Dream symbols — dream translation guides
The images almost everyone dreams: water, falling, teeth, being chased, snakes. What each one usually tracks, and how the feeling in the dream changes it.
5 guides
Snake Dreams: The Most Culturally Split Symbol There Is
A snake means threat in one tradition and healing in another. Which reading applies to your dream depends on you, and there is a way to work it out.
Being Chased in a Dream: What You Are Running From
In a chase dream the pursuer matters far less than the running. Here is how to read one, and why turning around usually ends the series.
Teeth Falling Out in a Dream: Why This One Is So Common
One of the most reported dreams worldwide, and rarely about teeth. What the research says, what tradition says, and how to tell them apart.
Falling Dreams: Why You Jolt Awake and What It Means
The falling dream has a physical explanation and a psychological one, and they apply to different dreams. Here is how to tell which you had.
Water in Dreams: What Still, Rising and Deep Water Mean
Water is the most emotionally legible symbol in dreams. Its state — calm, moving, rising, murky — usually tracks the state of a feeling.