The database
Two dreams together
Two symbols in one dream is the ordinary shape of a real dream report. These are the pairs where the combination changes the reading rather than simply adding one to another.
12 pairings
Each is written. There is no page for every possible combination, and there is not going to be: at 399 records that would be 79,401 pages assembled out of pages that already exist, which is the thing this site argues against everywhere else.
- Snakes and being chased
Two of the most reported dreams there are, and the combination is more informative than either alone: both are dreams about the moment before something happens, and neither reports the something.
- Teeth and not being able to speak
The most searched dream in the world alongside the one with the best physical explanation. Where they occur together, the mouth is doing two things at once and the second one is checkable.
- A dead relative and a funeral
The two grief records, and the pairing exists to say something neither says alone: a funeral in a dream is very often not the funeral that happened.
- Being chased and hiding
The pair that shows what the chase dream is actually made of. Hiding never works, and the reports say why: the concealment thins while the dreamer watches it.
- A door and a key
The most traditional pairing in dream interpretation and the one where the reports least support the tradition. The key is usually present. It is the mechanism that fails.
- An exam and the school you went to
The original anxiety dream, still reported by people forty years past their last exam, and the pairing is what makes the age pattern visible.
- Being late for a train
One of the most commonly reported dreams there is, and the pairing has a feature neither record carries alone: the obstacles compound rather than repeat.
- Your mother and the house you grew up in
The most reported setting in the database and the most reported person, and they arrive together because dreams appear to store people with their period attached.
- A car crash
A high-demand pairing where the most useful thing to say is about the point of view: dreamers frequently report watching it rather than being in it.
- A book you cannot read and glasses that do not help
The pairing that explains itself. Two records about failing to see detail, and together they make the mechanism impossible to miss.
- A forest and the sense of being watched
The most consistent eerie pairing in the database, and the reports agree on the part that matters: nothing ever appears.
- Being lost on a road that has changed
The pairing that produces the specific dismay dreamers find hardest to describe: everything is recognisable and none of it is usable.