. Lead to other things but not sex. Left that night missing like mad with I love yous like crazy. Then a month and 1/2 passes we choose to meet again. This time we were intimate for the first time ever. That all goes back to 2010. Fast forward since.. My husband found out. I did not see him again, but kept contact thru text. It was very emotional.. Then I put something in writing last march, H found it and he got a hold of the wifes email and sent here all he found. Now both spouses know and we can never see on another again. It feels like he died it hurts so bad. Anway.. I keep having this dream that I’m at his place. Its very open. I’m in the bedroom with him. I’m looking around and I see all his wifes stuff. Vases, art, her pocketbook. Then he leaves for work and I’m still in his place. Driving me nuts. Any ideas? He says he will love me forever.. Not in dream IRL. Help!
Hi Tony, is really a placer to talk to you. I am writing you from Buenos Aires, Argentina. It´s the second time I try to contact you, the first one you didn´t answer, but that´s ok, hope to have better luck in this one.
I love your work, I think it´s marvellous and really helpfull. I visit your site quite often, most of all because of the symbols dictionary. I guess I am in a similar kind of search you were when you were when you was my age. I left university after to understood that what I was seeking was truth, not the mere understanding and repetition of books and authors, and I am aware that if you really want the truth, it just comes, and seizes you. Is great you selflessly shared it to the world by the internet, so thank you again.
Now, I want to ask you a thing, regarding understanding of symbols, such in dreams as in daily life. Do you use other materials in this tasks, I mean, symbols dictionaries you might recommend (what could seem a paradox, but they are certainly importants tools to have), or only your reason and intuition?
Just that.
And thank you again.
Best Regards
Juan M.
Juan – Thank you for your real interest in seeking. Thank you for also understanding that I cannot answer all the posts I get. Your dream of the white owl was one I wish I had answered.
Do I use other materials to understand dream symbols? Mostly I use a search program called dtSearch to find images in 7000 dreams I have on my hard disk. I look to see how people use images in their dreams. But most important is that for years I explored my dreams – not interpreted them. I will list ways of doing this shortly. The massive experience I gained from that has helped me enormously.
Using reason is not always a good guide, because all it has is the already experienced information. Thoughts are like photocopies of reality. Your thoughts about someone may be quite good but they are never that person as a living reality. To know the truth about anything you would need to know everything about everything in the universe. And the universe is all the time changing and growing.
I often use intuition to understand dreams people send me, as often I cannot understand anything about the dream. So try developing the things in http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/using-your-intuition-1/ Also see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/#TalkingAs
These take work to develop, but using them you will gradually find a wonderful world within you, that leaves behind any attempt to interpret with your thinking process.
If you have a partner who is interested in dreams, it would be excellent to use the things described in http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/peer-dream-group/. And is possible see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/your-guru-the-dream-step-one/
Please write again if you need help.
Tony
I had a dream that my brother has passed away. I walked upstairs to the kitchen and my brother ghost and grandfathers ghost were standing there with my family. My grandfather’s ghost was telling us it was ok and not to worry or be sad. I looked at everyone and said I can’t deal with this and started crying. I ran into the bathroom and looked in the mirror and cried why why did you have to take him. Then all of a sudden this women appeared in the conor and said I am death and then her face went all messed up I started screaming. I woke up from my dream still screaming and tears were rolling down my face.
Hey Tony, would love to get your insight on a rather odd dream I just had, or at least a snippet from it.
I was riding on a horse with my twin brother, but we were standing up on the horse, almost ’surfing’ on its back. He was the one steering the horse and I was more or less a passenger trying to keep my balance (as we were standing it felt hard). We came to what looked like a big bump in the trail and the horse took it almost like as if it were a jump, the horse flew into the air and when it landed, both of its front feet broke off. It lay on the ground, with no front feet, whimpering clearly in pain. Me and my brother came to the seemingly obvious conclusion that we should kill the horse to put it out of its misery. I remember helping my brother with this by bashing the horse with something in the head area. It was a really unpleasant experience and after it was over I felt like we should have let it live and that the horse maybe could have been saved and lived at least some sort of life.
Any of your insight on this would be appreciated.