Dreams have caused a lot of confusion and bewildered human beings ever since the times of earlier civilizations. Dreams were once believed to only be interpreted by people who had special influence and powers in primeval civilizations because the symbols where said to be supernatural, holy and divine messages from a higher power. Fast forward now to the 21 century and you will see an vast improvement when it comes to interpreting dreams thanks to a famous psychiatrist called Carl Gustav Jung who changed the way we dream forever.
Dream Interpretation
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Here at dream dictionary you can interpret your dreams for free. Our live active dream forum has experts waiting for you to post your dream to be analyzed. They say that you are your own best interpreter when it comes to decoding your own dreams. Members in our dream community will help you shed light one the metaphors and symbolism behind your dreams.
Carl Jung Dream Quote
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach’.
Why Interpret your dreams? Why not! What do you have to lose other than to gain inner perspective within yourself. Don’t ignore or be afraid to challenge whats locked away deep in your unconscious mind, understanding and knowing it can be very rewarding.
Dream symbols come in all shapes, colors and feeling, some scare us, and others make us feel like we got a taste of heaven. Dream and the symbols in them have been around since the beginning of time and will keep occurring as long as humans will be in existence so there must be a reason on why we get them.
Take away your blinders and start paying attention to the little detail you may have overlooked in your dreams and see what you might come up with. Whenever our body is infected by a virus or a bacteria, the rising level of fever is a natural process. No conscious decision is needed to re-establish the body’s balance.
The same system works in our psyche. In times when we are out of balance with our natural pattern of life, our subconscious sends us dreams and visions that are created by our inner self. Dream Interpretation is not as easy as opening up a dictionary and having your dream symbols answered right in front of your eyes.
All symbols are unique to the dreamer and some symbols might mean something to one but different to another. This is why we recommend you start writing down your dreams in a dream journal and remembering the events, people and emotional feelings you have during this time.
Dream symbols come across as metaphors via the unconscious and its up to you to have an open mind and puzzle together the symbols you just received in your dream.
In order to interpret your dream symbol you must recognize that all dream symbols are not the same for every individual. A train to one dreamer might mean a totally different representation to another.
Animal Dreams
Dream Interpretation Benefits
A lot of people do not realize that dreams play a very important part of our day to day lives. When you learn to interpret them it is like you experience a new realm or world. It literally changes your life!
There are a number of resources on our website to help you understand how and why dreams are part of human existence. Although nobody knows for certain why we dream, the fact is it occurs every night. Why wouldn’t you want to understand what occurs every time you close your eyes and relax your mind a bit? Experts believe that dreams hold the key to hidden aspects of us.
Learning to interpret these symbols you will learn to unlock the mysterious and misunderstood parts of your life. When you pay attention to unlocking and interpreting your dreams then you could understand yourself properly and lead a better life.
When we dream there are no barriers. The past, present and future is all one in the unconscious mind. There are infinite possibilities in the dream world, you can learn to connect and be in tune with those you are close with or are somewhat connected with you. We all have the ability to dream and do so every night, just taking ten minutes to write down our dreams would lead us to knowledge that could help us excel in all areas of our life.
A dream dictionary provides a wide vocabulary of words that we could use to interpret the images in our dreams that our unconscious uses to represent our waking life.
Dream Interpretations A – Z
Thousands of dreams and symbols interpreted from our very interactive forum to our A – Z dictionary. They usually include very common images that are close in meaning with interpretations to the puns that the mind plays. Although dream dictionaries are generally not regarded within the psychology community as scientifically viable, the dictionaries have provided a lot of help in interpreting our dreams even by most psychologists.
The art of dream interpretation has been considered part of science distinctively in psychology since the 19th century. There were dream symbols from the days that dreaming was not considered scientific which is why dream interpretations vary in different cultures. This lead to the investigation of forms, expressions, symbols and images involved in dreaming. The thing is the mind surprisingly remembers every single image and tends to jumble words and images together.
The dictionary offers translations by the dream analysts. It was first started by Sigmund Freud who unraveled a lot of the mysteries involved with dreaming. He developed the dream dictionary so that people could look for the images found in their dreams in order to relate it to their waking life situations.
Popular Dream Searches:
- Ladder Symbolism
- Octopus Symbolism
- Devil Dreams
- Fire Dreams
- Number Symbolism
- Fish Dreams
- Ex Relationship Dreams
- Feeling Trapped
- Knives
- Zombie Apocalypse
- Being Shot
- Ghost and Ghouls
- Toilet
- Blood
- Big Bad Wolf
- Hair Falling Out
- Clown
Most Common Dreams:
Dreams have fascinated people since the beginning of time; yet we are still trying to come up with its true purpose. Dream symbols are enigmatic in nature depending the culture background, religion and personal experiences.
A snake for example might come across as an enemy for some, however in many different cultures the snake might be a representation of energy rising. If you notice the snake eating its tail brings your attention to the uroborus; the symbol of personal transformation.
Strange Occurrence During Sleep:
If you thought your dreams where strange, it gets a bit stranger. Common hallucinations called sleep paralysis happen just before we walk up or just falling right to sleep. These strange feelings are classified under Hypnopompic hallucinations (HPHs) are visual and auditory (e.g., feeling someone or something present in the room; witch on your back; being unable to breath, seeing flashes; hearing voices being called) Believe it or not they are quite normal and happens to many people.
Outer Body Experiences are another strange phenomenon in which a person seems to perceive the world from a location outside their physical body. The sensation might be equivalent standing right beside an airplane ready for take off, shaking or noticing flashes as they are ready to depart.
Sleepwalking falls under another strange category of dreaming that is characterized by a complex action behavior (walking) during sleep. Occasionally, the person may talk, but it does not make sense.
Commonly known as exploding head syndrome phenomenon which consists of a loud bang just before you fall asleep and upon waking. This strange occurrence happens to at least 14% of the population that feels like a violent explosion that has erupted in your head.
Hollywood Popular Dream Movies
Hollywood has glamorized dreams as a main premise for movies. Many others directors use dreams to bring omens to come in the near future. The movie Exorcist used a dream sequence to signify future events. We used this dream and dissected all the symbolism in Father Karris dream.
Psychic or Precognition Dreams:
Once you learn the forgotten language of dreaming and its symbols you will notice a very strange sequence of patterns. Having an open mind helps bring the outside world closer to the inside world; synchronicity and other meaningful events will start to occur. You may dream of dead relatives sending you love from beyond; or they give you hints of people with malicious intent out to get you.
Dream Journal/Remembering Your Dreams:
People who say they dont remember their dreams do not try hard enough to remember them. You lose up to 90% of dream recall the first minute you wake up. Like going to the gym to get bigger you need to strengthen your muscle. This same concept applies to dreaming; however you need to strengthen your dream memory muscle. You will notice the more you practice the more contents and symbols you will remember. There are many benefits to remembering your dreams as it acts as a guide moving you towards wholeness.
- A free psychologist
- A guide to become compete/whole
- Warnings of dangerous people
- It will open more spiritual doors
- You are able to fix past problems
- Helps encourage you to be the best, get closer to the self
According to Carl Jung’s analytic psychology, the shadow archetype represents “the dark side” of your personality. Stored in the unconscious lives your repressed ideas, idiosyncrasies, instincts and weaknesses. The shadow molds out of our attempts to adapt and to be accepted into the world we live in, once you go head to head with the shadow it becomes weak – it will no longer possess you. The shadow appears in your dreams in many different forms bringing light despite how scary it is for you to fix this issue.
- Greed and lust
- Devouring mother complex
- Envy
- Anger and fear
- Past memories
My dream last night was about me in this house playing nerf guns with my cousins and this guy breaks in the house comes into the living room and with a mask on runs upstairs while im pointing my gun at him (a real gun) he’s pointing his real gun at me while running up stairs and I say “nope nevermind,” and aim my gun down by then he comes back down with whatever stuff he stole from upstairs and aims his gun at me chasing me around the pillar in the living room holding the ceiling of the house… Read more »
I had two dreams this morning. One was my oldest son riding a tricycle behind a big vehicle too close and I was trying to catch up to him but woke up. The second one was my sister in the hospital in a wheel chair with her foot all bandaged from surgery when they push her by me in a room with my foot up because I had surgery on my foot too!
Two dreams and I woke without saving my son. He’s 53 years old now.
I had a dream about my papa (he died 7 years ago we were very close). In the dream I was at a hotel getting everything together to leave for me my fiancé and my kids. I know it was hotel because I remember seeing the room but it was so much chaos around, I kept hearing other people and just loudness. My fiance was in the car with the kids and I kept trying to call him off my papas phone but the phone kept glitching when I tried to dial the number. (I was sleeping in my daughters… Read more »
I had a dream that I was back home at my grandparents house, outside helping my grandfather w yard work. Suddenly I see this GIANT, spider with legs like daddy long legs but thick. It was disproportionately giant. Bigger than a small dog. It ran up his leg to his shorts, and I lost it. He then felt it and shook it out and it scurried off. Then it came running after me. Once it got maybe 3ft from me, I woke up partially I think, and my dream changed. The spider morphed into a house somehow and my dream… Read more »
So it kind of starts off weird (the whole thing is weird) and I’m this girl named Lily. Lily is trying to go home, but she doesn’t really know where home is. So I spend what feels like a few days (it’s all very vivid, felt way too realistic) just traveling, meeting people, trying to get home, wherever that is. And then I’m talking to some lady and suddenly I’m on a ship passing through a canal. I’m not Lily anymore, I’m some, like, water spirit named Naiasis, who is supposed to be Lily’s brother. Naiasis is trying to find… Read more »
I often have a lot of recurring dreams; however, one usually stands out to me. In this dream, I am outside of an inactive volcano. The air is thick and heavy, and in my hand is an unlit match. In the distance, there is a path with thorns and bushes making it difficult to see through. While standing on the edge of the volcano, I feel a strong sense of urgency, yet I am unable to move. I can’t light the match, and I can’t walk towards the path ahead of me. The dream ends once a gust of wind knocks the match out of my hand. I have this dream quite often,… Read more »
Couple years ago I had a terrible nightmare in the dream my children died right in front of me and I couldn’t do anything to stop it or save them, but the weirdest part about it was that my girlfriend that I’m currently seeing was driving the vehicle in the nightmare that we were all in. She was the first one to die but I didn’t know her back then and when I met her in that nightmare came back to my mind I realized it was her that was driving in the nightmare! I woke up from this nightmare… Read more »
Last night around 3am I had a dream I was in a house that had felt familiar to a previous dream I had at a time somewhere in my life. Where there was some type of ancient technology beneath the house. Not sure if it was haunted or not. I asked if it was turned on, I believe from the previous dream it was to help me jump high and fly which I tried to do and whoever I was talking to in the house said it wasnt on. Then I began to sit down with 2 people criss crossed… Read more »
Last night I dreamt I was cleaning off a trail in the woods. As I raked back leaves, dirt and debris the outline of a Sasquatch laying beside the path appeared in the dirt. It was like a geologist uncovering fossils. His head was part of a root system and it had several scratches and discoloration visible. I felt no fear and I gently rubbed across the scratches and dirt on his head. He gently pulled me to his shoulder and held me tight. I could smell and even taste the dirt and air!! I was terrified for a second… Read more »
Last night I had a dream where I had walked into a class at school, like normal. But there was someone I haven’t seen before and I sat next to them. After I sat next to her, she turned to look at me and politely smiled and said hello. I felt happy around her and she felt like she was the perfect person to be with. After that we really got to know each other and even fully love each other for that session of school, and then I woke up. What was really weird is that I distinctively remember… Read more »
I have been having this dream were I am fine then I can’t walk I literally pick up my legs to walk
Had a dream 2 nights now about a sink hole in my yard. It had taken place in 2 different places in my dream but both related to water and a hole being discovered.
I dreamt I went to visit a relative of mine and while visiting there an old neighbor that past away came to their house, she didn’t enter the house but she was calling out my name very excitedly. I ran to the balcony in that home cos I really liked that lady and I was happy to see her. She had 2 other girls standing beside her. I told her that I would come down but then there were 2 wolves, 1 black and one Grey that caught a hold of my palms and I was afraid. The wolves just… Read more »
Running away from tsunami when everyone else was running towards it.
The wave came over me. I didn’t take a big breath until I knew the water was engulfing me. Next thing I know it’s over and gone. No destruction anywhere. Before it happened I was relieved my sons had got to see each other after them not getting in for a while. Thanks
I dreamt there was a tornado that went through my yard.. The dream started with me looking out the bathroom window, watching a tornado form in the back field. I ran to the kitchen to tell my dad. We went back to the bathroom and watched the tornado go sideways across the back of the field. We ran back to the kitchen and watched the tornado go right past the tree line (not taking anything with it) before crossing the road. It went halfway through the field before turning back at an angle. It took out a hydro pole, and… Read more »
I keep on dreaming that I m working in different hospitals and at the end when it’s time to go home I always get lost
I dreamt I was standing out in a neighborhood with a lot of people. Then in the sky came something with four heads and more than one face. Part of the body didn’t look human. I was scared but every started to run and hide. It was like I was watching what they were doing. I would see them hide and then go somewhere else. But still not scared. It was an amazing site. Then I woke up.
I dreamt everyone including myself was going through a lot and something not from earth came to me and said, “Don’t give up, it’s almost over.”
Just had a nightmare. Me and someone else was sitting in a parking lot at night- im guessing after leaving the store. We hear gun shots near. She was like, they not shooting at us, so it don’t matter. We look around, but I find them and caught eye with the shooter. He’d shot the guy in the chest and i saw the blood in his back as he fell. I calmly tell her to PEEL OFF NOW, but don’t go to the left. She start panicking and go straight, but noticed it was the wrong way in the parking… Read more »
I had a dream and I saw myself in the mirror