Dream Dictionary
A dictionary from the Spellbook — symbols A–Z, and themes from Alphabet through Wedding.
The symbol list and themes follow the Dream Moods A–Z dictionary and theme pages. The readings here are written for the Spellbook. A symbol is a reading, not a prediction.
B
B
The letter B plays on being, or on leaving a matter alone.
Baboon
A baboon asks you to say what you feel in a straight line. The manner may be off, and a white one means feeling has gone flat.
Baby
A baby is innocence and a beginning, or a tender part of you that needs care. Neglected, weeping, or no longer alive, it means potential is ignored or something that was yours has ended.
Baby Bottle
This bottle is reliance on other people. Drinking from it means you are still emotionally young.
Baby Carriage
A carriage for an infant is a wish for family. Empty, it is sadness, an unmet goal, or the younger self that still needs tending.
Baby Clothes
Tiny garments mean you are speaking more quietly than usual. They can also be habits you have already outgrown.
Baby Food
Food made for an infant means a situation needs care. Being fed it means you are pushed to learn again what you already know.
Baby Shower
A gathering for a new child welcomes a chance to begin again, with more trust in life.
Babysitter
Watching a child, or calling someone else to do it, means the younger part of you needs attention.
Bachelor
An unmarried man is a search for freedom in love. Being one points to a shaky sense of self inside a bond, or to your masculine side.
Back
Your back is stance, strength, and the load you carry, including pressure from someone else. Bare, it hides a secret; turned away from you, it is hurt born of envy.
Back-biting
Speaking against someone in secret warns that this course will injure a person. Hearing it aimed at you points to trouble in the family.
Backbone
See also Spine.
Backdoor
A rear door means the answer is not the obvious one. You may also be hunting for a shortcut.
Backflips
Turning backward through the air means you go too far to please someone, and the effort feels unseen.
See also Cartwheels.
Backgammon
This board game brings an unwelcome guest. Losing at it is poor luck in love and a habit of choosing the wrong people.
Background
See also Landscape.
Backpack
A pack on your shoulders is decisions and duties that have grown heavy.
Backpacking
Traveling with only what you carry is self-reliance, and a look back at hardships already cleared.
Backseat
The rear seat means other people are steering your life. Someone else sitting there means their fate is in your hands.
Backside
See also Buttocks.
Backstab
Striking from behind calls your own character into question. Receiving it is insecurity, a belief that someone means harm while life is already crowded.
Backstage
Behind the curtain is a short-lived opening you should use. It can also be a part of you that stays hidden, or a problem that needs a fresh angle.
Backstroke
This stroke means feelings are admitted, yet not met face to face.
Backward
Moving in reverse means the current course works against you, or that you should retreat. Falling that way can mean a bad choice was stopped in time.
Backyard
The yard behind the house is childhood memory, a secret, or something you have stopped noticing. Its condition shows how well the parts of life are kept.
Bacon
This meat is the basic supply of living, or the work that earns a wage. Spoiled, it marks a situation that should stay forbidden.
Bad
Feeling this way means you are off center, even small in your own eyes.
Bad Breath
Sour breath means pause before you speak, so the words do not wound anyone.
Badge
A badge recognizes your standing. It can also be a wish to belong.
Badger
This animal is persistence and a final win over opponents. The name can also mean someone with power will not stop bothering you.
Badminton
The shuttle says decide quickly, or the opening will pass.
Bag
What you carry in a sack is responsibility. Torn or stuffed with junk, worry has grown too heavy, and the phrase can name an older person.
Bagel
The ring of bread means a key piece of life is missing. It can also be sexual appetite.
Baggage
Luggage is old feeling that holds you back. It can also stand for who you think you are.
Baggage Claim
The carousel where bags return is a loss of identity: you are unsure who you are or want to become.
Baggage Scanner
A scan of your luggage puts identity under inspection. You may also feel exposed, with little privacy left.
Bagpipe
The pipes are strength, and a sense that the struggle can be gotten through.
Bail
Posting this payment means it is all right to accept help in business.
Bailiff
This officer means you crossed a line and must answer for it. An arrest by one questions your ethics at work.
Bait
The lure means you are fishing for praise or for a bargain, or trying to draw someone closer.
Bake-house
A place where bread is made in bulk warns of danger and pitfalls in the day.
Bakery
A shop of bread and sweets is richness, and a future that feels satisfying.
Baking
At the oven you are making things happen from scratch. Odd mixtures mean two unlike matters may still work together.
Balaclava
The mask hides a painful secret that is getting hard to keep, or a wish to stay unnamed. On someone else it is a feared side of you.
Balance
Losing your footing means the options in front of you will not weigh cleanly.
Balance Beam
The narrow beam demands your full attention. It can also be the several parts of life you are trying to hold level.
Balcony
Up on this ledge you want to be seen and to rise in status. Clean, others look up to you; worn, the public face needs repair.
Bald
Losing hair is low regard for yourself or worry about age. It can also be humility and a willingness to be fully seen.
See also Hair.
Ball
Round and whole, this object is completeness, the inner child, or courage. Sending it rolling means put the plan in motion; a formal dance celebrates life as it is.
Ball Pit
A pit of colored spheres is joy and a nudge toward spontaneity. Climbing in means a bond or a goal needs your whole effort.
Ballerina
Dancing on pointe, you move through obstacles with ease, though the image also holds frailty and a harsh standard of beauty. Someone you know in the role is avoiding a direct talk.
Ballet
Watching the dance is balance and cooperation. The soft shoes are poise and ease with other people.
Ballet Shoes
These shoes ask you to handle a problem with care and a clear decision. They can also mean you are level-headed.
Balloon
Floating spheres are fading hopes in love, or an opinion of yourself that has swollen. One that pops is a failed aim or pressure grown too great; rising in a basket of hot air asks you out of a low mood.
Ballot
A voting slip is a decision still waiting. Your name on it is a search for support.
Ballroom
The great room is celebration and a good time. It can also be a part of life you should speak about more openly.
Ballroom Dancing
Partnered dancing of this formal kind is success, and a willingness to give the effort everything.
Baloney
See also Bologna.
Bamboo
The cane is strength that bends and returns, and fair dealing between people. Soft or rotting, daily life is out of balance.
Bananas
This curved fruit is masculine sexuality held in check. Eating it means hard work brings little gain; the skin underfoot warns of a slip that may not be reversible.
Band
Musicians together mean belonging. The word can also ask you to pull in the same direction as others.
Bandages
Wrappings mean an emotional wound you are covering, and their place on the body is a clue. Thrown at you, someone causes pain while you keep a calm face.
Bandana
The cloth asks you to look at the problem more coolly and think the options through.
Bandit
A masked thief is raw, primitive lust.
Banish
See also Exile.
Banjo
Playing this stringed instrument is time with friends worth keeping. Hearing it is a happy occasion.
Bank
The vaulted hall of money is a wish to feel financially safe, sometimes a fear larger than the facts. Taking from it by force spends inner resources, or shows money owed to you is late.
See also Vault.
Banker
The person behind the counter means money trouble you are too proud to share, and a loss of control.
Bankrupt
Financial collapse means protect what you have left. You may be drained, low in mood, or insecure.
Banquet
The long table means you are starved for feeling and looking for stimulation.
See also Feast.
Banyan
This spreading tree is shelter, and a link between spiritual life and ordinary ground.
Baptism
A child receiving the rite is a new attitude toward life and other people. Receiving it yourself washes guilt and lets an older self give way.
Bar
A public counter of drinks is escape into ease, or a wish to be accepted, and the word can mean you feel shut out. A metal rod is inner strength, or defiance.
See also Prison.
Bar Mitzvah / Bat Mitzvah
This coming-of-age rite is the passage into adult duty, moral sense, and hope.
Barbarian
The wild fighter is the rough, instinctive side of you, perhaps too brash. Sexuality can live in the same image.
Barbecue
Cooking outdoors over coals is a small change in the day. Doing the cooking yourself is ease and time spent together.
Barbed Wire
The twisted wire is difficulty getting a point across. Caught in it, you feel trapped inside a relationship.
Barber
See also Hairdresser.
Barber's Pole
The striped pole means you are considering a change. It can also be a scrap of childhood nostalgia.
Barbie Doll
The fashion doll is a standard you fear you cannot meet. It can also be a wish to slip back into a simpler childhood.
Barcode
Stripes that a machine can read mean ease and automation. They can also be a bond that feels impersonal, leaving you alienated.
Bareback
Riding without a saddle means you can hold several hard tasks at once. You also give a project or a bond your full effort.
Barefoot
Unshod feet are a playful, easy mind. They can also mean poverty, low confidence, or being unready for what is ahead.
Bargain
Haggling means you are valued too cheaply, or that a project is getting less effort than it needs. Notice what is being traded.
Baritone
A voice in that low register is deceit, so listen closely to the words.
Bark
The sound from a dog means grumpiness is annoying people, or that you give orders instead of asking. On a tree, the outer layer is a thick skin that keeps others at a distance.
Barley
This grain is health, progress, and satisfaction with how life is going.
Barn
The farm building holds feelings you keep below awareness, including urges you will not act on.
Barnacles
Clinging shells mean a situation must be faced before it slips out of control.
Barometer
The gauge shows your inner weather and whether you are managing it.
Barracks
Living in shared military quarters means the situation is too tight. Some change is due.
Barrel
An empty cask is need and emotional emptiness; what sits inside it matters. Stopping it up means hold on to what you have, because status feels shaky.
Barrette
A clip in the hair means a fresh notion can get in, or that you are ready to show a different self.
Barricade
See also Barrier.
Barrier
What blocks the way is an obstacle to emotional growth, or resistance to change.
Barrister
The lawyer in the white wig is wisdom, and a search for guidance while a large decision is pending.
Bartender
Serving drinks means you want out from under daily demands. The role can also mean you are barring yourself from something.
Baseball
Watching the game is a settled mind, while playing it means set a long aim and stop drifting, and the bases can stand for sexual approach. A field still under construction is intimacy left unresolved.
Baseball Bat
The club in your hands is drive and motivation. It can name an older woman, carry a sexual meaning, or, if broken, a failure after full effort.
Basement
The lowest floor is intuition, basic appetite, and what you have stored because you would not deal with it. Mess there is confusion; the word can also mean you feel brought low.
Basil
The herb is kindness, sweetness, and deep love.
Basin
See also Bathtubs.
Basket
A woven holder is the body and the womb, and also what you refuse to put down. Full, it is abundance and fertility.
Basketball
Playing this court game is teamwork: a shared aim will need other people, and you may have to ask. The ball itself says make the first move and keep the goal in focus.
See also Dunk.
Bass
Playing the low line is the rhythm of life. Singing it is a solid base for what comes next.
Bass Guitar
Hearing the low guitar is harmony. Playing it means your talent feels overlooked.
Bastard
Being called this means love has to be given before it can be received.
Basting
Spooning juices over meat means you want more flavor and life in ordinary days.
Bath
Washing yourself clears both the outer day and old opinions, and can point toward forgiveness. Washing someone else seeks a closer bond and shows a caring side.
Bathing Suit
Swimwear leaves you feeling exposed. Comfort in it is ease; discomfort is shaky confidence, much like being caught undressed at the wrong time.
Bathrobe
The robe after washing is privacy and personal need. It also touches intimate situations and whether you can face them.
Bathroom
This room is instinct and the need to release what you have been holding, or a cleansing of mood. A public one with no privacy means other people come before you, and you fear being judged for what you let go.
See also Urination.
Bathtubs
Soaking here is renewal and a wish to set burdens down, or a mood for pleasure. Drowning in the water means you are not ready to face buried feeling and should go more slowly.
Batman
The masked hero says use your wits and stop looking for shortcuts, because power you already have is unused. A wrong may also need to be set right.
Baton
The stick you toss is a dramatic need to be seen and to express yourself. A police version is male sexuality or power.
Bats
The night flier is annoyance, or unrealized potential and habits that no longer fit the direction you are growing. A pale one can mean a death in the family; one that drinks is a person draining your confidence.
Battery
The cell is vitality. Dead, you are emotionally spent.
Batting
Swinging at the pitch is confrontation, and the moment to accept what is yours to do.
Batting Cage
Inside the netted lane, someone or something is keeping anger from coming all the way out.
Battle
A fight on this scale means you are overworked and split between reason and impulse. Winning brings balance; losing means the present circumstances still hold you.
Battlefield
The ground of the fight is a major conflict in waking life: a new problem, situation, or bond you have to meet.
Battleship
The guessing game is a hit-or-miss way of living. Decisions need more deliberate aim.
Bay
The sheltered water is understanding, something growing clearer. The phrase can also mean you are keeping a person at a distance.
Bay Tree
This tree is long life, success, and victory. In your garden it is protection, a refuge from feeling.
Bay Window
The projecting window is an attempt to see a wider view.
Bayonet
The blade fixed to a rifle says stand for what you believe and do not quit.
BB Gun
The small gun is a threat you have not noticed. Guard is down where vigilance is needed.
Beach
Sand meeting water is reason beside unsteady feeling, a crossing between practical life and the spirit. Looking seaward is change you cannot yet name; resting there is a calmer stretch ahead.
Beach Ball
Play with this light sphere is a carefree feeling.
See also Ball.
Beach House
A house by the shore says take time to rest. It can also mean an emotional issue is ready to be faced.
Beads
Small round ornaments mean you put other people's needs first, or chase perfection. Stringing them lays ground for recognition; counting them is calm pleasure.
Beak
A bird's bill is meddling where you have no business. Stuck at the neck, it means gossip has gone too far.
Beaker
The lab glass asks you to join separate parts of life. It can also be a call to look at a problem with cooler logic.
Bean
These seeds tie you to roots, community, and fertility. Picking them up is thrift, a cue to watch your money.
Beanbag
Tossing the small stuffed sack is a careless, easy attitude.
Beanbag Chair
Sitting in the soft chair means setbacks are temporary and you are not fully settled.
Beanie Baby
The plush toy means you adapt to most situations. Its animal or name may hide a pun.
Bear
The large animal is strength, renewal, and a season of looking inward. One that chases you is anger and a bond or obstacle that has you trapped; the word can also mean bare your feelings or simply endure.
Bear Trap
The steel jaws are an obstacle that threatens your freedom and well-being.
Beard
A long growth of facial hair is age and wisdom, while growing one you lack in life hides true feeling and removing one you have wants something said clearly. On a woman it is a wish to be more assertive.
Beast
The creature is foolishness, or a fear you know about and still will not face. Faceless ones are a situation sensed but refused.
Beating
Being struck means character needs a real change, or that someone is pushing past your limit. Doing the striking forces your views onto others.
Beautiful
Extraordinary good looks, in you or in someone else, are traits you have come to value. Do not sell yourself short.
Beauty Contest
See also Pageant.
Beauty Mask
The cosmetic covering is a wish to hide flaws. On someone else, they are straining to match an outside standard.
Beauty Parlor
See also Salon.
Beaver
The dam-builder is energy and output. Ideas need work if they are going to become real.
Bed
The place you sleep is private self and sexuality: your own, neatly kept, is safety, while a strange one shows the result of choices already made. Searching for one means intimacy is hard to admit.
Bed And Breakfast
Staying where breakfast is included means you want basic needs met and some stability.
Bed Wetting
Wetting the sheets is a loss of control and a pile of anxiety, including fear you will be rejected for what you believe. Sexuality can be part of the worry.
Bedbugs
These insects in the mattress mean a relationship annoys you, and you have not said so.
Bedfellows
Going to sleep beside a stranger means friendships are forming too fast. Beside someone you are not intimate with, it is a partnership, or a trait you need to accept.
Bedpan
The pan at the bedside means an emotional hurt needs time, and you feel cut off from your own body.
Bedridden
Stuck in bed, you are ignorant of the facts or refusing them.
Bedroom
This private room is what you keep hidden, including sexuality. The one from childhood means a present feeling has woken an old secret.
Bedspread
The cover on the mattress is open sexuality and outward beauty. Its pattern may show what you want.
Bee
The insect at the hive is luck, harmony, and work that ends sweetly, or a life already buzzing. A sting is a wounding remark; the queen is a dominant woman.
Bee Pollen
Eating the gathered dust means you want a more natural way to look after your well-being.
Beech
This tree is intellect and a lesson worth hearing. It can also stand for death.
Beef
The meat is animal energy. The word can also be a grudge, and a wish to pick a fight.
Beehive
The colony's home is opportunity and shared labor, so do not let it slip. Empty or destroyed, love and money take a loss.
Beekeeper
Tending the hives means work and social life need a balance. The job can also be a risky situation that wants caution.
Beeper
See also Pager.
Beer
The drink is ease, a moment free of worry, or your social life.
See also Alcohol.
Beer Bong
Funneling the drink is a wish to escape stress, and a hard-party habit that does not handle feeling well.
Bees
A swarm is luck and industry, with sweet results if the work continues, or a life already full of noise. The queen is a dominant woman; a sting is a remark that wounded you.
Beetle
The hard-shelled insect is a destructive influence, or values that feel compromised. Crawling all over you, small irritations are piling up.
Beets
The red root is success, the benefit of work already done.
Beg
Asking for what you lack is unhappiness with the present, and a fear of admitting you need help.
Beggar
Living by asking is insecurity and a sense you do not deserve much. Helping one means hardships can be gotten past; the old saying warns against being too choosy.
Begin
Starting at last means delay has already wasted time. The plan needs to move.
Behead
Losing the head, yours or another's, is a decision you regret because you would not see the truth. A serpent treated this way means a fear is still being refused.
Behind
Standing at someone's rear is support you are offering, or feeling just now rising. Left there yourself, you fear you do not fit or cannot keep up; leaving something there means the past can be released.
Beige
This pale tone is the basics, reduced to what is essential. It can also be a neutral stance.
Belch
See also Burp.
Believing
If nobody credits your story, confidence is thin and your own judgment is in doubt.
Bell
A ringing sound is a warning or the start of something new. If it will not stop, anxiety is extreme; silver keeps harm off, gold wants someone's full attention.
Bell Pepper
The hollow vegetable is tenacity and a fight that can turn for the better. Green is fresh energy, red is anger behind the defense, yellow is energy used with care.
Bellhop
Carrying other people's bags means their burdens are on you. Seeing the uniformed carrier means you are pushing your own problems onto them.
Bellow
The tool that feeds a fire is hard work. Nothing here arrives easily.
Belly
The midsection is where ideas and buried feeling move toward awareness, so trust the gut. A pregnant swell means emotion is about to surface; a ring there ties you to your mother.
Belly Dancer
Dancing this way means you are at ease in your body and in touch with sensuality. Watching it is an easy, down-to-earth nature.
Below
What sits lower than you means you are looking down on people or on a situation. It can also be a descent into what lies under awareness.
Belt
Around the waist, energy feels constricted and reason argues with instinct. The strap can also be discipline or punishment.
Bench
The seat you linger on is delay, and a habit of waiting instead of starting.
Bending
Folding at the waist is the ability to adapt. Backward, you go too far to please; forward, you are eager to begin.
Bereavement
Grief in the dream is sadness you have not let out. If a real loss is underway, the image is part of coping.
Beret
The soft cap is military life, peace or war depending on the feeling, and color adds meaning. Green or red points to a strategy that succeeds.
Berries
Small fruit means a fulfilling bond or experience is coming. Poisonous ones mean a person or influence could turn harmful.
Beryl
The pale gem is hope and happiness.
Best Man
Standing beside the couple, you are the right person for the work, or you are becoming better. A woman in the role is stepping past a narrow idea of who may lead.
Bestiality
Intimacy with an animal is raw appetite and lust. It can also mean you are testing acts that still feel uncomfortable.
Bet
Wagering means a risk in love or work may be unwise. Go carefully.
Betrayal
Being betrayed names suspicion about a person or a commitment, often while you already feel insecure. It can also be feeling sorry for yourself.
Betta Fish
The fighting fish means a buried thought is near the surface. Two of them are issues in conflict.
Beverage
What you drink is the ability to take in a new idea, a thirst for knowledge. The kind of drink adds detail.
Bewilderment
Confusion in the dream is being stuck between two views, unable to choose. It often matches a waking shock.
Bible
The sacred book is truth, comfort, and the beliefs you stand on. A particular verse may be advice; buying a copy means you are trying to justify what you did.
Bicycle
Two wheels ask for balance between work and pleasure. Trouble riding is anxiety about managing alone; a color you remember may belong to a childhood season.
Bier
The stand that carries a coffin is a loss.
Big
Larger than life, a person or thing is an inflated view, or a wish to dominate. A huge figure is authority.
Big Bird
The tall yellow bird is friendship, curiosity, and sometimes a childhood lesson coming back.
Bigamy
Two marriages at once mean you cannot choose between options. Marrying someone who already has a spouse means a person close to you is deceiving you.
Bigfoot
The giant figure is the unknown, or a self you are misrepresenting. The oversized truck is control of your path, with nobody allowed to block the goal.
Bikini
The two-piece suit leaves you emotionally unprotected, or calls back youth and a surface desire.
Bile
This bitter fluid is a moody, irritable stretch. Dark is sadness; yellow is anger.
Billboard
The large sign is a message on the way to a goal. Read what it actually says.
Billfold
See also Wallet.
Billiards
The table game is a competitive streak that should win and lose with grace. It can also mean a waking problem needs harder focus.
Billionaire
Vast wealth is desire, a spur to work harder, or a hole where something is missing.
Bills
Paper demanding payment means money is occupying your mind. Receiving one means a past act is now costing you.
Binder
The folder is what you need to track, including feelings overlooked by day. It can also mean qualities that should be joined, or duties you owe.
Bingo
The numbered game is a sudden revelation. Something in the dream is worth a close look.
Binoculars
Looking through the paired lenses means a situation needs a long, careful evaluation before you choose.
Bioluminescence
Living light in the dark is a wish to be noticed, or a cue to step out and be seen.
Birch
This pale tree is guilt and self-punishment.
Bird
Winged creatures are hopes, and lively ones are joy and a lighter spirit. Dead or attacking, they are disappointment or too many pulls at once; eggs are money, a nest is refuge.
Bird of Paradise
The bright bird is a hard, cold exterior that needs to open to love. It can also mean it is time to rest.
Bird's Eye View
Seeing from far above means you have the situation in hand, or that the whole picture matters more than one piece.
Birdbath
The shallow basin for birds is a spiritual cleansing and a fresh phase.
Birdcage
Bars around a bird are freedom lost, and expression that cannot get out.
Birdhouse
The little house is spring and a new start. It can also be your own home as a spiritual shelter.
Birdseed
Feeding the flock nourishes a higher, spiritual quality, or shows effort paid too little. Scattered on the ground, business growth is small.
Birth
Bringing a child into the world is a new idea, attitude, or event, and it can echo real hope or worry about labor. Too soon, the project went out unfinished; a death in the scene is one chapter closing as another opens.
See also Pregnant.
Birth Control
See also Contraceptive.
Birthday
The anniversary of your birth is acceptance of who you are, or fear of aging. Forgotten, you feel overlooked; a miserable one is regret.
Birthday Cake
The cake means a dear wish can come true, and that you are willing to share your life. Candles are a hopeful outlook.
Birthday Card
Giving or receiving the card is remembrance. Shopping for them without end means a date you are afraid to forget.
Birthmark
A mark you were born with reminds you of something you must do, or must not do again. It is a stain you still carry.
Bisexual
If this is not how you live while awake, the dream is desire held back, or confusion about sexuality.
Bison
See also Buffalo.
Bites
A wound from teeth warns of someone nearby who could harm you in body or in money. Biting, or being bitten, is vulnerability, too much taken on, or pressure you are putting on other people.
Bitter
A harsh taste means some condition has become hard to tolerate. Guilt may be mixed in.
Black
This color is the unknown, danger, mourning, or a lack of support, and it invites a deeper look at yourself. It can also be open potential; with white, it asks for a cooler decision, or names a low mood.
Black Cat
The dark feline is fear of trusting intuition, often misread as bad luck. If it attacks, the message from instinct can no longer be ignored.
Black Eye
The bruised eye is a conflict still unresolved. Giving one means you will not accept the truth or another person's choice.
Black Hole
The void in space means a decision cannot be walked back, or that you feel stuck. It is also the unknown under awareness.
Black Light
Under this lamp you are missing what is happening around you, or refusing the facts. It can also be intuition.
Black Widow
The spider is fear inside a relationship that feels trapping, even hostility toward a partner. The female's reputation also names power over men.
Blackberries
The dark berries mean carelessness is creeping in. They also express sexuality you have kept hidden.
Blackbird
The dark songbird is missing motivation, or jealousy and temptation. One that dives is a move into what lies under awareness.
Blackboard
See also Chalkboard.
Blackmail
Forcing payment or silence is a contest of power that has gone too far. Being on the receiving end is helplessness, and the words can also name a man you know.
Blackout
The lights going out are a loss of perspective, frustration, or fear of what you cannot see.
Blacksmith
The smith is inner endurance. The image says act while the chance is hot.
Bladder
This organ asks you to restrain how you use power.
Blade
The edge means a hard decision that needs a clean distinction, and a life that must be kept in balance. Broken, the choice is muddled, or anger is the wrong tool.
See also Knife.
Blame
Being held responsible means you feel helpless in a waking situation. Putting it on someone else deflects what you yourself did.
Blanket
The covering is warmth, safety, and sometimes a cover-up. Wrapped in it, you fear the unknown; wrapping another person is a wish to care for them.
Blankness
A dream with nothing in it means something is missing: fruitless work, loneliness, or a mind that has zoned out.
Bleach
The pale cleaner is healing and a readiness to mend old hurts. Taking it in is regret for harsh words already spoken.
Bleachers
The tiered seats are a pause to look at how your goals are progressing. They can also return you to a school gym and the feelings of that time.
Blender
The machine that whirls ingredients shows you can join separate ideas into one workable whole.
Blessing
A spoken blessing means you are free to go ahead, and others approve. Growth is being recognized.
Blimp
The airship is ambition, sometimes an inflated view of yourself or worry about weight. Any words on its side are a message to use.
Blind
Unable to see, you are refusing the truth or any view but your own. A person who cannot see is an opportunity passing by; sight returning means trust instinct when the eyes cannot settle it.
Blind Date
Meeting someone you cannot see beforehand is an unknown part of yourself you are trying to admit.
See also Date.
Blindfold
Cloth over the eyes means someone or some situation is deceiving you, or you are cutting yourself off. Putting it on another person means you are the one being dishonest.
Blinds
Shutting the slats is denial, or something hidden. Opening them means you are ready to show what was private.
Blinkers
The signal lamps seek approval. If they fail, you hesitate about the direction already chosen.
Blinking
The rapid closing of the eyes means you fear seeing what is obvious.
Blister
The raised sore is a small annoyance draining time and energy. From hard labor it asks for more effort; from heat it is a problem in a relationship, and its place on the body shows where.
Blizzard
The white storm is emotional cold, a feeling of being left out of warmth, even inside the family.
Bloated
Swelling of the body is emotion that has not been released.
Blocks
Stacked pieces are obstacles between you and a goal. They can also be a vision built from nothing.
Blog
Writing or reading the online journal means the past is being rewritten to suit you, or a memory that should be kept. Someone else reading yours is popularity and a full life.
Blonde
Fair hair says enjoy yourself and allow a little glamour. Dyeing toward it means lighten a mood that has grown too serious.
Blood
The red fluid is life, love, and passion, and also disappointment. Losing it means you are drained, or that old acts have returned; words written in it are effort you refuse to abandon.
Blood Pressure
The reading of this force is stress from a problem. Too low, vitality and social life are thin; someone measuring it is a health worry worth attention.
Bloodstone
The green stone is calm, tolerance, and hardships you can get through.
Blossom
The opening flower is beauty in yourself, or work that will pay. You may be opening to something new.
Blouse
The shirt is an attempt to express feeling. Color, fit, and style show the mood more precisely.
Blow Dry
Hot air through the hair clears thought and lets a fresh idea in. The phrase can also mean something astonishes you.
Blow Torch
The flame tool is an attempt to erase a trait that shames you. What you aim it at shows which trait.
Blowfish
See also Puffer Fish.
Blowhole
The vent is a sudden burst of feeling, usually anger, looking for a way out.
Blowout
A sudden rupture, as of a tire, means surprises are delaying the goal.
Blowup Doll
The inflatable figure is a one-sided bond. Sex with it means your needs are not being met.
Blue
This color is truth, calm, loyalty, and a clear mind, or a wish to get away. It can also mean sadness; a light shade is creativity and a pace you set yourself.
Blue Jay
The crested bird is arrogance, or a call toward something you overlooked.
Bluebells
The hanging flowers say news is on the way.
Blueberries
The small blue fruit is youth you want back, and optimism. It can also be a depressed mood.
Bluebird
The small blue bird holds both happiness and sadness, and a settling of conflicts that seemed opposed.
Blueprint
The drawn plan says study the details before a plan or a bond goes forward. Inner change and a wider way of thinking may already be underway.
Blurry
A dream that will not come clear means you are refusing to look, and life may pass if you stay out of it. Secrets and confusion sit in the blur.
Blush
Color on the cheeks wants more warmth and expression. It can also mark embarrassment.
Bo
The doorman who turns people away means desire is being held down.
Boa Constrictor
The heavy snake is a relationship that feels suffocating. It can also be sexual feeling kept under, or a private enjoyment of it.
Boar
The tusked animal says look inside for answers about yourself and the people near you. The word can mean someone is dull.
Board Games
Games on a table mirror progress, setbacks, and wins in waking life. The title of the game adds a clue.
Boardinghouse
A house of rented rooms is emotional hardship. The stretch can pass if you hold on.
Boardwalk
Planks above the sand are the path of your life, your circle, and the way you live.
Boat
On the water, you are coping with feeling, so notice whether the surface is calm or rough. The image can say do not disturb a fragile peace, or that emotion is steering you too hard.
Boathouse
Living where boats are kept means you know how to express feeling, and the water shows the mood. You may also need time away from daily demands.
Bobble Head
The nodding figure means you go along with what others say and need to think for yourself. It can also be indecision.
Bobby Pin
The small clip is a need for order, and insecurity about something that must sit in its place.
Bobcat
The wild cat says notice the sights and sounds of ordinary hours.
See also Cat.
Bodice
The fitted bodice means feeling is held in and not fully said.
Body
Your own form is self-worth, often tied to how you think you look, and the state of your health. A dead one is detachment, or a situation long finished that you should leave.
Body Bag
The sealed bag means you feel distant and out of touch.
Body Builder
The muscular figure says develop a stronger or more flexible sense of power. Being one means you feel empowered.
Body Odor
An unpleasant smell from the body means you offend without noticing and should adjust. It can also be a problem that needs naming, or a cue not to take everything personally.
Body Paint
Color covering the skin is acceptance of your body and pride in it. Blue is calm, or a sadness that does not want to be judged by looks.
Body Piercing
See also Piercing.
Body Swap
Trading forms with someone means you want what they have, or you are trying to see from their side.
Bodyguard
Having a guard means a situation leaves you uneasy, perhaps after a recent hurt. Being one is a wish to shield others, a caring side.
Bog
See also Swamp.
Bogeyman
The night figure is a rejected part of yourself, and fear. For a child, it is the parent's discipline felt as punishment.
Bohemian
Living without a fixed plan is an easy, carefree attitude. It can also be a lack of direction.
Boiler
The heated tank is rage about to come out in a dramatic way.
Boiler Room
The room of pipes and heat is temper held in, an effort to stay cool.
Boiling
What rolls and steams is change, or a matter you need to reach the center of. Water in that state is turmoil, feeling ready to be admitted.
Bok Choy
The leafy stalk says stop dwelling on small things and look at the larger picture.
Bologna
The sliced meat is worry about money. It can also mean something phony or nonsensical.
Bolt
The fastener shields you from difficult feeling. The word can also mean you want to flee.
Bomb
The explosive device is a waking situation near a blowup, or feeling that will burst if it stays unsaid. Failing to make it safe means anger is out of control; one in a church neglects the spirit or rejects part of yourself.
Bomb Shelter
Hiding underground means you are overprotecting a feeling so it cannot surface.
Bondage
Being tied means feeling or character is held too tightly, and you may feel trapped by circumstance. In a sexual sense it is a wish to yield that you have not yet admitted.
Bones
What remains after flesh is a family or personal secret, and strength you have not yet named. Broken, a plan has a weakness; the bare form of a matter, or a grievance with someone, may be the point.
Bonfire
The open fire says choose a new path and let an outdated way of thinking go.
Bong
Smoking through the water pipe avoids feeling instead of meeting it, a search for escape.
Bonnet
The old-fashioned cap is sheltered ideals that narrow your view and your plans.
Bonsai Tree
The miniature tree is a conscious mind that has drawn its own limits. Instinct has more to say.
Booger
Picking from the nose means buried material is ready to be faced. A nose full of it is rigidity; unable to clear it, you cannot be fully yourself.
Boogie Board
Riding the short board means you are taking difficulties one day at a time.
Booing
The crowd's jeer means you want approval. Shame or embarrassment may be close.
Book Bag
See also Knapsack.
Bookkeeper
Keeping the ledgers means life needs balance. You may also need to answer for a circumstance.
Bookmark
The placeholder marks memory, the road behind you and the one in front. It can warn you not to step past a boundary.
Books
Volumes on a shelf are knowledge and a slow, steady pace toward a goal. Open, ideas come easily; dusty, an old chapter was forgotten; for children, they are early memory or a wish to escape into story.
Bookshelf
Shelves of volumes are the levels of mind where ideas are kept. You may need more information before a decision.
Bookstore
The shop of volumes is a quest for knowledge and a sharper mind.
Boomerang
What you throw and what returns is the consequence of how you treat people, for good or ill.
Booster Cables
Cables between batteries say get a start on goals that have been sitting idle.
Boot Camp
The training camp is a need for discipline and a tighter focus. It can recall an earlier season of the same feeling, or a wish for a fresh start.
Bootlegger
Running illegal goods means you act as though ordinary limits cannot touch you.
Boots
Footwear of this sturdy kind is bold movement and a firm stance. Dirty, they are stamina; the phrase can mean you are being pushed out.
Border
Crossing the line into another country is a new phase. It can also be two attitudes meeting.
Borrow
Taking what is not yours to keep means pride can be set down and help is allowed. You may also need a quality you are not using.
Bosom
See also Breasts.
Boss
The person in charge is your own authoritative side, or work that has crowded out freedom, and fear of them is fear of authority while sex with them is a wish for control. If you are not one while awake, the role says take charge of where you are headed.
Botox
The injection that smooths the face hides worry, or names concern about growing older.
Bottle
Glass with a narrow neck means feeling pushed back down instead of said, and what is inside shows the kind of feeling. Empty, inner resources are used up.
Bottle Brush
The long brush is an emotional cleaning: say what you have been keeping sealed.
Bottomless Pit
Falling where there is no floor means a setback or a problem feels impossible to climb out of.
Bougainvillea
The flowering vine is protection.
Boulder
The great rock is a major obstacle in some part of life.
Bounce House
The inflatable room is a lack of stability, and focus that will not hold.
Bound
Tied in place, you need freedom from a relationship or a situation. The image can also be a sexual fantasy not yet admitted.
Boundary
A marked edge means something is limiting growth and blocking the goal.
Bounty Hunter
Hunting for a reward is determination once a path is chosen. Money may be the motive, leaving an emotional gap.
Bouquet
Flowers given or received are affection, respect, and a healing energy. The kinds and colors add detail.
Boutonniere
The flower on the lapel is a special occasion that asks for your best conduct. You may want to be seen differently.
Bow
A tied ribbon is femininity, or a social cause, and its color matters. The archer's weapon is pursuit of a goal.
Bow And Arrow
Weapon and string together join feminine and masculine energies, including desire. The pair can also be anger, or a aim set at perfection.
Bowel Movement
Passing waste is the release of an old habit or a strong feeling such as anger. In public, it is regret for something said too loudly.
See also Constipation or Diarrhea.
Bowing
The bend of respect is honor toward something greater. You may need to yield to another person's wish.
Bowl
The round vessel is the womb and a sense of safety. How it is handled shows how you feel treated in a bond.
Bowling
The lane of pins is hits and misses in life: a poor game is regret, strike after strike is a successful stretch, and a ball in the gutter is a rut. The alley can also stand for sexual pursuit.
Bowling Pin
The standing pin is an issue you are trying to knock down.
Box
The container is instinct, including a destructive impulse, or a limit that makes you feel enclosed. Opening it reveals a hidden part of you; fear as you do so means that part makes you anxious.
Boxcar
The freight car, or a car on a cable, is financial security.
Boxing
Gloves and a ring are an inner conflict. The word can also mean you box yourself in and keep feeling shut.
Boxing Gloves
The padded gloves are a hard, even violent, situation you are trying to get through.
Boy
If you are a woman, this child is a masculine side developing, or feelings about a real boy who matters, including a protective instinct. If you are a man, he is playfulness, or an immature part that still needs to grow.
Boy Band
Performing in the group means a role or an image you feel you must uphold, and something you have to offer. The group's name may itself be advice.
Boy Scout
If you never were one, the uniform is commitment, community, and helpfulness. Seeing one means exemplary conduct and the ranks you still mean to earn.
Boyfriend
He stands for the waking bond and how you feel in it. His leaving, marrying someone else, or saying love has changed names insecurity or a shift in the relationship; a new one means the existing bond has grown more serious.
Bra
The support garment is protection and a need to have your spirits lifted, or a nurturing feeling. Going without it is a lack of discipline, or your sexual nature.
Bracelet
Around the wrist, the band is passion and a need to reach old friends again. Broken, you sacrifice your own comfort; if it was a gift, that person feels out of reach.
Bracer
The arm guard means you are holding back instead of giving full effort, and questioning what you can do.
Braces
Metal on the teeth is a habit of criticizing too fast, and a cue to listen. The word can mean prepare yourself for a blow.
Bragging
Talking yourself up means insecurity, an attempt to cover a shortcoming.
Braids
Hair woven tight is orderly thinking, determination, and a strong mindset.
Braille
Reading by touch means speech is being avoided, and the feeling may need plainer language.
Brain
The organ of thought is intellectual strain, or ideas that are not getting the attention you want. An operation on it means an important issue needs a different way of thinking.
Brain Surgery
See also Lobotomy.
Brainwash
Being overwritten by someone else's ideas means think for yourself and refuse to be told what to do.
Brakes
Pressing the pedal that slows you says ease off in work or in private life, or take a real pause. If they fail, stability is gone and this is a poor time for risks.
Bramble
Caught in the thorny shrub, you feel trapped in a relationship or in feeling.
Branches
Limbs of a tree are growth and the lines of communication in a family. Broken or snapping, a work problem or heavy stress has left you insecure.
Branded
The hot mark means you are being labeled unfairly, or that you yield too easily. Accepting it willingly is submission taken too far.
Brandy
The amber spirit is preoccupation with money. Other things matter more.
Brass
The yellow metal is deceit, and sometimes boldness. Polishing it means smooth the rough edges of how you come across.
Bravery
See also Courage.
Bread
The loaf is a basic need of life, and good things already learned. It can also say rise to the occasion.
Break
Something coming apart means a change of direction is ahead, or that you should slow down. Objects shattering around you mean stress has reached a limit, and the word can mean money is short.
Break-In
Someone forcing a way into the house means material from under awareness is trying to be known, or a relationship is crowding out your identity. Doing it yourself is a search for answers; into a car, plans are not working as drawn.
Break-Up
Ending the romance means something must be released, however hard. If they end it, the bond may be changing rather than failing; if you cannot accept an ending that already happened, denial is still in place.
Breakdancing
The floor dance is action that stays deliberate and controlled. Watching someone else do it means your thinking needs to loosen.
Breakdown
A vehicle that quits means you are pushing past your limit and risking your health. Choices need another look, and you need better care.
Breakfast
The first meal is a new project or a new stage. It can also be tomorrow's menu already on your mind.
Breast Feeding
Nursing is tenderness and care, with good things within reach, though you should be careful whom you confide in. Seeing it done for someone else means you are tending a hidden part of yourself.
See also Lactating.
Breast Implants
Surgical enlargement is insecurity about how you look and a sense you do not measure up. It can also be a wish to feel more sensual.
Breast Pump
The pump is your ability to give care and love.
Breastplate
Armor over the chest guards you against love and heartbreak.
Breasts
The chest is nourishment, motherhood, and a need to be cared for, and it can also be sexual energy or a feeling of exposure. Uneven or missing, desire feels unbalanced or you feel undesirable.
Breath
Struggling for air is anxiety about something new. Foul breath means your space feels crowded; holding it is a stubborn, one-sided view that should open.
Breathalyzer Test
The test of your breath means misdeeds will catch up, or that you should slow down.
Breathe
Rapid breathing is anxiety about a new situation. Underwater, you want the dependence of an earlier, responsibility-free state, or you are sunk in feeling; unable to draw air, you are exhausted.
Breeze
A light wind is ideas moving and small changes.
Brew
What steeps with time says patience and hard work will pay. Do not let the hurdles turn you aside.
Bribery
Being offered a payoff means you are easily swayed and should stand your ground. Offering one means you demand too much, and a payment to an officer means you think rules do not bind you.
Brick
The clay block is an individual idea, hardened by experience. A wall of them protects you and also isolates you; hard outside, you may still be sensitive within.
Bride
The woman in white is a union. Fleeing the ceremony means the coming commitment still feels impossible; if you are single, the role is a wish to marry or the most feminine part of you.
Bridegroom
If you are a woman, the man beside the bride is a wish for a committed partnership.
Bridesmaid
Standing with the couple, but not as the one marrying, a romance may be near. The old saying can mean you want a commitment of your own.
Bridge
Crossing the span is a critical decision and a move into a new stage, emotional if water is below. A collapse means an important chance was missed; a fall means feeling is holding you back.
Bridle
The headgear on you asks for restraint in body, mind, or spirit. On a horse, someone in waking life is manipulating you.
Briefcase
The case you carry is how prepared you are, and worry about work or travel.
Bright
Strong light is a higher awareness, honor owed to someone, or intellect. If it blinds, a new insight is being missed.
Brimstone
The burning stone is punishment, loss, or suffering. It can also ask you to hear both instinct and reason.
Broadcast
Being on the air means you want your message heard and need to speak more freely.
Broccoli
The green florets are a need for spiritual nourishment, or simply a diet out of balance. They can also be defenses raised around a situation.
Brochure
The folded leaflet is an open mind, willing to hear people who disagree.
Bronchitis
The chest illness is an obstacle you must stay with until it is cleared. It may also warn that the body needs watching.
Bronze
The brown metal says something, including your health, needs more care and protection.
Brooch
The pinned ornament is a part of yourself you are trying to express, a personal announcement.
Brook
See also Stream.
Broom
The sweeping tool says clear old issues and discard what no longer helps. It can mean time to settle a household, or a shadow side associated with witches.
Brothel
The house of paid sex is dissatisfaction in an emotional or sexual bond. Physical need wants attention.
Brother
He stands for the bond you have with him, or for traits you share with a close friend. Anger you will not say while awake can surface here, and the phrase about being watched names issues of authority.
Brother-In-Law
He carries traits you also find in yourself, colored by the waking relationship. An argument means you refuse one of his qualities; a sling means he seems unhelpful, a suit that you underestimate him.
Brown
This earth tone is practicality, comfort, and a material turn of mind. It also says return to your roots.
Brownies
The chocolate squares are a small indulgence you feel you have earned. Baking them is sweetness toward other people.
Bruce Lee
The martial artist is a negative force to fight, or inspiration to break a pattern so potential can show.
Bruise
The dark mark under the skin is stress, an old family wound, or consequences you need to accept. Where it sits on the body matters.
Brunette
Dark hair asks for a more grounded manner. Sexuality that smolders can live in the same image.
Brush
The tool with bristles is a wish to sweep a problem aside, perhaps too lightly. Through the hair it sorts thoughts and can favor looks over substance; on the teeth it is a shield against criticism.
Brutality
Cruel treatment means fears must be faced before you can move. The image can also be raw passion.
Bubble
Spheres of air are fun, childhood, and wishes that may be unrealistic. One that breaks is the disappointment that follows.
Bubble Bath
Foam in the bath is deep rest, worries set down and harsh feeling released.
Bubble Wrap
The sheet of air pockets says handle a problem cautiously, or shield yourself from hurt. Popping them is satisfaction and a workable way to let stress out.
Bubblegum
Chewing the sweet means a carefree attitude has gone too far and life needs more seriousness.
See also Gum.
Buck
The male deer is alertness, virility, and assertiveness. Two fighting is aggression and a wish to dominate; the word can also mean a dollar.
See also Deer.
Bucket
What you carry by the handle means the situation is improving. Full, it is abundance; empty, a loss or conflict can still be overcome.
Buckle
Fastening it accepts a responsibility. The word can mean you are folding under pressure; a costly one is status.
Bud
The unopened flower is potential and a beginning, a project finally moving. The word can also mean a friend.
Buddha
The seated figure is wisdom, compassion, and a peace you need to find in yourself.
Budget
Drawing one up means money needs focus. It can also mean love should be spread more evenly.
Budgie
See also Parakeets.
Buffalo
The great shaggy animal is survival and power, or a warning that you have left your path, and it can be heritage. A white one fulfills a wish; a herd is plenty and calm.
Buffet
Eating past fullness means a relationship is consuming your energy. Guilt may be the knot underneath.
Bug
The small creature is anxiety, something bothering you, or a strong tie to a hobby. Endless numbers in the hair mean a minor matter has been enlarged; under the skin, a situation makes you deeply uncomfortable.
Bug Spray
See also Insecticide.
Buggy
See also Carriage.
Bugle
The horn is a warning, an ending that begins something else, or remembrance and mourning.
Bugs Bunny
The gray rabbit is quick thinking that can clear an obstacle. The catchphrase may be asking what is going on.
Building
The structure is the self: height in it is rising awareness, ruins mean the approach is wrong, and a collapse means material ambition is failing. A fall from it descends into what lies under awareness, or names fear you will not finish.
Bulb
The underground start of a plant is potential in spirit, body, and mind, and the growth of a project or a bond. Heritage and fertility can sit in the same image.
See also Light Bulb.
Bulimia
The cycle of eating and purging is a refusal to accept yourself and a chase after perfection that leaves you isolated. Kinder regard is the point, not punishment.
Bull
The horned animal is stubborn strength, a cue to take a stand or to compromise, and it can mean prosperity or something worthless. Raging, passion is out of control; a black one chasing you is stubbornness you will not admit.
See also Steer.
Bull's Eye
The center ring is a search for perfection, or a goal you are set to reach.
Bulldog
The stocky dog is a protective force helping you move forward.
Bulldozer
The heavy machine means you feel pushed off the path you wanted, even bullied. It can also say clear the clutter.
Bulletin Board
The public board is a message from within, or a display of what you have achieved.
Bulletproof Vest
The vest that stops a shot is overprotection against emotional hurt, especially from a bond that already wounded you.
Bullets
The projectile is anger aimed at you or at someone else, so words and acts may be misread. Being struck means endure a hard stretch; the phrase can mean accept a difficult fact.
Bullfight
Watching the ring is a struggle between appetite and spirit. Two animals fighting is an imbalance.
Bullhorn
See also Megaphone.
Bully
Pushing others around means you dominate and will not ask for help. Being pushed is rage you have stored, a rejected side of yourself.
Bum
Living without a home or work means you feel like a failure and are losing control. Seeing someone in that state is laziness, a cue to take initiative.
Bumblebee
The heavy bee is distress and problems on the way.
Bumblebees
A group of the heavy bees is distress, with problems approaching.
Bumper
Damage to the car's guard is the small jolts life will bring. The road will not always be smooth.
Bumper Car
Riding the little colliding cars is resilience, the ability to rebound. It can also mean you are going nowhere.
Bumper Sticker
The sticker is a message you want the world to hear. Read the exact words.
Bungee Jumping
The leap on a cord is the ability to rebound after a setback. What matters is that you took the risk.
Bunk Beds
Stacked beds are childhood and innocence. They can also be conflicting views of sexuality and trouble saying what you need.
Bunker
Underground behind thick walls, anger stays unfaced and you stay on guard so feeling cannot surface.
Bunny
The small rabbit is a child's ease, and sometimes the spring holiday. One that runs from you is a lack of commitment, a habit of leaping from one situation to the next.
See also Rabbit.
Bunsen Burner
The lab flame says put energy into work that is worth it. Awareness or a truth may be developing.
Buoy
The floating marker is the ability to keep your head up through emotional distress, and a calmer mind. Buried thought may also have come to the surface.
Bureaucracy
Red tape and offices mean a part of life has lost personal contact and runs by routine.
Burglar
Entering to steal means your energy is being drained, or that guilt makes it hard to refuse people.
Burglary
A theft from your home is a feeling of invasion and helplessness, often after a large change. If it happened in waking life, the dream can be the aftershock.
Burgundy
The deep red is wealth, success, and power you could claim.
Burial
The ceremony of putting to rest means a bad habit or a negative situation has been released. Burying the living, or being buried while alive, is turmoil and a feeling of being stifled.
See also Funeral.
Burj Khalifia
The towering tower is success you refuse to set below the highest mark, and the drive behind that aim. It can also be a spiritual journey.
Burlap
The coarse cloth is a tough persona, unafraid to say what you think and feel.
Burning
Flames on a thing you see are intense feeling, including sexual passion, and an issue you can no longer ignore. They can also mean you are spent and need rest; consumed by them, ambition is eating you.
See also Fire.
Burp
The sudden release of air means you are changing as experience accumulates and you see differently. Hearing it is a breakthrough past what held you.
Burqa
Wearing the full covering means sexual expression feels shut down and you cannot be fully yourself. On someone else, a matter is being kept from you.
Burr
The clinging seed is a small irritation you have chosen to overlook. Covering an animal, it means someone is afraid to show a vulnerable side.
Burrito
The wrapped meal is efficiency in some matter.
Burst
Something giving way under pressure means stress has built too high.
Bury
Putting something in the ground hides true feeling or covers an act. A living person under the earth is turmoil and the weight of problems; bones of someone still alive are secrets you are trying to keep down.
Bus
Waiting for the shared ride is a temporary delay in a personal goal. Missing it, or boarding the wrong one, means life feels out of control or you fear the wrong path; riding along means you are following the crowd.
Bus Driver
The person at the wheel is leadership of a group idea, or motion that circles without progress. Being that person means you are moving fast and need more patience.
Bus Station
Arrival here is a new stage in emotional or physical life. Failing to arrive means you feel trapped or cut off from work, home, or a bond.
Bus Stop
Standing where the ride is boarded means a decision about the future is due.
Bush
The shrub is feminine feeling and desire, and can stand for female genitals. Hiding behind it keeps a secret; in flower, it is personal growth.
Business
A deal in the dream mirrors problems you are handling while awake, or parts of your personality that need dealing with. The word can mean life is too crowded, or that pleasure should wait.
Business Card
Handing the small card out means you need a wider network if success is going to come.
Business Trip
Travel for work means rest is hard to find and you feel overwhelmed.
Businessperson
The professional figure is the rational, organized part of you.
Bustier
See also Bra.
Butcher
The person with the cleaver is raw emotion or conduct you doubt, and sometimes a project you are ruining. Being one is stored anger.
Butler
The household servant means you lean too hard on other people's help, or that you want wealth. Being one is a feeling of serving, perhaps a role you need to take.
Butter
The spread is a wish to be gratified, or a need to soften someone so a situation eases. Churning it is hard work; melted, your manner toward others should soften.
Butter Knife
The dull blade is ease and simplicity. Using it on a task that needs a real edge means you lack the knowledge to finish.
Buttercup
The yellow flowers are childhood and a slower, simpler time. They can also be humility.
Butterfly
The winged insect is change, joy, and thought taking a different shape, or a scattered focus that needs to settle. Two mean a long romance; a dead one is a goal unrealized, and pinning one down is possessiveness.
Buttocks
The seat of the body is instinct and insecurity about a struggle you are in. Misshapen, a part of you is undeveloped or hurt; someone kissing or smelling it is a person whose intentions are not genuine.
Buying
Making a purchase accepts an idea or a condition, so notice the item. It can also mean something is missing and you are looking to fill it; a car is commitment to a decision already made.
Buzzard
The scavenging bird is death, decay, and an unattractive part of yourself.
Buzzer
The harsh sound is conflict in a relationship and doubt about a choice, perhaps regret. Something in the dream may also need attention now.