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Dream Dictionary

What do our oldest dreams mean? A gentle, myth-woven guide to the symbols that visit us in sleep — and the gods who have always watched over them.

water
Water in dreams mirrors your feelings — calm shallows or a rising tide
falling
Falling dreams often come at the edge of sleep, and speak to control —
teeth falling out
Teeth crumbling or falling out is a classic anxiety dream — about chan
flying
Flying dreams are among the sweetest — freedom, perspective, rising ab
being chased
Being chased points to something you're avoiding — a feeling, a task,
snakes
Snakes are among the richest dream symbols — danger and healing, endin
death
Dreams of death rarely foretell it — they mark endings and change: a c
fire
Fire in dreams is passion and destruction both — what warms you and wh
the moon
The moon governs the hidden and the cyclical — intuition, the tides of
the ocean
The open sea is the vast unconscious — depth, the unknown, forces far
a wolf
The wolf is instinct and the wild self — a threat, a guide, or a hunge
drowning
Drowning dreams speak of being overwhelmed — by feeling, obligation, o
a mirror
Mirrors reflect the self you're ready — or not ready — to see. What lo
being lost
Losing your way in a dream mirrors uncertainty in waking life — a deci
blood
Blood is life-force, kinship, and sacrifice — vitality spent, a wound
a door
A door is choice and threshold — an opportunity ahead, a passage betwe
a storm
A storm is conflict and release — pressure building toward a break, an
someone who has died
To dream of the dead is often a visit from your own grief, memory, and
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