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Dream meanings
Look up what you dreamt and read what is actually known about it. Every page here shows its working, where the interpretation came from, and whether that source is a sleep laboratory, a psychologist, a centuries-old tradition, or simply a great many people reporting the same thing.
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Symbols
Objects and elements that recur across dream reports: the snake, the mirror, the locked door, the water you cannot see the bottom of.
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Animals
The creatures people actually dream about: the dog, the cat, the bird at the window, the horse, the thing in the water, the swarm.
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People
The figures who appear in dreams: family, exes, strangers, the dead, and the people whose faces you cannot make out.
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Places
Dream settings. The childhood home, the school you left decades ago, the corridor with no end, the building that does not exist.
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Actions
What you were doing, or what was being done to you, running, hiding, flying, falling, drowning, searching, being watched.
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Emotions
The feeling the dream left behind: fear, shame, grief, peace, desire, wonder, helplessness.
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Events
Things that happen in the dream: a wedding, a funeral, an exam, an accident, a reunion, a betrayal.
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Colours
Red, black, white, gold and the rest: what the reports actually contain, and why the answer changes completely depending on where you grew up.
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Numbers
Three, seven, twelve, thirteen and the others that carry real weight, plus the reason numbers behave so strangely in dreams.
The two archives
Shared dream figures
Figures that unrelated people report meeting in their sleep. Held to a strict evidence standard. Every page shows how many independent reports it rests on, and says so plainly when that number is small.
The Nocturnal BestiaryDream CreaturesFigures that unrelated people report meeting in their sleep: the shadow watcher, the hat-wearing man, the presence sitting on the chest.The Luminous ArchiveDream ProtectorsThe other half of the same phenomenon: the figures people report being helped, guided, warned or rescued by.
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Almost everyone dreams every night. Remembering is a separate skill, and it is the most trainable thing on this site.
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What dream dictionaries get wrong
"Dreaming of snakes means betrayal." Every version of that sentence is doing the same thing wrong, and it has been criticised since the second century.
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Falling, being chased, losing teeth: the most common dreams, and what can honestly be said
A handful of dream themes turn up everywhere, across decades and cultures. That is a real finding. What it means is a much weaker claim than most sites admit.