Posts Tagged ‘Dream Dictionary’

Dream Dictionary Update 6

I’ve added 7 new definitions to my Dream Dictionary as well as revised the existing definition for “mountain.”

The dictionary is finally over 100 definitions! (That’s including the sub-definitions, but they count too!)

Here are the new definitions:

1. Bridge: Bridges are connections. They transition you across the rivers, roads, valleys, or obstructions in your life. Bridges in your dream symbolize the way you’re moving from point A to point B. An easy example – When moving from high school to a career, the bridge in your dream might be symbolic of college. College would “bridge” this gap.
2. Drawbridge: Drawbridges protect castles. Symbolically, in a dream, they would protect yourself and your home.
3. Steel: Used symbolically in your dreams steel could represent a firm yet strong and flexible resolve to get something done. Steel is tempered for strength.
4. Path: Symbolically in your dream this is the representation of your movement through life from one person, place, or thing to another. These do not have to be tangible things. They could also be mental, emotional or spiritual. For example, the path could represent a college degree or spiritual enlightenment. It is how your body and your psyche are moving through life.
5. Psyche: The human mind, soul, and spirit. In Roman Mythology: She is the human soul or spirit often depicted as a beautiful young girl with butterfly wings. She was loved by Cupid and made immortal by Jupiter.
6. Tunnel: Symbolically in your dreams they represent ways to move through the obstacles in your life. They are also representative of ways to get inside you, as in tunneling into things.
7. River: Rivers in your dreams symbolically represent natural, moving energy. As blood flows through your veins, rivers flow across and through the earth. Water represents life. Rivers in your dreams will therefore represent large, natural, and very powerful things that are currently moving through your life. Some rivers flow lazily along while others are filled with dangerous undercurrents. In addition, rivers in your dreams can simply represent recreational fun, such as swimming, boating, and fishing.
8. Mountains: A mountain that shows up as an obstacle in your path is a huge amount of something that needs to be gone through or gotten over. An easy example of this is when people refer to a “mountain” of paperwork that needs to be done, meaning a huge amount of paperwork that needs finished before they can move forward. It could also refer to something in your life that needs “gone over” or reviewed in order to gain insight, understanding, or enlightenment. Symbolically in your dreams you are telling yourself that in your physical life you are encountering something huge that needs some kind of work to get through.

Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it.  Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.

Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.

Keep dreaming,

Michelle

Dream Dictionary Update 5

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve managed to get some new dictionary definitions together.  I wanted to try a new format this time, so here goes:

6 New Definitions added to the Dream Dictionary

1. Bed: The piece of furniture that dominates a bedroom. Beds provide a soft, comfortable place to sleep. A bed in your dream will symbolize the degree of comfort you are feeling in a particular situation. The state of the bed will also provide a clue to the situation you are dreaming about. Are you sleeping on Cloud 9(a really good bed) or a bed of nails(really bad) or something in-between?
2. Bedroom: A bedroom is the place where you sleep and where you dream. As a dream symbol it represents a personal, private place inside of you.
3. Asleep: In a dream, it means not being fully conscious or aware of something. When you find yourself asleep in your dreams it is time to ask yourself if there is anything going on in your life that you are not aware of.
4. Sleep: Sleep is a time of renewal. Our bodies and our minds are rejuvenated after a good night’s sleep. As a dream symbol a good night’s sleep would point to some type of rejuvenating aspect of your life. Sleeping poorly or unable to sleep would state the opposite, that you’re having trouble renewing yourself.
5. Awaken: When you are asleep in a dream and actually wake-up, this is a clue that you are “waking-up” to what is going on around you. This would be something that you were previously unaware of.
6. Naked: When you are naked in your dreams this means that you are exposing parts of yourself, or you feel that parts of you are being exposed. This exposure can be either mental, physical, or emotional.

Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it.  Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.

Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.

Thanks for reading!

Dream Dictionary Update 4

Here’s another round of dictionary updates for you.

There are 6 new definitions this week:

• Alive
• Dead
• Dead-end
• Death
• Life
• Work

I’m closing in on 100 definitions in the dictionary so far!

Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my Dream Dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it.  Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.

Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.

Thanks for reading!

Dream Dictionary Update 3

I’m still continuing the process of adding new definitions to my dream dictionary, and as usual, I’m highlighting the changes here.

There are 5 new definitions this week:

• Highway
• Home
• Paving
• Road
• Street

The total number of definitions in my dictionary is now over 80!

Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my Dream Dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it.  Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.

Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.

Thanks for reading!

Dream Dictionary Update 2

I’m continuing the process of adding new definitions to my dream dictionary, and as before, I wanted to highlight those changes here.

I added 8 new definitions this week:

• 1960’s
• Clues
• Cooking
• Eat
• Kitchen
• Living Room
• Party
• Well

These additions bring the total number of definitions (including sub-headings) in my dream dictionary to 76, and I have many more to add!

Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my Dream Dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it.  Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.

Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.

Thanks for reading!

Dream Dictionary Update

I’ve been adding some new definitions to my dream dictionary, so I wanted to highlight those changes here.

I added 12 new definitions and updated 1 other:

• Antiques
• Baby
• Building
• Cave – Updated from previous definition.
• Diamond
• Elephant
• Flying
• Gems
• House
• Kiss
• Sex
• Squirrel
• Stone

These additions bring the total number of definitions (including sub-headings) in my dream dictionary to 68, and I’m just getting started!

Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my dream dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it.  Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.

Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.

Thanks for reading!

Creating a Dream Dictionary

Whenever you have a dream it is an opportunity to add every symbol in it to a dream dictionary. In part 3 of Dream Journaling, I guide you through the process of creating a dream symbol chart. That chart is a useful tool for creating your dream dictionary, so have it ready. Below, I will walk you through the steps to take when trying to define your dream symbols.

Learning how to work with an unknown symbol and define what it means to you:

Using a list of symbols, possibly from your dream symbol chart, pick one that you feel won’t be too hard to define.  Then, follow the steps below.

Step #1:

Ask the standard questions:

What is “the symbol”?

What does “the symbol” mean to you personally?

At this point you may understand how you’re using the symbol in your dream and be able to write your first entry in your dictionary. If so, jump to Step #4.

If not, continue to follow the steps below.

Step #2:

Research the symbol by looking it up in a dictionary, on the internet, in a book, etc.

Step #3:

Now that you understand this symbol better than you ever have before, you can examine the way you’re using it in your current dream.

Step #4:

Write your dream dictionary entry.

Choose a notebook or your computer for this purpose.

If you use a notebook, I suggest using the spiral kind and make a separate page for each entry. In this way you can insert new pages in alphabetical order whenever you choose.

I’ll go through the steps myself to show you how simple it can be.

I’ll use Water as my example symbol.

Step #1:

What is water?

It is essential to life. You need to drink water.

Without water you will die.

Water represents a key to life.

What does water mean to you personally?

I love the water. I love to swim.

I love sparkling clean water.

Represents happy times at the pool and the beach.

I am in awe of the vastness of the ocean.

I do not like water I cannot see through.

I fear things in the water that I cannot see.

Note: I didn’t have to go through steps 2 and 3, because I knew what the meaning of water was.  Had I not known, I would have researched, which is what steps 2 and 3 are about, and then hopefully come to the same conclusions that I have below in Step #4.

Step #4:

Your dream dictionary entry could look like this:

Water: Essential to life. A key to life. Without it you will die.

Water in a dream could represent life.

Clear water could speak about being able to see the things that are moving through your life. It could represent that childlike joy of seeing something in your life with clarity.

Water that you are unable to see through could speak of the inability to see things. It could also be about your fear of things you cannot see.

Continue the Process

Follow the steps above for each symbol that appears in your dreams and you’ll eventually have a substantial dream dictionary to pull from for assistance when interpreting and analyzing your dreams.

To get a feel for what your dream dictionary will look like, I have made my personal dictionary available for you – simply click here: Dream Dictionary. You can also find it in the navigation bar at the top of every page here at Dream Talker.

As always, thanks for reading!