Dream Dictionary

I started writing Dream Dictionary in 1970. It has been a lifelong work to add to it in length and quality. And remember it is constantly upgraded and given new entries. So if there is something you do not understand or is missing, tell me.

Platypus

The platypus is a creature that seems to bridge the gap between egg laying creatures and mammals that carry their unborn inside them. The platypus is a warm blooded mammal but lays eggs. As far […]...More

Heather

The word heather comes from the word ‘heath’ which is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils, and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. It is often high ground where little […]...More

Plank

Depends what they are used for in dream. Can be security in life if flooring – or sense of losing basic support if rotten floor. See: floor under house and buildings. If for making something: […]...More

Irrational

Our irrational self or mind works in quite a different way to our rational or logical mind mind. Our logical mind works usually from things it already knows to reach conclusions unless it is researching […]...More

Headache

Despite conventional thinking by many people, headaches are by no means “normal” but instead are your body’s way of saying something is wrong. For instance I have not suffered a headache for over twenty years. Consider […]...More

Veil

This can suggest several things. It indicates something you want to hide or half-hide. It can be knowledge, ideas, feelings, motives, intentions, secrets you wish were not on view. Veils can suggest shyness, modesty, mystery, […]...More

Pilot

Someone connected with trust who can guide you through big changes in your life. If the trust is not felt in the dream it might indicate you feel you have no inner wisdom or skill […]...More

Criminal

I had read somewhere that the only difference between a criminal and a successful person was their habits. Two of the great forces that push at the human soul or psyche are, firstly, social pressure, […]...More

Bridge Bridging

The bridge often has the significance of crossing or moving from one phase of life, activity or emphasis to another. So it can be used to represent leaving youth behind and meeting old age. It […]...More

Stretch Stretching

It suggest going beyond your normal limits, or extending what you are capable of. Maybe you see it as improving your health or performance.    ...More

Masochism

“Certainly we don’t all go around writhing with exotic pains. But many men and women with ulcers, colitis, and headaches are expiating their guilt by inches. Some are so accident prone that they can hardly […]...More

Power

There is so much talk and advertising in the West of how we can create our own lives, how we can be successful, the secret of happiness, and the power we have of creating what […]...More

Exploring a dream

Mostly we hear about analysing dreams, as if they are something we could penetrate by thinking about, or being analytical about a dream. In writing about this elsewhere I have said this is rather like […]...More

Peeping Tom

Perhaps it relates to someone who has not really grown up sexually and so has not met a woman’s or man’s full sexuality with their or full sexuality. So it may indicate infantile feelings, maybe […]...More

Language – foreign or strange

One function of dreams is to bring aspects of our thinking and feeling which may be ill defined, toward clarification. Foreign or strange language may therefore illustrate something which is being communicated to us from […]...More

Kayak

It probably represents your ability to survive in rough stretches of your experience. But it depends on what happens in the dream and whether you survive even in rough water and upside-down.  ...More
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