About
Welcome to DreamHawk.com, one of the longest running dream interpretation sites in existence. Millions of people have accessed its database of dream symbols, interpretations and reference material.
The site began in the mid-eighties on CompuServe, and later was called Waves. It has over 6000 individual pages of information.
About the Author
Tony Crisp is an internationally renowned expert on dreams and their interpretation. His bestselling Dream Dictionary: An A to Z Guide to Understanding Your Unconscious Mind has become a classic of the genre. Based on material from thousands of dreams gathered during three decades of research, the Dream Dictionary has been translated into seven languages worldwide. See Tony’s Books
Tony has worked at the vanguard of the personal development and self-help movement for more than fifty years, co-founding in the 1970s one of the first human growth centres in the UK. In addition to teaching and leading groups in self-development and yoga, Tony has worked variously as a photographer, journalist, writer and broadcaster both in the UK and abroad. He was LBC’s resident dream therapist for seven years.
Tony was also the earliest writer on dreams who attempted a dream dictionary not based on the more rigid dream theories derived from Freudian or Jungian ideas. His book Do You Dream, published in 1971, was one of the first of his many other books about dreams and the inner life, and included a dream dictionary.
He has five children and currently lives alone in a cottage in Wales. For a more detailed look at Tony’s life see Biographical Information.
But more important than that is that I am an ‘End User’. That is I present myself not as an authority on dreams but as an end user who has used dreams to survive, to find the unborn part of me, and that it has taken me most of my life. As an end user I dealt in the dreams I was using. In this way I earned a living and hopefully showed other people how to ‘use’ dreams as well. I had an intense feeling with this, as if it was vitally important, and that presenting myself in this way would alter the whole direction of my life.
Site Features
The site enables you to search the Dream Dictionary for any entry and quickly find it, via the Search box at the top right of the page. Such a search will also bring up related entries, and give the user access to a vast database of knowledge.
Many of the entries also link to articles in the Encyclopedia of Dreams, Life and Human Mystery, offering further reading on a vast range of related topics.
A huge collection of features can be found on Features-Found-on-Site
Our Policy
It has always been Tony’s policy never to charge for any service given, wishing to pass on the help and love that flows from ordinary people supporting each other, so this site and the hours spent producing it are a non-commercial venture. But obviously we need your support in maintaining the site, and ask for that in the following ways:
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He has five children and currently lives alone in a cottage in Wales. For a more detailed look at Tony’s life see Biographical Information.
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I need to contact Tony with a permission request.
Dear Tony Crisp the great author:
If I –
Do not directly paraphrase anything from your book, especially large numbers of sentences of paragraphs, MAY I- Use what I have learned in a blog online in my complete own original writing- FOR PROFIT?
p.s. I am promoting your book on my website through Indiebound.org. I help sell your book. 🙂
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I had a dream,we were so many people travelling in a line,i saw a snake besides,i looked black,after it sensing that i had seen it,it took off but it was surrounded,it decicded to fly and it changed the color to a red head and the other part blue ,it flue and then dissapered in the grass,please help me with the interpretation
Hello, Tony, i just want to say that i came across your website about 2 weeks ago, i was looking up something in your dream dictionary page. I have to tell you that your website has been an inspiration for me…. i have been feeling lost for a few years. Your articles are giving me great energy to carry on 🙂
I have a question… what does it mean if you keep dreaming about somebody all the time…. this person is a old work college, who does not speak to me ( for over a year now) i believe we had feelings for each other but they were never expressed…. he pops up in dreams quite often…… don’t really know what to do about it…….
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Regards
Chanell
I just woke up from a beautiful yet mysterious dream. I was dreaming in my dream. ( it’s the second time this has happened to me ever and this in a short time).
So I’m dreaming in my dream that an eagle is flying right by me to my left about ten feet below.
I realize that something is strange in the fact that I’m higher than the eagle. I am laying down on the highest point of a Rocky Mountain.
I felt all this emotion mixed with a little fear but mostly puzzled as to why I’m so high and the feeling becomes more uncomfortable until it wakes me up and I realize that I’m sitting on a blue long chair by the water during the day but it is now night
With reflection of the moon on the water and the chair now touches the water. It’s magical. I then understand why in my dream I was uncomfortable being on peak of the rock in my eagle dream because I was laying accross the chair where you usually put your head.
Then I proceeded going back to the house and two other dreams follow ( including a ghost or spirit urinating on me from left bathroom stall and a man a security guy doesn’t believe me)
The feeling of knowing you were dreaming yet still not knowing you are still dreaming eventhough you woke up in your dream and think you’re awake is mind boggling.
Have you ever had that? Please help me make sense of this double dream.
Thank you
A vivid dreamer
MJ – You have taken in as truths mistaken ideas about dreaming. You felt for instance that if you were high you could fall and hurt yourself. Something that needs remembering is that dreams are a half way house between your central self/core self and our personal awareness. It is a form of communication between what has no recognised form as far as our personality or reasoning mind is concerned. So to do this it uses images of people, things and animals, as well as scenes that we might understand if we explore what we associate with the dream images. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing
So because you were somewhat frightened you change the images to something you could cope with. Dream images are simply your own fears, thoughts and speculations clothed in dream images. And being high on the Rockies is only images clothing your awareness taking in a much bigger picture of the world than you usually have. Everything in a dream represent the state of your mind or personality. To understand a dream you have to ‘get behind’ the images. Maybe by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/practical-techniques-for-understanding-your-dreams/
The experience you mention of waking and yet still dreaming is fairly common, though I have never experienced it myself. It shows how we can create any feelings and situation in a dream as if it were real. That is why it is seen as a virtual reality. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-magical-dream-machine/
Freud reckoned it was so we could carry on sleeping. Maybe it symbolises that we need to wake up to something our dream is showing us.
Example: Then I ‘woke up’ from that dream within a dream and into the next dream, which was a similar scene. I was again in bed with my husband, but I had now woken up from this dream – and of course was still dreaming – and was worried that I had actually screamed in my sleep and woken people up. But my husband was still soundly asleep, and so I realized with relief (but also a little disappointment) that it had all just been a dream and I hadn’t disturbed anyone. Then I woke up from that dream, and was puzzled.
Tony
Hi Tony,
I just want to say a very big “Thank You”…for your insightful articles and for your dream interpretation pieces and dream dictionary. They have all been exceedingly helpful.
~ Amber
What is the meani.g of two friends sharing a simalar dream
Dear Tony,
I have had 24 000-26-000 dreams to-date, worked on all of them alone, perhaps a few chats with friends to get a fresh angle.
i felt the first ten-fifteen thousands dreams had to be more like an osmosis, a fermentation , I had to be very careful walking the walk.the soul had been blown into a thousand pieces,
i studied psychological astrology with Liz Greene, in addition studied lots of Jung and Greek myths.. i aligned my dreams up to the movements of the planets and worked with a psychological interpretation.
i started out with spiritualism ( a life saver) i have recently returned to spiritualism, now that I am over the major part of my studies. It was very interesting reading about your personal journey
Warm regards
Carole Szerman
What does it mean to dream that I realize some one is watching me bathe. I am greatly upset, then realize I am hidden from his view by a frosted glass wall….?
Thank you 🙂
Hi Tony, today in the day time I had a scary dream. It’s really important if you can interpret it for me. The dream was about my pet dog, Max, who is a 10 month old lab. In the dream someone brought me another dog, something like a Tibetan Spaniel, (not exactly). Later, I found out that the tibetan spaniel killed Max, and his body was lying in my room all soaked up in blood. And then I saw myself crying uncontrollably. I and my parents, brother love Max unconditionally. The dream has really terrified me. Please decipher the meaning of this dream.
Looking forward to hear from you soon!
Thanks
I would be honored to write a guest article on your site. I started my meanings of dreams site several months ago and can say it is slow going but a task of heart rather than necessity. I enjoy your work and articles.
Kevin – Thank you for saying what you wrote to me. You have a well weathered face, like my own.
I too are taking a long, long time on upgrading the online dream dictionary, so I look forward to any thing you have to offer. If it fits with the site I will use it.
Tony
What does it mean when I had a dream that my deceased husband (massive heart attack at 44 years old) is really alive and everyone else knows/knew, but nobody told me. I accidently saw him & learned that he wasn’t really dead when I took my kids to see their paternal grandmother / relatives? The dream left me feeling glad that he was alive for my children, but horribly betrayed for me AND my children.
Hi Tony
I was lent ‘Yoga and relaxation’ by a friend when I was 14. I recall looking at the pictures and thinking “I’ve seen this kind of thing before”, even though I had not, in this life.
I’m not a believer / disbeliever in reincarnation, but experiences like that make me wonder…
I just wanted to say that book contained more useful information on Yoga than many others I’ve since seen. Especially when it came to higher states etc.
I recall ( I have not seen the book for many years ), you quoting one sage who said, about attaining higher states, “Wait…”
Something which my mind has returned to, and used, many times.
Interested to hear your story. Best wishes and insights.
Pete
Pete – It is so good to hear of the story of one message in a bottle I dropped into the sea. Looking back I really didn’t know very much of what I was writing – except perhaps a strange feeling of certainty. I still do not – but the wonderful feeling has grown roots and put out a stem and become a beautiful tree. See http://dreamhawk.com/poems/the-tree/ – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-sacred-tree-in-dreams-and-myths/
Tony
Dear Tony, last night, I had a dream of two alligators in a river, where I was, too. I saw each alligator swallowing someone who I have not met before, and I could see that person lying down in their bellies. The alligators passed me, and I really did not feel anything.
How can we interpret this dream?
Thank you
Hello,
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If yes, could you tell me what spaces are available, the appropriate CPM price and what is the amount of impressions you receive per Month?
I look forward to your reply.
Kind Regards,
Malina
Malina – The only advertising I use is with Google Adsense. There are some psychics advertise there.
Meanwhile thanks for your interest.
Tony
Dear Mr. Tony Crisp,
I’m glad that I ran into your website.
I’m writing down my dreams for more than ten years now and it helped me a lot to see some things about myself I usually am not able to notice in my waking life. I must say, that when I read your dictionary, I’ve found some similar discoveries as I did discovered working with my dreams through these years. I was researching a lot to find interlocutor experienced by her/his experience regarding dreams. Of course I discovered many websites, mostly copy-pasting average superficial explanations of symbols.
I’m very glad to found your website with work from your own experiences. And I love the way you introduced yourself here. The story captured my attention and it shows honesty and wisdom gained from life. Thank you!