Dream Dictionary

Online Dream Dictionary & Encyclopedia by Tony Crisp

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Newsflash – This site is now getting a so many comments each day that I will only be able to answer a selection of them. If you are looking to understand your dream then please try this - Acting on your Dream and think about posting your dream on the Discussion Forum.

What does my dream mean? – How to explore your dream meanings:

There are several ways you can understand the meanings held in your dreams, and there are several levels. The first is an easily understood level, followed by greater depths:

You can enter a key word in the search box above. The Dream Dictionary contains interpretations on almost any type of dream subject. So if you dreamt of a flying saucer landing in a field, and aliens getting out and taking a baby, a snake, and a pregnant dog back into the saucer, you could search separately for each of these subjects in the Dream Dictionary. Find the entry for flying saucer; then the entry for dog, baby, snake, pregnant, and so on. For each entry, find further related entries by looking under “Similar Articles” on the right hand side of the page.
Each entry gives the general meaning of the dream subject, just as an encyclopedia or dictionary does for a word. Several possible meanings are given. This is because as with our speech the position of the word – the context – gives it special meanings. So a hot dog would be quite different to a black dog, dog-end or dead dog. So when you read an entry which has several different meanings, sometimes with a ‘;’ between, it simply means any one of them could apply. So you need to think about the feelings in your dream, the context, the other imagery used. Please do not fall into the trap that one reviewer made of saying that the whole dictionary is about sex. Of course sex is one meaning among many others. So use your own sense of your dream as well as any definitions given.
If you are writing in comments for a dream interpretation, please describe the dream as fully as you can, and if it is relevant add your age your life and situation.
To really explore the meaning it is useful to use the Dream Dictionary as it is designed, rather than arrive at a ‘thought out’ interpretation. To see a working example of this see ‘Dream Interpretation Example One’.
Remember too that when you are dreaming you are in a completely different environment, completely unlike waking life. To read a description of this and its possibilities see What We Need to Remember About Dreaming; Dream Yoga; ‘Dream Interpretation Example Two’ and The Magical Dream Machine.
This Online Dream Dictionary is constantly being upgraded, so please give us feedback about any dream symbols missing, and any dreams you have understood.
Unlike many online dream sites, DreamHawk has tremendous depth, with a full Dream Encyclopedia available. You can access this by searching for any word and getting a full sample of features. There is also the list ‘Similar Articles’ to explore that appears alongside any feature or symbol you search for.
If you want to learn the wonder and depth of dreams and dream interpretation, here are a series of features to explain. See Exploring Your Dreams – Steps in Understanding Your Dreams; Here is an audio example of Tony exploring a dream, not interpreting it: Dream Exploration.
Remember that a full dream dictionary is available to download with iPhone ; and as the classic Dream Dictionary book .

Comments

-Moni 2012-01-28 12:42:36

Dear Tony,

It is wonderful to see that your website is capturing a large audience as you must be proud.

Last night I had a dream of a baby platypus – it was the most beautiful little creature and this sight was very unexpected. My sons were with me when we came across the baby platypus, naturally they wanted to pick it up but I was stern as I understood the platypus could be poisonous if handled incorrectly. We just watched it with respect until it gracefully disappeared by embracing its freedom.

I thank you for your time as I understand that you are helping many.

Angel Blessings,

Moni

-Tony Crisp 2012-01-31 16:59:44

Moni – I see you are from Australia from your email address – and that you knew about the spikes on platypus.

I do not have an entry for platypus on my site, so I would love to know any associations you have with it.

I have a program the searches everything on my PC and came up with: The most ancient creature to show signs of dreaming is the duck billed platypus. As this creature has existed for 250 million years, dreaming has been around for a long time before human emergence. This need to dive beneath the rational mind exists because it is your ancient self, your platypus self, the process of life in you, that is creating the dream imagery as a primeval form of problem solving or ‘thinking’.

A young woman dreamed: “I met a platypus and I asked, `Who are you?’ The platypus answered, `I am Miss Platypus.’ I asked Miss Platypus to open her mouth, which she did. I was amazed to see a mouth full of sharp teeth. I quickly closed her mouth with my hands.”
In reality the adult platypus is without teeth. But the sharp teeth in this case represented sharp words.

Thank you for your kind words.

Tony

-Lindsey Partridge 2012-01-30 7:12:09

I was trying to figure this out on my own but i’m not sure where to begin to look. I had a dream last night of my wife having a baby shower,I don’t remember much but she was standing in front of me turned to her side holding the baby bump. she was dressed in a maternity outfit, red long sleeve blouse and a black skirt. She looked to be like 7 months pregnant. ( my wife is a male to female transgender, so this is not actually possible) I clearly remember the emotions i was feeling in the dream i was excited but also a bit sad and confused. Its really been bugging me and I’d appreciate some input. Thank you,
Lindsey

-Tony Crisp 2012-01-30 11:26:15

Lindsey – Each of us have an inner life that is quite different to our outer life. Or outer life is largely determined by our body, its gender, age and temperament. It gives rise to certain beliefs about us, such as you saying “My wife is a male to female transgender, so this is not actually possible.” By ‘actually’ you probably mean according to the limitations of our bodies.

But our inner world and our inner nature do not have those limitations, and your inner self is unlimited in its scope. So of course you can have a baby and rejoice in it. Ad you can cherish it and raise it, because within the inner world we can love in a creative way. See http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/golden-wolf/

Tony

-Katy 2012-01-31 4:23:35

Hello
, I’ve had a reoccurring dream since I was about 5 (I’m 20 now) That is very strange. I may be starting off dreaming about anything, when this elderly couple enters my dream and tells me that we have to go on a very important trip. We then get into a VW beetle car and drive into the ocean. I ask them where we are going, and they say that we are going to talk to the whales. When we are underwater, the couple turns into a skeleton couple, but its not scary to me in the dream. When I ask them why we need to talk to the whales, they tell me it’s because the whales know how to save the world. I usually wake up at about that point. The strangest part of the dream is that I’m always a little boy in it. I’m a girl. I think this dream is why I love movies like Finding Nemo and Ponyo.

-Tony Crisp 2012-01-31 9:35:46

Katy – To understand your dream fully – because the dream has obviously not been understood for 15 years – you have to realise that a dream image is like an icon on your computer screen. It just sits there until you click on it – then it becomes a different dimension and is alive.

Your dream is very important, because you have an entrance into a magical world – your inner self. Under the ocean is going deeper into yourself!! But you haven’t clicked on the surface images to really know what your dream means.

The elderly couple are the wisdom you have unconsciously that will only be known if you explore your dream. They become skeletons because they are not actually in a body, but are beings of your inner world. You are always a little boy probably because we often use a male in our dreams to show a more explorative side of you. And it remains young because it is both an open and curious mind and because it needs to actually explore. So please consider using the approaches in http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/

Tony

-Georgia Masouridis 2012-01-31 19:21:51

Hello Toni,

I need help! Never had this kind of dream before but it felt so real. I was at the hospital giving birth to a baby girl. My labour only lasted about 8-10 minutes. I didn’t have a named picked out for her yet because I wanted something different. I knew her middle name (s) would be Anna Christine, named after both grandmothers that have passed recently. I remember that I really didn’t have many people up there with me. At one point after giving birth to her, I left the hospital to ask for help in naming my daughter. I left her there until I could name her. It was such a strange dream for me. I am not married or pregnant right now so I am shocked why I would have such a dream. Can you help me out understanding it more? Thank you in advance.

-Ashley M. 2012-02-01 2:03:33

I am intrigued by your site…
“I had this dream for years after my mom left us with our father…
My dream would contain a maze(almost like the labrynth) where I was at one end and I could hear my mother at the other end…I would run and run and run through the maze but I could never find her…”
After my first son was born I found my mother in real life and then the dreams stopped…

-Tony Crisp 2012-02-02 10:30:12

Kara – Love is a wonderful thing. Like us it is a seed that grows. So I believe what your dream is showing you is that the seed of love was planted and nourished when you were 12. Then something got in the way of love’s growth. So now you are taking that tender plant and it will grow – in other words he will gradually grow also.

Often our own love never grows beyond a certain age, unless we work on it. For instance I was in my forties with children, and then fell in love and realised that I was only five years old emotionally. It was difficult feeling like that at forty, but I went through it.

Tony

-Tony Crisp 2012-02-02 11:03:45

Ashley – No wonder you kept dreaming you were in a maze. Parents – especially a mother – leaving her child without any trace of where she was is a very traumatic experience.

We have an instinctive and deeply felt drive to keep in touch with the mother. It comes from millions of years of experience that without the care and nourishment of mother you will die. See http://dreamhawk.com/pregnancy-childbirth/autobiography-of-a-premature-baby/#Needs

The maze is a wonderful representation of your tremendous need to find your mother and the inability to do so. In our inner world of dreams it felt as a compulsion to seek and the riddle of where is she.

Tony

-Kevin Metson 2012-02-02 10:57:02

Dream is very important in everyday life that’s while i want to get more familiar with its meaning.

-Crystal 2012-02-03 6:53:38

I do not have any cats and in my dream I looked at the window and saw a cat sitting there I thought no that coulnt b a cat but then it moved and I knew it was as i was getting up to tell ansil it attacked my feet bitting me I was screaming for ansil and he finally came so we thought we ran him off so he shut his bedroom door and I shut mine I was about asleep and the cat got right behind my neck and was being sweet at first but when I wanted to get up it’s like I was paralyzed the cat was butting my neck and it seemed was being nasty I finally woke up

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