WHY HAVE ANOTHER DICTIONARY OF DREAM SYMBOLS?
Dreams are images in motion. These images are ideas and feelings that tell a private story. When you begin to investigate the amazing world of dreams, it is often difficult to know how to begin. Rarely is a meaning clear to us right away. Dreams have to be decoded to be understood in waking life. Also, we may not be ready to accept the dream’s messages. For example, a dream may suggest that we forgive someone, but in our waking life we are still feeling resentment. They typically express our feelings in visual form so knowing how you feel in the dream, how others feel and how you feel upon awakening are critical to translating your dream’s message.
Several people can experience the same dream symbol but for each person, it will have a different meaning. One might then wonder how a dictionary of dream symbols can be useful. This e-Dictionary of Dream Symbols offers choices and suggestions intended to stimulate your own associations and meanings. We invite you to have your own symbols included in this dictionary. It is MY dream to have a collective, interactive and dynamic dream dictionary on the internet. Because it is the process and development through dreamwork that is the key to connecting with your own dreams and you will do that through the process of symbolism.
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HOW DO I KNOW WHICH MEANING IN THE DICTIONARY FITS FOR MY DREAM?
As you read the definitions, you will find many associations listed. No single dream symbol has only one meaning and not everyone has the same associations with it. For example, three people might dream about a dog. Joe loves dogs; Sally is afraid of them and Susan is a veterinarian. The symbol of a dog will have very different meanings for each of them.
When you look up a word, ask yourself which association fits best for you. At times, your personal meaning for that dream symbol will “jump right off the page”, or will remind you of something in your waking life. With some symbols, the opposite meaning is more fitting for a dream; therefore opposite meanings are also included.
Dreams contain layers of meaning, therefore it is beneficial to read the whole definition and be open to more than one association. The word you are looking up may have several connections for you, including its opposite.
WHAT IF A WORD IS NOT IN THE DICTIONARY?
If your dream symbol is not in the dictionary, look up its opposite. For example, if you can’t find irresponsible, look up responsible where the meanings for both are listed. If you don’t find your exact word, look up one with a similar meaning. If gorgeous is not there, for example, look up beautiful or sexy.
WHAT IF I THINK UP ANOTHER MEANING ON MY OWN?
At the end of each chapter there is a heading entitled, MY UNIQUE DREAM SYMBOLS AND ASSOCIATIONS. The questions at the end of each dream symbol entry are designed to elicit your unique associations.
WHY DOES EACH SYMBOL ENTRY END WITH A QUESTION?
Questions are a central feature of this e-dictionary, since no dream dictionary can provide everyone with all possible meanings. You are on a personal quest to interpret your dreams and the right questions can open doors. The purpose of the questions is to focus your attention in a suggestive and open-ended manner as you search for your own answers and personal associations.
The questions will further help you to:
- think in the language of metaphor, pun and other symbolic phrases,
- make connections between dream and waking life experiences,
- open your mind to the broader possibilities of a dream’s meaning, and
- trust your own intuition and interpretive skill.
HOW DO I LEARN TO ASK MY OWN QUESTIONS OF THE DREAM?
You are the scriptwriter, the producer, director, makeup artist, set designer and all the actors in your dreams! They are your creation and every aspect of them is significant. Relevant questions arise when you imagine what you might ask your creative movie-making counterparts after watching one of their very strange films. For example you might ask:
- Why those characters in that setting?
- Who else could have played that part?
- Why choose a woman of that age and dressed in that fashion to represent me?
- What action does that remind me of?
- Why did the male character say that to the woman at that moment in the plot?
- How else could that emotion have been portrayed?
- Why did the dream character express happiness when the action was clearly terrifying?
- What other meaning could that speech have?
How to use Dreams Dictionary
To search your dream description your have several options created for you.
- Use our Dreams A-Z symbols to find your dream main word
- To search by Type of Dreams select your type of dream, which brings keywords relative to your dream.
- You can use the search form placed on each page to find an information related to main words of your dream.
