The database
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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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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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.