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
I have dreams of events before they happen. All the women in my family experience this. My grandma had a dream once where she was walking down the street, hand in hand with her son (my uncle but in the dream he was 5). She wasn’t really paying attention to where they were going. She looked up and saw this man standing in this shop window just watching them walk by. Her son wanted to go say hi to the man but my grandma warned him of stranger danger and tried to pull him along. My uncle wouldn’t listen and… Read more »
I’ve had this one recurring dream for years now, it’s that only thing I dream about. In my dream, I ‘wake up’ but not really because everything is black and kinda misty. It’s like I’m in the middle of this large black cloud just floating above everything. I can kinda sense that there are objects below me but I still can’t see anything. I look around and when I turn there’s this man just standing behind me quietly. I know he’s a man but I never fully see him, it’s like he’s stuck in the corner of my eye, just… Read more »
Lately I’ve had a number of dreams. One of them was about casting out demons on a number of people and several items including cars. Another one was that I had participated in a competition and won huge sums of money, as I was sharing my winnings i was involved in a gun shoot out with the party that gave me the money. Fortunately in both dreams, I woke up mid dream. First, I somewhat managed to cast out some demons after going on my knees with the possessed and after proclaiming the name of Jesus and God, I woke… Read more »
I dreamt I couldn’t find my 4 year old at the airport. There were so many people walking around and no matter what I did, he was no where to be found. I was crying in my dream. I could’ve died in my sleep from a broken heart. Needless to say the dream felt so real I woke up bawling in a panic. Thank God when i woke up, he was tight here sleeping next to me. What does this dream mean?
My dream starts with me in a hospital bed and a bunch of mostly faceless people surround me they tell me i got into a very serious accident and that id have to be in the hopsital for a few weeks to fully recover. Then i close my eyes and im in a car and somones driving me to the hospital and theres a tgi fridays and some other random building across the street from the hospital. Then I close my eyes again and im back in the hospital with a man asking me if i want anything from the… Read more »
I dreamed I was in a accident which made my brain explode I knew I was dying. I tried to push myself into not feeling the death then I waited to see if it was over. I felt panicked that I would not yet be prepared for this new life. Then I began I feel this light and freedom. I wasn’t afraid anymore..
I then opened my eyes and saw I was not dead.
I had a dream that I was suspended in a space above a city center where I could see every building in the city. Clouds were swirling everywhere around me and above me as I looked up. Massive waves then came from my right and engulfed the city. I looked right above me in the center of the sky and swirling clouds. There was a solar eclipse. Upon closer inspection, the solar eclipse had a spinning yin yang in it. I have no idea what It means but I’m suspecting it was my internal energies telling me something about needing… Read more »
I’ve had this dream twice now long enough to kinda see something, other times I wake up before anything happens. I’m falling asleep in my dream above me is an open air sky light and I see a set of large eyes just hidden away from my direct sight. I wake up and see them in the corner of my vision. I just know instinctively that they are dangerous that they are breaking in and causing harm. Ive managed to run outside enough to see some kind of large creature run silently out of sight on all fours. I can… Read more »
I’ve had a couple of different dreams lately the last few have been about 2 worlds one of peace and serenity, light all around, very tall people talking through thought only and the other was the world we live in Another I walked out from a dark side just pure darkness into what looked like the desert there was a lady far away meditating, I remember pinks and purples and a bright sky it just felt like peace and joy and love A third dream was again between our world and a light mystical world but when I was in… Read more »
One time I had a dream about beimg at school and there was heavy rain outside, and it just kept going, and going, it wouldn’t stop, Soon the flooding was two stories tall, so all of us had to stay at school for a week, But then the teachers/ staff started stabbing almost every student they could see, and some of them like the school nurse had their own custom weapons (the school nurse’s weapon was a giant syringe, and since confused students would go to the nurse for help after they got stabbed, she’d inject them with some sort… Read more »
I was in my house, enjoying a storm with lots of lightning but no thunder. Suddenly the lightning hit a door on the house right where I was sitting. (My mother always made us ait in a hallway away from windows and electrical outlets). It blew the door off the house.
I was in an unfamiliar house with multiple rooms. Each room was very cluttered. One room was my room and there were many, many people walking through on a tour…to look at window coverings…but they were looking through my stuff and I got mad. So I ordered them to get out and the tour was over. The room had two door openings. I tried to shut the doors to keep the people out but there were suddenly no doors. I tried to find the proper doors…there were multiple sizes in the room, but they were all the wrong size. And… Read more »
I woke up this morning with the feeling that my ex husband was dead. This caused me no feelings of sadness or happiness. We do not have any kind of relationship and have been separated/divorced for around 4 years. During the night, I had a very ordinary dream where I was making plans with my adult sons (whom I share with my ex husband). In this dream, we were not discussing their father, but there was this general sense of understanding that their father was dead. Not recently dead. The plans we were making had nothing to do with his… Read more »
The beginning of my dream I can’t remember all to well but I remember traffic on a narrow road leading to a mountain. A tall mountain with the sun behind it along this mountain heading to the top in a straight line is a road this road is only 2 lanes with no gaurd rails and from the bottom you can not see the top. We get to the base of the mountain and it’s a small town and we stop to eat at a restaurant. I say we because I’m not alone as we go to sit down at… Read more »
I dreamt I was walking down a street with a canopy of green trees from either side, lots of leaves were on the edges of the street, on the right side where I was walking were 13 different sized green & yellow snakes sailing up & down, I wasn’t scared of them & they completely ignored me, I walked towards the end of the street & saw 3 flat snakes, 10 cm in height, (flat from top to bottom) they were pitch black with a pretty bright white pattern, when I turned around the 2 bigger ones started chasing me,… Read more »
Just had a dream where I arrived at a building and went inside. After some small interaction I can’t remember, I came into an auditorium with a bunch of people sitting in the rows. When I approached to take my seat I looked into their faces, and saw that they all had the same face, that of a young and pretty woman with dark hair and a completely stoic expression staring back at me. I felt like she/they were witches. Then, they all came and surrounded me and started to chant a song/spell onto me, binding me into place so… Read more »
I had a dream last night that I was walking to get somewhere. There were many busy people, there were cars, there were fences to climb, there was no order or straight path. It was just our chaos. I just kept moving forward. But on one of these turn over a fence in ended up on a path to cross a very long bridge. I thought about it for a moment. How nice it would be to enjoy a walk over the water. But the bridge was very long. I turned back. I was afraid…afraid it would take too long,… Read more »
I had a dream last night. I was at a dinner table with some people I didnot know. Suddenly a big blue spider came down from the ceiling and hovered there, then it dropped down and ran towards me. This big Blue spider had a triangle face with 3 eyes. I became scared as it approached me because it was the size of an owl. Suddenly I was laying down in bed and I threw the bedcovers off and the spider fell onto the floor. Later in my dream I saw the spider on a hallway table it was obviously… Read more »
I’ve recently been assaulted in a public area by a local business owner. My fiance saved me from the attacker. The police say that because did a form of self defense before he officially hit me – that I am at fault. Really terrible ordeal. I’m recovering from my injuries currently. I had a dream last night about walking around a camp area with my fiance and someone else. They walked a little ways ahead and I was struggling to keep up, only to be cut off by 3 wolves in my path. I was terrified and I tried to… Read more »
I had a terrible horrific nightmare last night that my best friend, Matt and I were attending some weird school that he and I never even went too he asked to be excused from class so I followed him cause he seemed depressed when he got to the nurses office to where I found him restrained to to a bed there looking extremely malnourished and he was crying and and he had started tightening his leg restrains to the point his legs came apart causing me to cry and begging him to stop harming himself. I woke up from the… Read more »