TheDreamFiles

Spiders occupy a peculiar position in the human psyche: they are among the most feared creatures on Earth in waking life — arachnophobia consistently ranks as the most common specific phobia in Western populations — yet they are also among…

Fire is one of the oldest symbols in the human repertoire, which means it has accumulated more interpretive sediment than almost any other dream image — and more opportunity for lazy generalization. The dream dictionaries will tell you that fire…

The dream interpretation industry has a particular fondness for money dreams, largely because the answer it offers is the one people most want to hear: dreaming of finding money means good fortune is coming; dreaming of losing money means financial…

Type “dreaming of dogs” into any search engine and you will find confident declarations: a friendly dog means loyalty; an aggressive dog means betrayal; a black dog means depression. These interpretations are not entirely wrong, but they are applied with…

Of all the objects that appear in contemporary dreams, the phone has risen fastest. It did not exist in the dream lexicon thirty years ago and now it appears with a frequency that rivals houses, vehicles, and bodies of water.…

Pregnancy dreams are among the most symbolically dense experiences the dreaming mind produces. They arrive for people who are pregnant, people who want to be, people who fear it, and people for whom biological pregnancy is impossible. They come to…

Few dreams produce more immediate waking disturbance than the dream of an ex-partner. It arrives without warning, often years after the relationship ended, carrying an emotional vividness that seems disproportionate to the dreamer’s conscious feelings about the person. The dreamer…

Dreams of death are among the most disturbing dream experiences. They are also almost never about literal death.

The house is one of the most commonly reported dream settings.

The snake is one of the most commonly reported dream symbols worldwide.