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The dream dictionary

Every symbol here is read three ways: what the old dream traditions say (with sources), what psychologists notice, and one question worth sitting with. No fortune-telling — dreams reflect the dreamer, not the future.

Dreams about a dead loved one: what they meanWhat dreaming of a dead loved one means — the traditions' tender readings, the continuing-bonds view, and the variants: seeming well, speaking, giving a gift. Dreams about babies: what they meanWhat dreaming about a baby means — the folk, tabir, and sennik readings, what psychologists notice, and the variants: a calm baby, a crying baby, a lost baby. Dreams about bears: what they meanWhat dreaming about bears means — the folk books' two-way reading, what psychologists notice, and the variants: a charging bear, a sleeping bear, a cub. Dreams about being chased: what they meanWhat dreams about being chased mean — the old traditions, what psychologists notice, and the variants: chased but unable to run, an unknown figure, an animal. Dreams about being late: what they meanWhat dreams about being late mean — the traditions, the psychologists' overload reading, and the variants: the train that left, running and never arriving. Dreams about being naked: what they meanWhat dreams about being naked mean — tradition and psychology, plus the variants: nobody noticed, searching for clothes, and feeling fine about it. Dreams about being pregnant: what they meanWhat dreaming of being pregnant means when you're not — the traditional and psychological readings, plus giving birth and dreams where someone else is pregnant. Dreams about birds: what they meanWhat dreaming about birds means — the messenger readings of the old dream books, plus the variants: the caged bird, birdsong, a bird at the window, dark birds. Dreams about blood: what they meanWhat dreaming about blood means — kinship and vitality in the old dream books, the tabir reading of blood on clothing, and what a situation may be costing you. Dreams about cats: what they meanWhat dreaming about cats means — why the old dream books distrusted them, what psychologists notice, and the variants: an affectionate cat, a scratch, a kitten, a black cat. Dreams about dogs: what they meanWhat dreaming about dogs means — the warm readings from the folk dream books and the tabir tradition, what psychologists notice, and the variants: a friendly dog, a growling dog, a dog bite. Dreams about drowning: what they meanWhat dreaming of drowning means — the traditions' hopeful readings, what psychologists notice, and the variants: reaching shore, rescue, someone else drowning. Dreams about exams and failing tests: what they meanWhat exam dreams mean — why the dream test is unpassable by design, what the old judgment-scene readings say, and why it returns decades after school. Dreams about falling: what they meanWhat dreams about falling mean — the old dream-book readings, what psychologists notice, and the variants: waking with a jolt, falling from a height, landing. Dreams about fire: what they meanWhat dreaming about fire means — the folk and tabir readings, what psychologists notice, and the variants: hearth, spreading fire, a burning house, smoke. Dreams about fish: what they meanWhat dreaming about fish means — the tabir tradition's provision reading, the sennik's famous 'profit, or tears', and the variants: caught, escaped, many, spoiled. Dreams about flying: what they meanWhat flying dreams mean — Artemidorus' readings, what psychologists notice, and the variants: struggling to stay aloft, flying too high, familiar places below. Dreams about gold: what they meanWhat dreaming about gold means — finding it, losing it, counting it — and why the traditions famously disagree: fortune in the folk books, a warning in classical tabir, self-worth in the psychological reading. Dreams about hair falling out: what they meanWhat dreaming about hair falling out means — the strength-and-standing readings from the old dream books, the tabir tradition's merciful turn, and the variants: handfuls, cut hair, someone else's. Dreams about horses: what they meanWhat dreaming about horses means — rank and honor in the tabir tradition, fortune in the folk books, drive in psychology — plus riding, bolting, and falling off. Dreams about houses: what they meanWhat dreaming about a house means — the folk and tabir readings, Jung's famous house dream, and the variants: new rooms, childhood home, a house falling apart. Dreams about lice: what they meanWhat dreaming about lice means — money in the folk books, burdens in tabir — and the variants: many lice, combing them out, lice on someone else. Dreams about money: what they meanWhat dreaming of money means — why every dream book distrusted found money, the tabir reading of coins as words, and the variants: counting, giving, coins. Dreams about rats: what they meanWhat dreaming about rats means — the dream books' hidden thief, what psychologists notice, and the variants: rats in the pantry, one bold rat, driving them out. Dreams about scorpions: what they meanWhat dreaming about scorpions means — the tabir reading of the slanderer, the folk and sennik canons, what psychologists notice, and the variants: stung, killed, carried unknowingly. Dreams about snakes: what they meanWhat dreaming about snakes means — the readings from Artemidorus and the folk dream books, what psychologists notice, and the variants: snake bite, many snakes, a snake in the house. Dreams about spiders: what they meanWhat dreaming about spiders means — the folk books' money spider, the web's darker reading, and the variants: caught in a web, killing the spider, many spiders. Dreams about teeth falling out: what they meanWhy the teeth-falling-out dream is one of the most common on earth — the family readings from the old dream books, the confidence reading psychologists prefer, and what the details change. Dreams about toilets: what they meanWhat dreaming about toilets means — the search for a usable one, the doorless stall, the overflowing mess, and why the old books read filth as money. Dreams about water: what they meanWhat dreaming about water means — the old dream books, the tabir tradition, and psychologists on clear water, murky or rising water, floods, and crossing a river. Dreams about weddings: what they meanWhat dreaming about a wedding means — the folk inversion superstition, the tabir contract reading, what psychologists notice, and the variants: your own wedding, a stranger's, a wedding gone wrong. Dreams about wolves: what they meanWhat dreaming about wolves means — the old dream books' dark readings, what psychologists notice, and the variants: a wolf attacking, howling, the lone wolf. Dreams about your ex: what they meanWhat dreaming about your ex means — why the old dream books have no entry, what psychologists notice, and the variants: reunion, arguing, recurring dreams.