A dream dictionary, used honestly
The old site at this address kept a free dream dictionary that the rest of the web linked to. It is restored here, with one honest warning attached.
A dream dictionary assigns meanings to dream images: teeth falling out mean anxiety about loss, flying means freedom, water means emotion. The genre is ancient — Artemidorus was interpreting Greek dreams professionally in the second century — and the assignments have been remarkably stable across centuries of folklore.
The honest warning: there is no evidence that dream symbols carry fixed meanings. Modern dream research finds dreaming reflects the dreamer's own concerns, memories and feelings — which is why the same image can mean opposite things to two people. A snake is dread to one dreamer and medicine to another. The dictionary meaning is a folk average, not a decoding.
How to use one anyway
Used lightly, a dictionary is a good prompt. The method that works:
- Write the dream down before it evaporates — detail decays within minutes of waking.
- Note the feeling first. A calm ocean and a drowning ocean are not one symbol.
- Ask what the image means to you before looking anything up.
- Then read the traditional entry as one suggestion among several, and keep whatever actually resonates.
Treat the entries below as folklore with occasional psychological sense, not as a codebook.
The entries
The restored letters so far, at their original strength:
- Symbols beginning with B — baby to burial.
- Symbols beginning with D — dancing to drowning.
More letters may be restored over time; these two survived because other sites linked to them.