Category Dream Symbols

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.

No dream type appears more consistently across the documented record of human dreaming than the chase. It has been recorded in the oldest surviving dream catalogs, theorized about by Greek philosophers, cataloged by Chinese court diviners, and studied in modern…

Flying dreams have been recorded in every human society that has kept written records of dreams — and in many that haven’t. This is not a modern neurological curiosity or a cultural metaphor that traveled with trade routes. The sensation…

The water in your dream has a quality that waking water does not. It might be impossibly clear, or thick as ink, or warm in a way that feels like being held. You may be swimming, drowning, watching from shore,…