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.
C
C
The letter C marks the ordinary middle, or the initial of someone you should notice. It can also be a nudge to look harder at what is already in view.
Cab
Hailing a cab means you need help before the next stretch of the road will open. Riding inside one can mean someone else is steering you for their own gain.
Cabana
A cabana is a wish for time away. You are overloaded and need a quiet pause.
Cabaret
A cabaret asks you to admit the sensual, expressive side you usually keep offstage.
Cabbage
Cabbage says stop spending effort on petty matters; you do better with a real challenge. It can also mean a choice you should think through again.
Cabin
A wooden cabin points to success you build yourself, humble and self-reliant. A ship's cabin is a place you go to get some distance from strong feeling.
Cabinet
A cabinet can stand for the body that holds life, or for a family secret kept shut. If someone rearranges it, they are crossing a line you set.
Cable
A cable stands for stamina that holds. Frayed or broken, that strength is running out. Cable television points to how open you are when you speak with others.
Cable Car
A cable car is the compromise of moving with everyone else so the peace holds. You are still headed the right way.
Caboose
A caboose puts you last in line, and you feel shortchanged. You still arrive; being first is not the only way through.
Cackle
Cackling laughter points to sickness nearby and to a loss you can feel coming.
Cactus
A cactus means your space feels crowded and you are putting up spines to keep a boundary. You may also be stuck in a tight spot that calls for adapting, not forcing a change.
See also Succulents.
Cadaver
Working on a cadaver means you are ready to uncover a part of yourself you hid. Seeing one can mean a piece of you has gone quiet, or that you give everything you have to a bond.
Cadillac
A Cadillac is ambition with a long reach. The drive to succeed is what carries you forward.
Caduceus
A caduceus points to health you have been neglecting. The dream is asking you to take better care of your body.
Caesarian Section
A caesarian birth means a plan or idea will not launch unless someone helps you. It can also mirror real worry about that kind of delivery.
Cafe
A cafe is your social life calling. It is time to reach old friends and hear what they have been doing.
Cafeteria
A cafeteria means a pile of worries is eating at you from the inside.
Cage
Being caged is life narrowed by someone else's control, in love or in work. Putting a wild animal inside shows you can master a rival and your own rage; a bird behind bars is speech and spirit held down.
Cage Fighting
Cage fighting is a bond that feels locked, with a part of you fighting to get out. Watching a bout is two beliefs colliding.
Cake
Cake asks you to share the load instead of doing every piece yourself. It can also be a finished achievement, or a task that is easier than you fear.
Calamari
Eating calamari means you feel battered, and you are still tough enough to stay with it.
Calculator
A calculator says slow down and weigh the choices before you commit. It can also point to a person who schemes.
Calendar
A calendar is time passing, and a reminder of a date, meeting, or event you should not drop.
Calf
A calf is immaturity. Some quality in you still needs time to grow.
California
California is a hunger for fast wealth or fame. If you live there, the picture may simply be your ordinary surroundings.
Caliper
A caliper is worry that you do not measure up to what others expect. It also says judge slowly.
Calla Lily
Calla lilies mark a beginning, a return, and a long span of life. A white one is simplicity or elegance, and the flower can also mean a commitment.
Calling Card
A calling card means someone needs to hear from you. A familiar name on it says that person is still with you in spirit, even at a distance.
Calluses
Calluses are the mark of hard work. You have been laboring at a difficult task.
Calm
Feeling calm is a life that satisfies you as it is. If someone is trying to settle you, strong feeling is about to cost you ground.
Calomel
Calomel points to a rivalry. Taking it means someone is using you, and it is time to stop letting that happen.
Calves
Your calves are movement, the ease of shifting from one situation to the next. Admiring them can point to a bond where you need too much from the other person.
Camcorder
See also Video Camera.
Camel
A camel is too many burdens piled on your back, and feelings you refuse to set down. It can also be stamina, and petting one means you are ready to drop some of that load.
Cameo
A cameo is a delicate side of you that wants to be shown. It can also be a brief appearance you make in a social scene.
Camera
A camera is a grip on the past, or a need to focus until the picture is clear. A broken one, or one you cannot find, means you are refusing the larger view.
Camouflage
Camouflage is a true feeling hidden, or a wish to blend in so nobody notices you.
Camper
Living in a camper means it is time to leave a situation you have been circling. It can also be a wish to stand on your own.
Campfire
A campfire is shared company. Let people get close enough to know you.
Camping
Camping is a need for rest and a simpler pace, close to the outdoors. It can also be the search for a group where you belong and still stay independent.
Campus
A campus is the urge to stretch what you know and test your mind.
Can
A can is something from the past worth keeping. It can also be a reminder that you are able, or feelings you have sealed inside.
Can Opener
A can opener is willingness to take in a new idea. It also reassures you that you are able to do the thing.
Canada
Canada takes its meaning from what the country already means to you. If you have never been, the dream uses your own picture of the place.
Canal
A canal is feeling held in a narrow channel, and thinking so rigid it blocks the goal. You are gripping control too tightly.
Canary
A canary is happiness and ease between people. It can also be a new bond beginning to open.
Cancel
Canceling plans is fear of facing a matter directly. A canceled flight is the sense of being stuck, held back in body or mind.
Cancer
Cancer here is grief, self-pity, and a hurt that eats at you; treatment means a real turn toward healing. As a sign of the zodiac, it is mood, family loyalty, and a habit of holding on.
Candle
A burning candle is steady hope and a search for understanding; an unlit one is disappointment and unused ability. One that goes out is a part of you being released, and a red one is a romance you may be dismissing too fast.
Candle Wax
Candle wax means the days are too full. Slow down. It can also be time itself moving on.
Candy
Candy is a small joy and a treat, and also indulgence you may be overdoing. The plain reading is simply that sweets have become a habit.
Candy Apple
A candy apple warns that a good thing can be too much. Somewhere you need more restraint.
Cane
A cane is support, or a person you can lean on. Being struck with one is pressure to obey; using one on someone else is anger you have stored.
Cannabis
See also Marijuana.
Canned Food
Canned food is emotion sealed away because the moment does not feel safe for the truth.
Cannibalism
Cannibalism is a hunger that consumes, often a job, bond, or duty draining your energy. Being the one consumed is the feeling of being used up by that demand.
Cannon
A cannon means something drastic has to happen now. It can also stand for blunt male drive.
Cannonball
A cannonball is anger you are carrying, and the weight of it is dragging you down.
Canoe
A canoe is quiet independence. You move by your own effort, and your feelings are in balance.
Canopy
A canopy is protection overhead. It can also mean you are being lifted into a more visible place.
Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe is a hard outer manner around a tender inside.
Canteen
A canteen is the wish to meet an emotional need in a quick, simple way.
Canvas
A canvas is possibility, especially when it is blank. Whatever is painted on it is a piece of your inner life.
Canyon
A canyon is feeling you had not recognized, and ties that were hidden from you.
Cap
A cap is ease and informality. It also asks you to be more tolerant of other people.
Cap And Gown
Cap and gown means you are stepping into a higher stage. Seeing someone else in them is your own success recognized.
Cape
A cape is a shield against emotional hurt, or a cover over something you would rather hide.
Capital Punishment
See also Death Penalty.
Capricorn
Capricorn is fear that you do not measure up. It can also be drive, stubborn effort, and ambition.
Capsize
A capsized boat is the habit of dodging feelings and situations you do not want to face.
Captain
Being captain means feelings and the issues that bother you are now in your hands. Seeing one is influence you hold over other people.
Captive
Captivity is a job, a bond, or a life that feels like a trap. It can also be something you still refuse to admit.
Car
A car is how you steer from one stage of life to the next: driving means you are in charge, and the passenger seat means someone else is. A car that will not start, is stolen, or overheats points to lost power, a shaken identity, or effort pushed too far.
Car Alarm
A car alarm says the route you are on is wrong. Change direction.
Car Battery
A car battery is stamina. A dead one means you are overworked and need rest before you give out.
Car Carrier
A car carrier means you have no destination of your own. Other people are choosing the road.
Car Dealership
A car dealership is a decision about where your life should go next.
Car Seat
An infant seat means you are guiding someone else's path, or that your own important journey is only just beginning.
Car Show
A car show is attraction to a flashy life that may not be yours. Showing your own car there is pride, and a wish to be recognized.
Caramel
Caramel starts sweet and turns into a mess that sticks. If the offer looks too good, treat it with caution.
Caravan
A caravan means the goal comes with other people's help. You do not have to finish it alone.
Carburetor
A carburetor is balance across feeling, body, and spirit.
Carcass
A carcass is the sense of being pulled apart inside.
Cardboard
Cardboard is thin cover. You are poorly protected against a risk.
Cardinal
A cardinal is vitality and a glad mood. It can also mean first place, or standing at the front.
Cards
Playing cards is strategy in work, money, love, or trouble, depending on the suit. Shuffling means you cannot decide and need to look at the choices again.
Cargo
Loading cargo is a weight you are hauling, and you feel overloaded. Unloading it means you are ready to drop the extra habit or burden.
Carjack
A carjacking is a life that has been yanked onto a road you did not choose.
Carnation
Carnations are lightness, vitality, and joy. They can also point to being unattached; the color adds the shade of meaning.
Carnelian
Carnelian is passion and matters of the heart, and a need for spiritual mending.
Carnival
A carnival is show and deception, and a ride that only circles. Running away with it ties you to entertainment and spectacle.
Caroling
Caroling is joy, harmony, and a festive mood. It may also name a person called Carol.
Carousel
See also Merry-Go-Round.
Carp
A carp asks you to set pride aside so it does not spoil a friendship. It is also patience, courage, and success that comes from staying with the effort.
Carpenter
A carpenter is someone working through obstacles until they give way. You may also need to rebuild the way you think.
Carpet
A carpet is padding against a hard world, or comfort and wealth underfoot. Laying one is a new plan; a flying one is the wish to escape a duty.
See also Red Carpet.
Carriage
An old carriage is thinking that has gone out of date. It can also be power and status.
Carrom Board
A carrom board says keep your aim on the goal. It can also mean you are trying to shield someone you love from a problem.
Carrot
A carrot is plenty and fertility, or a lure dangled to move you. Eating one is a moment of clearer sight.
Carry
Being carried is the fear that you are a burden, and a cue to stand more on your own. It can also lean toward romance.
Cartoon
A cartoon world means you are treating real life as a joke, or using humor to survive the stress. Watching cartoons is a sign you are not taking the matter seriously.
See also Cartoon Character.
Cartoon Character
People drawn as cartoons are ones you are not taking seriously. A particular character brings the trait you already link with them into a current situation.
Cartwheels
Cartwheels are balance, or the need to get it back when stress knocks you over. Trouble doing them is doubt in your own ability, or work and pleasure out of proportion.
Carving
Carving wood is creative force being given a shape. Carving meat is distance from a feeling, or someone cutting into a part of your life.
Carwash
A carwash is a cleanup of how you see yourself, the moment a new beginning feels possible.
Cash
See also Money.
Cash Register
A cash register is money worry, and a tally of where you stand. It can also be a gain you expect.
Cashier
Being a cashier is a recount of what you have done with your life. It can also mean you have already left a situation in your mind.
Cashmere
Cashmere is luxury and a taste for finer things. It can also be warmth you want inside a relationship.
Casino
A casino is the part of you that gambles. If you are usually cautious, take one real chance; if you already gamble, decide with more information.
Casket
A casket holds fear of dying, and also a closed, womb-like space, or a habit that can at last be put away. Empty, it is a split that will not mend; a body inside is a low, confined stretch and a situation that should finish. White points to innocence already lost.
Casserole
Making a casserole is a new idea, or a phase of life just opening.
Cassette Tape
A cassette says your words carry real value. It can also mean you are stuck on the same loop and need to step off it.
Cassowary
A cassowary is a shy nature that steps around argument and confrontation.
Cast
A cast means movement is limited, or one area of life needs restraint; notice which limb. It is also a season of mending and discipline.
Castanets
Castanets are small irritations through the day. They can also say cast a wider net and look for help.
Castle
A castle is honor and reward for what you have achieved, or a wish to hide from daily trouble. Living in one can become isolation; standing outside the door is a large chance you missed.
Castration
Castration is the fear that your force, desire, or creative power has been cut away. The pressure you feel is about performance and strength, not a literal wound.
Cat
A cat is independence, creativity, and a sharp feminine power, and it can also be deceit or bad luck. Aggression, a missing tail, or a dead cat points to that freedom being threatened or refused.
Cat Eyes
Cat eyes mean you can find a way through a dark problem and still see a brighter side. They can also mean you are being sly, or that a hard truth is suddenly clear and frightening.
Cat Litter
See also Litter Box.
Catacomb
A catacomb asks you to face what you have buried in yourself.
Catapult
A catapult is an obstacle cleared by cleverness and persistence. You may also be moving faster toward success than you expected.
Cataract
A cataract, or its removal, is a search for a clearer view. Important details are still blurred.
Catastrophe
A catastrophe is sudden upheaval, and sharp anxiety about changes you cannot yet see.
Catch
Catching something means you need to take that thing into your life; a ball is wholeness, a fish is a spiritual need. Playing catch is ease and closeness, and it can also mean something spreading.
Catcher
A baseball catcher means you should be ready for whatever is thrown at you. It can also mean you want to pursue someone you like and are not sure whether to try.
Caterpillar
A caterpillar is growth underway. You are on the way, and you have not arrived.
Catfish
A catfish is a person whose real nature is not obvious at first look.
Cathedral
See also Church.
Catsup
Catsup is simplicity, youth, and a light happiness. It can also mean unfinished business still waiting on you.
Cattle
Cattle say move carefully in a situation or a bond. A herd is lost individuality or prosperity; a stampede is something in your life running out of control.
Catwalk
A catwalk is new confidence and the pleasure of being seen for your talent. It can also mean you are using looks to get your way instead of looking inward.
Caught
Being caught is fear of judgment, and a soft spot you did not want seen. It can also mean you are watching your surroundings too hard.
Caul
A caul is sight clouded by someone or something. It is also a sign of luck and protection.
Cauldron
A cauldron is a change underway, and a sense of fate. It can stand for fertility; what simmers inside it matters.
Cauliflower
Cauliflower is spiritual nourishment and a sadness that wants lifting; the hard stretch ends soon. It can also be the mind and what it can do.
Cave
A cave is shelter, protection, and a hidden place. Walking a dark one is a search through your own depths.
Cave Painting
A cave painting means you are not ready to share the idea, or to show your inner life fully.
Caveman
See also Barbarian.
Caviar
Caviar is expensive taste. You like fine things and do not mind showing them.
Cavities
A cavity is fear and shaky confidence about a situation.
CD
A compact disc is pleasure, distraction, and a chance within reach; the music and title matter. Giving it away is a message inside the songs, and the letters may name a person or something sordid.
CD Player
A CD player is the image you want others to hold of you, and the plain pleasure of music.
Cedar
Cedar is long life, strength, and endurance. It offers steadiness in a hard season.
Ceiling
A ceiling is the limit you have set on mind or spirit. Water damage there is a feeling you keep postponing until it becomes a larger problem.
Celebration
A celebration is growth you have earned, and recognition for a goal met. It is also emotional release, common when a turning point is near.
Celebrities
Being famous in a dream is an aim set higher than you can reach yet, and a friend's fame is fear of losing them. A star you desire stands for the success you want, more than for the person.
Celebrity
Fame here is ambition that may outrun what you can do right now, or fear of losing someone who becomes distant. Kissing or dating a star is the drive to succeed in whatever that person represents, or a fascination you already carry.
See also Actor.
Celery
Celery is a wish to be cleaned out, in body or in feeling. It can also point to pay and money worry.
Celibacy
Celibacy is fear of closeness. You are trying to shut down sexual energy.
Cell Phone
A cell phone is openness to news, and the ability to move. Losing it is a break in contact with someone or with yourself; finding one, or a cracked screen, is connection returning or speech that is not working.
See also Telephone.
Cell Phone Tower
A cell tower is your lines to other people. One built on your house means a family silence that can no longer be ignored.
Cellar
A cellar is fear and trouble stored out of sight. Going down into it is facing the past.
Cello
A cello is sensual or creative work done with strength and steadiness.
Celtic Knot
A Celtic knot is continuity, long life, and a tradition that does not age. The shape of the knot adds the rest.
Cement Truck
A cement truck is a plan turning firm and being set in motion. Mixing the load is joining separate parts of yourself.
See also Concrete.
Cemetery
A cemetery is the end of a habit, and sometimes grief or fear of death that is still open. Cleaning the grounds is respect for where you came from, and honesty about the past.
Censor
Being censored means a situation is blocking what you think and feel. Something censored means you do not yet have the facts you need.
Centaur
A centaur is the split in you between mind and body, and the work of balancing them. It also stands for humanity, wisdom, and compassion.
Center
The center is the belief that everything turns around you, or a situation you are stuck in the middle of. Being off center means some part of life is out of balance.
Centipedes
Centipedes are fears and doubts that keep you from moving toward a goal. The negative loop needs to stop.
Ceramics
Ceramics ask you to get more directly involved, and to let a creative side show.
Cereal
Cereal is the start of a project or a new stage, and a return to something basic. Sometimes it is only tomorrow's breakfast already on your mind.
Ceremony
A ceremony says success will take devotion and a real commitment. This is a moment for looking inward.
Certificate
A certificate is the wish to have a situation confirmed, and to be recognized for the work.
Cesarean Section
A cesarean means an idea will not get off the ground without help. It can also be plain anxiety about that delivery.
Cesspool
A cesspool is emotional waste that needs clearing. Let go of what is holding you back.
Chains
Chains are a routine, an old idea, or a bond you need to leave. Being chained is a part of you held back from what it wants.
Chainsaw
A chainsaw means a drastic change is close, and success will take willpower. It can also be the urge to get to the center of a matter fast, including raw sexual drive.
Chair
A chair says sit down and think before you go on, or simply rest. It can also mean your idea is being set aside; a folding chair is a situation that keeps changing.
Chairlift
Riding a chairlift upward is fear being met and a higher place reached. Watching others from it is life passing while you stay passive; underwater, feeling has gone numb.
Chakra
A chakra dream is energy that is blocked and needs opening. Note the place: head for judgment and intuition, throat for speech, chest for care, belly for closeness and conflict, base for feeling unrooted.
Chalice
A chalice is hunger for spiritual food, and a search for a self and a life that mean more.
Chalk
Chalk is school and a test of what you know. Writing in chalk is an advantage that will not last; read what it says.
Chalkboard
A chalkboard is an old classroom difficulty and a lesson still due. Writing on it means you will have to get your hands dirty; it can also point to debts.
Chameleon
A chameleon is the ability to fit almost any situation. It can also mean you feel overlooked.
Chamomile
Chamomile is patience. Something has you stirred up, and you need to settle.
Champagne
A champagne bottle opening is extravagance, celebration, or a proud achievement. It can also stand for sexual release.
Chandelier
A chandelier is grandeur and a bright stretch ahead. Crystal adds wealth.
Change
The wrong change is about worth: too little is low esteem, too much is a swollen sense of what you are owed.
Changing Room
See also Dressing Room.
Chanting
Chanting with others is shared purpose and a lifted spirit. Hearing it from outside is discord and argument.
Chapel
See also Church.
Chaps
Chaps point to hostility that stays polite on the surface.
Chapstick
See also Lip Balm.
Character
Playing a character means you are dodging a responsibility, or performing a self that is not yours. Look for the scene where the act has replaced honesty.
Charades
Charades are a message you cannot get into words. Work out what you are trying to say.
Charcoal
Eating charcoal is strong appetite and desire, and a shift in which you accept a more sensual side.
Chariots
Riding a chariot means you need more control over your life. Falling from one is failure.
Charity
Giving or receiving charity is the same motion as giving and receiving love. You have compassion for people.
Charleston
Dancing the Charleston points to substantial success ahead.
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin is a search for direction, and a need for more variety than the daily round allows.
Charm Bracelet
A charm bracelet is protection. Each charm adds its own meaning.
Chart
A chart is your aims and the way you go after them.
Chase
Being chased is a problem you are running from, often anger or fear you will not name. Chasing someone is a hard goal you are trying to catch, or aggression; enjoying the chase is the pleasure of being wanted.
Chasm
See also Abyss.
Chastity Belt
A chastity belt is your stance toward sex, guarded or closed. It can also mean protection that has become old-fashioned and too tight.
Chat Room
A chat room is the wish to meet people mind to mind. It can also mean the screen has replaced real company, and you need to go out.
Chauffeur
Being the chauffeur means you are steering someone else toward their goal. Being driven is luxury and high self-regard, or dependence because you are not holding the wheel.
Cheap
Cheapness is a feeling of low worth, in you or in how others price you. A bargain can mean you are undervalued, or that you are taking something valuable from someone else.
Cheating
Cheating on a partner is guilt, a broken promise to yourself, or desire you are curious about; near a wedding it often marks nerves about a new identity. A partner cheating is fear of being left, or a hint you have already noticed.
Check
A check is a debt you feel you owe, or a prompt to look something over. A blank one is unused potential; a check mark is approval for work that paid off.
Checkerboard
A checkerboard is the many sides of your character, or a pull between better and worse impulses. It can also be a past you are not proud of, returning.
Checkers
Checkers says you need a clear plan if you want to get past opponents. It can also mean look again at a particular woman.
Checkout
A checkout is completion, a sense of being whole. It can also mean you are only half in, and you want out of a bond or a fix.
Cheeks
Cheeks are closeness, commitment, and the force of your opinions. Rosy ones are vitality; sunken ones are hardship; a kiss on the cheek is respect or friendship.
Cheer
A cheer means the choice you made is the right direction, and your confidence is up. It can also be a prompt to lift your mood.
Cheerios
Cheerios mean something is missing and you do not feel whole. They can also be a goodbye.
Cheerleader
A cheerleader is competition, triumph, and encouragement you could offer others. Being one is confidence, and a call to show up with more energy and a brighter stance.
Cheese
Cheese is gain and profit. It can also mean something tacky, or a hint to smile more.
Cheese Curl
Cheese curls are a trace left by indulgence or by behavior you would rather hide. Sometimes it is simply a craving.
Cheesecake
Cheesecake means things are going well, and you have earned a sweet reward.
Cheetah
A cheetah says get moving. You have been idle, and the goal needs pursuit.
Chef
Being a chef means you know the next step and you are moving with skill learned from experience. Seeing one is change underway; notice what is developing in your life.
Chemicals
Chemicals are a transformation, a sorting out of who you are. Mixing them is creativity, clever handling, or mental power.
Chemistry
Chemistry is the ability to change how you present yourself, and also manipulation, whether you are doing it or receiving it.
Cherry
Cherries are honesty, sweetness, and good fortune, or a reminder not to take life so hard. A cherry tree is luck, spring, and youth.
Cherry Blossom Tree
A cherry blossom tree is beauty and love that hold power and softness in the same branch. It also marks how short life is, and the need to use it.
Cherub
A cherub is innocence, frailty, and mischief, and a hint to take life less heavily. It can also mean you have been dishonest or manipulative.
Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire cat is mischief, deceit, and mockery. Someone nearby may not be safe to trust.
Chess
Chess says think the situation through before you move; the light and dark squares are the gains and the costs. Pieces coming alive mean a task has swallowed your attention, or the situation is now running you.
Chest
The chest is confidence and vitality, or pressure you need to speak aloud. A storage chest is needs you suppress, or memories you refuse to put down.
Chestnut Tree
A chestnut tree is strength and good health.
Chevron
A chevron is protection.
Chew
Chewing is the work of sorting a matter and thinking it over with care.
Chicago
Chicago is mainstream thinking, or a life blown toward a new direction with extra energy.
Chick
A baby chick is youthful curiosity and innocence. The word can also be a casual name for a young woman.
Chickadee
A chickadee says pay attention. Something unusual and worth noticing is happening.
Chicken Suit
A chicken suit is your own mind calling you afraid. Confidence is what is missing.
Chickens
Chickens are fear, weak follow-through, and gossip you should listen for. A rubber one says lighten up; eating chicken, especially raw, is dread or a goal you are not ready for.
Chief
A police chief says answer for your actions; a higher authority is waiting. Your feeling about the chief mirrors how you stand with a father figure.
Chiffon
Chiffon is a delicate, feminine side, and the places where you are vulnerable.
Chihuahua
A Chihuahua is someone nearby who is louder than you expected, or insecure. The threat may sound larger than it is.
Child
Being a small child again is the weight of adult duty, and a wish to be looked after. Losing a child is lost hope or a project failing; a child falling is innocence gone.
Childhood
Childhood is a wish for fewer duties, and for innocence. It can also be an old anxiety, or a trait from those years, still not settled in the adult you are.
Children
Children are your own youthful qualities, innocence, or someone acting younger than they are. Grown children still small means you want to be needed; children harmed stand for a younger part of you that still has no voice.
Chili
Chili is intense passion and raw feeling. It can also mean you have gone emotionally cold.
Chills
Chills are fear, or indifference toward a person or a situation. They can be a real draft, or a hint to calm down.
Chimera
A chimera is confusion. Thoughts and feelings need sorting before you can see straight.
Chimes
Chimes are calm. They can also mean something deserves your close attention.
Chimney
A chimney is warmth, tradition, and family. Smoke is pressure finding a way out; a collapse is vitality failing; sweeping it is the need to vent frustration and guilt.
Chimpanzee
A chimpanzee means the fact you trusted does not hold. You have thought the issue past usefulness.
Chin
The chin is resilience, the ability to come back after a hard hit. Stay steady and keep your outlook up.
Chinchilla
A chinchilla is emotional contentment and warmth, or a need for a lot of attention. It can also touch your view of the fur trade.
Chipmunk
A chipmunk is the past gripped too tightly. It is time to let some of it go.
Chiropractor
A chiropractor is support and advice you are allowed to ask for. Needing help is not weakness.
Chisel
A chisel means you have to break a surface to reach the real problem.
Chives
Chives are getting along with people, harmony and balance.
Chlamydia
Chlamydia points to a harsh or fearful attitude about sex. It is also a reminder to be careful with intimacy.
Chocolate
Chocolate is love, celebration, and a reward you give yourself, sometimes past the point of restraint. Melting chocolate is disappointment, or a change you need to accept.
Chocolate Milk
Chocolate milk is a good feeling about life.
Choir
Singing in a choir is spiritual balance and the ability to work with others. Singing off key means you do not fit the group.
Choker
A choker is trouble speaking. In some situation you feel tightened and without a voice.
Choking
Choking is advice or a situation you cannot accept, or words you cannot get out. Someone choking you is feeling held down; choking someone else is aggression and a wish to stop a truth.
Chopping
Chopping is a problem cut into pieces small enough to handle. It can also be the nerve to do a hard thing.
Chopping Board
A chopping board says take a stand. You may be at risk of losing a job or a commitment, with your performance under review.
Chopsticks
Chopsticks are an attempt to manage a situation from a little distance, or to extend your reach. Used the wrong way, they mark a sticky fix.
Choreographer
A choreographer is freedom to direct your own life, with balance and room to move.
Chores
See also Housework.
Chow Chow
A chow chow is loyalty that does not waver, and a protectiveness that goes a bit far.
Christ
Christ is the wish to become more whole, and spiritual truth reached through love. The figure also carries whatever your own belief already gives it.
Christening
A christening is a renewal and a clean start. You want to become a better person.
Christian
Christianity here follows your own belief and religious experience, a sign of inner growth. It may also name a person called Christian.
Christmas
Christmas is family gathered, generosity, and a fresh start. Your own history with the holiday colors the picture.
Christmas Card
A Christmas card is reaching toward people you love, and forgiveness. Pride can be set down.
Christmas Lights
Christmas lights are a looser, more adaptable way of looking.
Christmas Tree
A Christmas tree is family gathering, and sometimes strain at home, plus time passing and inner growth. In December it can simply be the holiday itself, with its pleasures and its pressure.
Chrome
Chrome is a surge of energy. It is time to share the new idea.
Chrysalis
See also Cocoon.
Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums are plenty, humility, long life, and gratitude. They can also say keep quiet about a situation.
Church
The outside of a church is what you hold sacred. Inside, you are looking for guidance after a setback, or questioning where the path leads; damage to the building is a spiritual need ignored, or hostility toward part of yourself.
Churning
Churning is disorder. Aim that energy at something worth the effort.
Churro
A churro is a sweet reward and a break from the daily problem. It can also stand for male sexuality.
Cicadas
See also Locusts.
Cigar
A cigar is a relaxed hold on your feelings and passions, and a sign of male energy. A dried or shriveled one points to a sex life that has gone flat.
Cigarettes
A cigarette is the need for a pause, and sometimes dependence. If you oppose smoking, look at a habit that is hurting your health.
Cilantro
Cilantro stands for a life that lasts, a sense of something enduring.
Cincher
A waist cincher is the effort to fit someone else's ideal by changing yourself.
Cinderella
Cinderella means a bad stretch can still end well. Being her is overload, or the feeling of being overlooked and unrecognized.
Cinema
See also Theater.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon says add a little spark, something unlike your usual self. It can also be renewal and a cleaning out.
Cinnamon Bun
A cinnamon bun is wholeness, and the sweeter parts of life.
Circle
A circle is completeness, or the frustration of going around the same loop. An unfinished circle is obstacles on the way to a goal; circles inside circles are protection, sometimes too much of it.
Circuit Board
A circuit board is the sequence a project needs if the outcome is going to hold. It can also be whatever keeps people or pieces together.
Circuit Breaker
A circuit breaker is overload. You are past working well, and the dream says pause, sort, and rank the tasks.
Circumcise
Circumcision is the loss of something essential in you, or a retreat that cuts you off from feeling.
Circus
A circus is hunger for a more exciting life, or the ease with which you are drawn into trouble. An empty one is loneliness; chaos there is a life out of control.
Citation
A citation says look again at how you are living. The current path may land you in trouble.
Citizenship
Citizenship is belonging and pride. Not being a citizen is feeling lost or turned away.
Citrine
Citrine is personal power. You need more will if the goal is going to be pursued.
City
A city is your social world. A large one can mean you feel alone and need closer ties; a deserted or ruined one is rejection or neglected relationships; one underwater or underground is shared human depth; one in the sky is hopes set too high.
City Hall
City hall is a lack of support. You feel pushed around by a stronger power.
Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights era here can be ego rising over other people, or the sense that you are being treated unfairly. It can also be a call to change something.
Claddagh
A claddagh is love, loyalty, and friendship. Giving or wearing the ring is commitment to those three.
Clairvoyant
Clairvoyance is sudden clarity about a problem, and a mind at peace.
Clam
A clam is stubbornness and staying power. Closed, it is emotional coldness, other people shut out of your trouble.
Clamp
A clamp says hold the situation together, especially when others are losing control.
Clap
Clapping is a bid for attention, or a pause before you say what you really feel. Hearing a clap means something needs close notice.
See also Applause.
Clapperboard
A clapperboard is the wish for fame and glamour. It can also be the many chances that pass through a life.
Clarinet
A clarinet says adjust the tone you use when you speak.
Class
Being in class is a hint to show more grace. Forgetting a course you enrolled in is fear of failing, and doubt that the new responsibility is one you can carry.
Classic Car
A classic car is long life and a long aim. You have come far from where you started.
Classmates
Old classmates bring a lesson from that time into a relationship you are in now.
Classroom
A classroom is an important lesson, or growth in self-knowledge. Searching for one means you need to learn more; an outdoor one asks you to be freer and more adaptable.
Claustrophobia
Claustrophobia is guilt, and fear that old actions will be punished.
Claw
Claws are vulnerability and hostility, the need to defend yourself or your ground. Watch your words and your actions.
Claw Machine
A claw machine is something almost in your hands that keeps slipping away.
Clay
Clay is creativity and the power to shape a situation, sometimes to your own advantage. A clay pot is devotion or purity, and a sign of healing.
Clean Shaven
A usually bearded face, clean shaven, means that person is ready to speak plainly about a feeling or a fact.
Cleaners
The cleaners warn that someone may be using your goodwill against you. You may also need to settle a matter without getting flooded by emotion.
Cleaning
Cleaning is the removal of a negative habit and a move into a new stage. It can also mean tell the whole truth; cleaning a desk is setting down a weight.
Clearance
A clearance price is selling yourself short, feeling undervalued. It can also be an old trait you need to clear out.
Cleaver
A cleaver marks a bond or a job tie that needs severing. It is also anger, or a problem broken into pieces you can handle.
Clef
A clef is harmony and cooperation. The treble leans toward joy; the bass toward seriousness or sadness.
Cleopatra
Cleopatra is the danger of being swept by a force you cannot steer. Being her is recognition of your own beauty and appeal.
Clergyman
See also Preacher.
Client
A client reflects the power you hold and the service you give. Being the client means you want your ideas approved.
Cliff
The edge of a cliff is a new view and a decision you cannot fumble. Falling is fear of what comes next; climbing is ambition, the wish to rise in your work.
Climate
See also Weather.
Climb
Climbing up is a struggle nearly behind you, with the goal in reach. Climbing down is hesitation about feelings you would rather not enter, or a mood that has sunk.
Clinic
A clinic says tend your spiritual, emotional, or physical health. Notice what you went there to have checked.
Clipboard
A clipboard is the sense of being judged for your choices. It can also mean other people value your view.
Cloak
A cloak is the wish for safety and warmth, or a cover over something hidden. Torn, it is a rift with someone close.
Clock
A clock is time pressure and a deadline on your mind. Stopped, it can mean an ending; racing, an emotion too large; running backward, a life that feels stuck instead of moving on.
Clock Tower
A clock tower means your work will be recognized.
Clogged
A clogged drain is a blockage you need to clear before progress can return.
Clogs
Clogs are a firm footing. They can also mean you feel overloaded, or anger held in; clog dancing is the rhythm and zest of your life.
Clone
A clone is two ideas in harmony or in conflict, or so much work that you wish you could split yourself. Many clones mean you are copying other people and need your own thinking.
Closed
A closed door is a part of life, or a chance, shut off, sometimes a private sexual matter. A closed store is a mind that will not consider another view, and the frustration of something missing.
Closet
A closet is something you have kept hidden, or a hidden side ready to be shown. Hiding inside one is protection from being hurt, and fear of being known.
Cloth
Cloth is the separate pieces that make up your life. Color hints at how things are going.
Clothes Hanger
See also Hanger.
Clothesline
Hanging clothes out, especially underwear, is a hidden side revealed, or a hang-up made public. White clothes are a wish to be clean and innocent; the dream may also say keep private matters private.
Clothespin
A clothespin is control over what people learn about you. Pinching your nose with one means the situation is beneath your attention.
Clothing
Clothes are the self you show in public, and whether it fits the life you are in. Too tight is restriction; too loose is low esteem; torn cloth is a flaw in your reasoning; new clothes are a new way of presenting yourself.
Clothing Store
A clothing store is the search for a new image, or anxiety about whether you fit a role.
Clouds
Bright clouds are inner peace and a problem clearing. Dark ones are anger or sadness about to break, or thinking that has gone cloudy.
Clover
A three-leaf clover is past, present, and future. A four-leaf one is luck, health, love, and wealth, or a problem resolved; a field of white is opportunity just out of reach.
Cloves
Cloves are love, protection, and happiness at home.
Clown
A clown is play, absurdity, and a childish side, and the face matches your mood. It can also be insincerity, or someone hiding behind a mask.
See also Jester.
Club
A club is aggression or submission, depending on who holds it, and also virility. A nightclub is your social life and whether you belong; the card suit is work.
Clubbing
Clubbing is belonging, and either the need to loosen up or the need to settle down.
Clue
Finding a clue means information is entering awareness. It also says notice your surroundings more carefully.
Clumsy
Clumsiness means a situation or a bond is not going smoothly. Ease up on yourself.
Clutter
Clutter says organize one area of life, and possibly let the past go.
Coach
A coach says you need more discipline with yourself.
Coal
Coal is wealth and unused potential, or the moment you are caught misbehaving. Walking on coals means hardship can be crossed.
Coast
The coast is a spiritual edge, where reason meets feeling. It can also mean you are drifting, or that the way ahead is clear.
Coat
A coat is protectiveness, sometimes isolation. Shabby, it is low regard for yourself; fur is luxury and the wish to be admired.
Coat Of Arms
A coat of arms is family roots and identity.
Cobra
A cobra is creative energy, and a situation or bond that has you spellbound.
See also Snake.
Cobwebs
Cobwebs are talent left unused. You may be neglecting a duty or an issue.
Cocaine
Cocaine is emptiness and a wish to dodge a commitment. On the kinder reading, you need more life and energy, without the drug.
Cock
A cock is male pride, showing off, and little regard for others. A rooster's cry is bragging; cocks fighting is an attack on that masculinity.
Cockatiel
A cockatiel or cockatoo means your feelings show on your face. A white cockatoo is calm.
Cocker Spaniel
A cocker spaniel is alertness, and a readiness for companionship.
Cockerel
A cockerel is male aggression. It can also be a warning.
Cockfight
A cockfight means pride or masculinity feels under attack, and you want to defend it.
Cockpit
A cockpit says take the lead and show that you have the situation in hand.
Cockroach
A cockroach is something unclean you need to face, and also endurance and renewal. Fighting roaches are an inner conflict; keeping them as pets is negative traits you are trying to contain.
Cockroaches
Cockroaches are an unwanted part of yourself, alongside stubborn survival. A fight between them is a spiritual conflict you must face; ones coming from your ears are provocation you should not answer in haste.
Cocktails
Cocktails are the need to rest and step away from the daily grind.
See also Alcohol.
Cocoa
Cocoa is a relaxed mind and enjoyment of life.
Coconut
A coconut asks you to be more flexible, and it stands for persistence and leisure. Eating one means you are being stubborn.
Coconuts
Coconuts point to an unexpected gift of money.
Cocoon
A cocoon is safety, solitude, and healing change. Being inside one is the need to restore yourself, or potential not yet used.
Coffee
Coffee says gather a little more understanding before you decide, instead of rushing. Drinking it with someone is warmth toward them; dry grounds are a decision you can hardly accept.
Coffee Bean
Coffee beans are stored energy waiting to be used. They can also be a matter that needs prompt attention.
Coffee Maker
A coffee maker is inner balance disturbed, or your level of alertness. It may be time to wake up to something.
Coffee Shop
A coffee shop says it is time to sit with people you have not seen in a while. It is company and good cheer.
Coffee Table
A coffee table is your circle of people and the togetherness in it.
Coffin
A coffin is fear of death, and also the womb, or a habit ready to be buried. An empty one is a difference that will not heal; a body inside is a low period and a situation that needs to end.
Coins
Coins are chances you overlooked. Gold leans toward wealth, silver toward intuition and self-worth, copper toward healing; flipping one is a decision made too casually.
Cola
See also Soda.
Colander
A colander is emotion you cannot keep contained. It can also say separate feeling from the facts and look more coolly.
Cold
Cold is a breakthrough, or a mood of isolation and emotional restraint, sometimes aimed at a particular person. The word itself says stay neutral when you decide.
Cold Sore
A cold sore is regret over words that hurt.
Coliseum
Performing in a coliseum is making a spectacle of yourself, for good or ill. Ruins there are something that lasts, or a performer in you that you neglect.
Collapse
Collapse means you are pushing too hard and have lost sight of the goal. Trust in your own judgment may be slipping.
Collar
A collar is confinement, in work or in a bond. A ring around it says clean up the way you speak to people.
Colleague
See also Coworker.
Collections
Collections mean you feel hounded. They can also mean pride is stopping you from asking for help.
College
College is social change and a good time to try something new. It can also be stress, and a goal that will take persistence.
Collision
See also Crash.
Colonel
A colonel says stay mindful of other people's feelings. Stripped of rank, the colonel means a plan will not go as you expected.
Colorado
Colorado, if you have never been, says get outside and take what nature offers.
Coloring Book
A coloring book is a carefree, childlike mood, or a warning against idle time. What you color shows an area that wants fuller expression.
See also Crayons.
Colorless
A colorless dream is a low mood and sadness, a self closed off from other people.
Colors
Color is emotion and energy; start with what that hue already means to you. Pale shades are faint, dark ones intense, bright ones awareness. Shifting from color to black and white is a cooler, less emotional look at events.
Colt
A colt is awkwardness and insecurity, and unused potential beginning to move.
Column
Columns are sturdy effort. You may be tired from holding other people up.
Coma
A coma is helplessness, an inability to function while large changes happen around you. It can also echo the stillness of the body during sleep.
Comb
Combing hair is the need to sort your thoughts and find what is unclear in a situation or a bond. It can also be care for looks that crowds out substance.
See also Hair.
Combination Lock
A combination lock is a self shut against other people; the numbers may matter. Forgetting the combination is reluctance to speak fully, or a date you let slip.
Combustion
Combustion is rage that finally breaks out after being held too long.
See also Fire.
Comedian
A comedian says you are overloaded and need to laugh at yourself. The daily weight needs an outlet.
Comedy
Watching a comedy says find the humorous side when things turn intense. Life can be taken less heavily.
Comet
A comet says drop the emotional and physical weight and move toward the goal.
Comforter
A comforter is warmth, love, and protection, a shelter from the outside. It can also be the simple wish to be comforted because you feel low.
Comics
Comics say take yourself less seriously. Collecting them can mean you look only at the good times and deny a problem.
Command
Giving commands is the ability to state what you want, and a call to take a more active role. Being commanded is a lesser role, and maybe a need for more humility.
Commandments
The commandments say good conduct and kept rules bring a reward. A specific one should be read against your current situation.
Commentator
See also Announcer.
Commercials
Commercials are the habit of jumping to the next thing before the first is finished, and of staying emotionally distant. Rapid cuts mean flightiness.
Commune
A commune is withdrawal from the wider society. You are living by a rule set of your own.
Communication
Trouble communicating points to low esteem and a feeling of not being enough.
Communion
Communion is a conflict between material appetite and spiritual value. It can also be betrayal, or a search for acceptance.
Community
A sense of community says tend the ties you have and grow new ones.
Compact Disc
A compact disc is enjoyment and a chance in reach; the music and title matter. Giving it away sends a message in the songs, and the initials may point to something sordid.
Compass
A compass is a correction to the direction of your life. A drafting compass is a path you refuse to leave, and a drive to get things exact.
Compassion
Compassion in a dream means that quality has been missing. Other people need more sympathy from you.
Competition
A competition is the need to grow, endure, and be more assertive. Winning means you already have the skill the waking problem requires.
Complain
Complaining is feeling suppressed and about to surface. The stated complaint usually stands for something else.
Complexion
Your complexion is the face other people believe they see.
Compliment
Giving a compliment says hold your ground and do not let others shake your position. Receiving one is pride; enjoy it without letting it swell.
Composer
A composer is new energy being shaped and sent into some part of your life.
Compost
Compost says recycle an outdated idea or an old experience until it teaches you.
Computer
A computer is information and new opportunity, or a life of going along without feeling or a voice of your own. One that crashes or acts alone is loss of control; strange images it makes can be old regret.
Computer Games
Computer games are a waking situation you either win or lose. A game that ends is something that has finished; the kind of game matters.
Computer Mouse
A computer mouse is control over your thoughts. If it fails, the feeling is confusion.
Concealer
Concealer is something you are hiding, an intention or a feeling. It can also be insecurity about the real self.
Concentration Camp
A concentration camp is fear of difference, in others or in yourself. If you lived through one, a present situation is stirring that same feeling.
Concern
Concern is anxiety in waking life that deserves to be acknowledged. Someone concerned about you means you are behaving recklessly.
Concert
A concert is harmony and cooperation, and a lift in spirits. Holding one is talent you have not yet shown.
Conch Shell
A conch shell is sexual feeling held back. It can also be a warning.
Concrete
Concrete is a solid, clear grasp of a situation, or a mind too rigid to bend. Wet concrete is an issue still unsettled.
Concubine
Being a concubine is giving up your own values to please someone else. Keeping one is a sexual tie with little emotional bond.
Concussion
A concussion means you are not using your full ability. Respond to people instead of waiting for events to move you.
Condo
A condo is the wish for financial or emotional independence. Its condition mirrors where life stands now.
Condom
A wrapped condom is a one-sided view that leaves others no voice, and also sexual possibility. Unwrapped, it is frustration and worry about pregnancy or illness; wearing one is the feeling of being emotionally shielded.
Condor
A condor is a close link to spirit and to insight beyond the ordinary.
Conductor
A conductor is the ability to lead yourself toward clearer awareness.
Cone
A cone is ideas and feelings in motion.
Conference
A conference says hear other people's ideas before you lock a conclusion. Do not close the mind too early.
Confession
A confession is guilt and self-blame, or the start of healing as you let a change in.
Confessional
A confessional is a secret that will not stay hidden. Guilt or shame is pressing to be said.
Confetti
Confetti is achievement and a turn into a larger life. It is also festivity, a win, and release from what was holding you.
Confront
A confrontation is a conflict or a fear you already face while awake. The dream gives you a safer place to meet the person you avoid.
Confucius
Confucius says use ordinary good sense. It also stands for loyalty and duty to family.
Confusion
Confusion in the dream matches a confused waking mind. Find the one puzzling element, or notice that you are being pulled two ways.
Conga Line
A conga line is creative expression missing, a habit of following what others do. It can also be light fun you should allow.
Congratulate
Congratulating someone is your ability to help. Being congratulated means let pride go and ask for help, or it is approval of a choice you made.
Conjoined Twins
See also Siamese Twins.
Conker
A conker means you have been callous toward someone. It can also be a problem to overcome, and playing the game is peer pressure.
Conman
A conman means someone is using you, and your instinct about that may be right. Being one is your own talent for manipulation, and a conscience that has gone quiet.
Connection
A missed train or plane connection is a missed opportunity, or the failure to make contact with someone.
Console
Being consoled means grief you are refusing to show, or feelings that are being overlooked. Consoling someone else means you need more empathy.
Conspiracy
A conspiracy is deception, given or received. The people involved may be sides of you, which means the lie is to yourself.
Constellation
A constellation is parts of life joining into a complex pattern, a mental process. Notice what the figure depicts.
Constipation
Constipation is refusal to release old ways. You hold the past and will not forgive it or let it go.
Construction
A building under construction is work you still owe your mind or body, and a surge of energy and rebuilt confidence. Barefoot on the site means you are not ready to do that work.
Contact Lens
Contact lenses say focus on the task and look closer before you act. They can also mean get in touch with someone; trouble putting them in is trouble paying attention.
Container
A container is thoughts and feelings kept inside instead of spoken. It can also say get better organized.
Contest
A contest is the need to prove you are worthy. Winning is confidence, possibly conceit; losing is esteem too low, or effort not fully given.
Contortionist
A contortionist is a problem that has you twisted up. It can also be flexible thinking, or a habit of bending the facts.
Contraceptive
A contraceptive is creativity held under the surface, or protection against emotional hurt. It can also be anxiety about pregnancy or illness.
Contract
Signing a contract is readiness for a long commitment, in love or in a project. A bad contract says look twice before you bind yourself.
Contrail
A contrail is hope, pride, and possibility. However far you go, you leave a mark on the people behind you.
Control Tower
A control tower says get a better handle on life, one matter at a time. It can also be emotion controlled so tightly that feeling is shut out.
Convent
A convent is the need for spiritual support and quiet, away from forces that cloud judgment. It can also mean you are blocked from expressing yourself.
Convention
A convention is the need for contact, and a reminder that your choices affect other people. It also gathers scattered parts of you; the kind of meeting shows what is missing.
Conversion
A conversion is hope that a problem can be changed, and your ability to adapt.
Convertible
A convertible is a glamorous stance, power and influence put on display.
Conveyer Belt
A conveyor belt is a rut. The daily round has become predictable and too easy.
Convict
Being a convict is a bond or situation that restricts you, or shame you should stop using as punishment. Seeing one is a part of you that cannot speak freely.
Cooking
Cooking is the wish to influence people so they like you or need you, and also a nurturing side. Trouble at the stove means you are trying too hard.
Cooking Oil
Cooking oil is a change that goes smoothly.
Cooler
A cooler is someone emotionally cold, often a woman in your life. It can also say steady yourself and keep your temper.
Cop
See also Police.
Copier
A copier is a lack of original thought, a tendency to copy other people's ideas. It can also be the wish to spread a message.
Copper
Copper is healing, and a flow of ideas between you and a situation or other people.
Copycat
See also Mimic.
Copyright
Copyright is a claim on work that is yours, and worry about who gets the credit. Someone may be using what you made, or you may be unsure what you have a right to call your own.
Coral
Coral is protection and the beauty of being alive. Admitting what you feel is part of a rewarding life; it can also mean cleansing.
Cord
A cord is a lack of independence, the sense of being tied. Cut, it is a bond that held you back now breaking.
Coriander
Coriander is long life, and an emotionally steady, healthy state.
Cork
Cork is versatility, the ability to stay afloat when things are rough. A cork popping is male sexual release.
Corkscrew
A corkscrew, especially one that will not work, is some part of life spinning out of control. It can also be a new idea just starting.
Cormorant
See also Loon.
Corn
Corn is abundance, growth, and fertility, or something a bit silly. A field of it is peace at home.
Cornbread
Cornbread is family ties and the comfort of home. It also stands for confidence.
Corndog
A corndog is brief, simple pleasure, and a burst of male energy and vigor.
Corner
A corner is frustration and little control over a decision. You feel trapped, and sometimes you are punishing yourself.
Cornfield
A cornfield is the wish to escape daily demands. It can also mean someone is listening, and attention is on you.
Cornflower
Cornflower is hope, togetherness, and unity.
Cornrows
Cornrows, if you do not wear them, say organize your thoughts. They also mean a reserved attitude, something held back.
Cornucopia
A cornucopia is abundance, fertility, and prosperity, and a joining of feminine and masculine strengths.
Corpse
A corpse is a part of you that has gone dead, or a self that has shut down and stopped expressing anything.
Correction Tape
Correction tape is the wish for a clean start. It can also mean mistakes pushed under instead of learned from.
Corridor
A corridor is a passage between stages, inner growth and new chances. A long one is desperation to escape a repeating pattern, or many options still to weigh.
Corsage
A corsage is a part of you that wants to be acknowledged. It is also a mark of honor.
Corset
A corset is restraint, the feeling of being limited. It can mean you swallow displeasure in order to please people.
Cosmetics
See also Makeup.
Cost
The cost of something is the value you put on your time and ability. High means you rate yourself well; low means you undervalue yourself or someone else.
Costume
A costume is a front. You are not showing the real self, and you are not being fully honest.
Costume Party
A costume party is escape from real demands. You want pleasure without the daily responsibility.
Cottage
A cottage is comfort, peace, and a simple quiet life. It can also be a softer reality you use to step away from problems at home, which still need to be met one by one.
Cotton
Picking cotton is hard work with little return, or parts of you in harmony. Wearing it is simplicity.
Cotton Ball
A cotton ball says apply yourself to an important project. It can also be purity, or a situation that needs a lighter touch.
Cotton Candy
Cotton candy is a childhood pleasure or a reward. You are content with how things are going.
Couch
A couch is rest, laziness, or boredom, and a mind that needs clearing. Who shares it colors the mood, sometimes toward intimacy.
Cougar
A cougar is wild beauty, power, and feminine force, sometimes a particular woman. It can also be danger waiting nearby.
Cough Drops
Cough drops mean you need coaxing before you will discuss an issue. Something is holding the words back.
Coughing
Coughing is fear or dissatisfaction about what is ahead, and a need for distance. Coughing blood is energy spent on work that goes nowhere.
Counselor
A counselor means you are looking for support and direction. Listen to what is said; the dream is trying to tell you something to act on.
Counter
Standing at a counter is a search for advice and for options, or a lack you want filled. It can also mean make a counteroffer and learn to compromise.
Counterfeit
Counterfeit money is feeling unworthy, or talent being cheapened. Something is not what it seems, or you are pretending to be someone you are not.
Counting
Counting is rigidity, a discipline so tight you need to relax. It can also mean people can rely on you.
Country
Another country is a change of life. Fear there means you are not ready to leave the past; happiness means you are. Your home country is unfinished feeling, or loyalty to family.
Country Club
A country club is social status and the feeling of belonging to a special group.
Countryside
The countryside is a wish for a simpler life and a free mind. It can also be openness missing from the daily round.
Couple
A couple stands for marriage, your parents, or a bond. What they are doing shows what may be missing in your own life.
Coupons
Coupons are the effort to stretch resources. Be more careful with money or with energy.
Courage
Great courage means you are willing to face rejected parts of yourself. The dream may be practice for something you must do awake.
Court
Standing in court is a struggle with fear and guilt. You feel judged and under pressure to defend yourself.
Courthouse
A courthouse means you are being judged.
Cousin
A cousin is a trait that feels familiar and needs more development. One who ignores you is a side of yourself you will not acknowledge; love for a cousin is acceptance of each other's qualities.
Cover
Covering something is a part of yourself you are afraid to show. Notice what you are hiding.
Cow
A cow is a passive nature that obeys without question, or a motherly wish to be cared for and to nourish. Milking one is willingness to work hard for a later benefit; a skeleton is a mother figure who has gone emotionally cold.
Coward
A coward is fear of seeing and being your real self. That fear is what blocks your growth.
Cowboy
A cowboy is masculinity, toughness, and control over raw instinct.
Coworker
Coworkers bring the real mix of support and friction from work, plus ambition and competition. Training your replacement is inner growth, old attitudes left as you look ahead.
See also Office.
Cowrie Shells
Cowrie shells are an easygoing attitude, and also fertility and womanhood. They can mark the value you assign to things.
Coyote
A coyote is deception and weakness. An attack by coyotes is a struggle with your own selfish needs.
CPR
Giving CPR means a fear or tension has been resolved, and it can stand for creativity. Receiving it means you are exhausted and looking for advice.
Crab
A crab is perseverance that can turn into clinging to a hopeless bond. It is also avoidance, and an irritable mood.
Crack
A crack is an imperfection in a thing, a thought, or a relationship. It can also be the strain of trying to keep your composure.
Crackers
Crackers are care for other people that leaves your own needs last. They can also mean you want a particular person to give up a secret.
Cradle
A cradle is a dependent bond, the wish to be protected, and a cue to take more independence back. It can also be a new project.
Crafting
Crafting is resourcefulness and a hands-on approach. It can also mean you are being cunning or manipulative.
Cramp
A cramp says stop and reconsider the choice. It can also mean you are overworked; where it sits matters.
Cranberries
Cranberries are long life, good health, and warmth with other people. The juice says cut down on stress.
Crane
A crane is happiness, maternal care, and goodwill toward people close to you. It can also be tact, long life, or watchfulness.
Crank Call
Making a crank call is frustration at not being taken seriously. Receiving one is the sense that information is being kept from you.
Crash
A car crash is beliefs or goals colliding with someone else's, or a shocking hurt; it can also mirror careless driving. A plane crash is aims set too high, and doubt that you can reach them.
Crash Test Dummy
A crash test dummy is the impact other people are having on your life.
Crate
A crate is a positive outlook, potential, and drive toward success.
Crater
A crater is an inner layer slowly opening, and memory from the past.
Crawfish
A crawfish is tenacity, the refusal to let go of the effort.
Crawl Space
A crawl space is the mind beneath the surface. Moving through it is a slow, careful look at that hidden layer.
Crawling
Crawling is careful progress toward a goal, or a lowering of your standards. Crawling from wreckage is willpower; someone crawling toward you is a wish for power or control.
Crayons
Crayons are a carefree childhood memory and creativity that need not stay inside the lines. The color adds its own note.
Crazy
Going crazy means you have lost sight of the goal, or you can no longer depend on someone. It can also be opinions ignored, the feeling of standing outside.
Cream
Cream is pleasure in small sweet things, and nourishment. Face cream is a beautiful inner character, or the personality you show others.
Creatures
A faceless creature is a situation you refuse to look at, though you already sense it. It brings fear and insecurity.
Credit
Getting credit is acceptance of duty, and pride in yourself.
Credit Card
A credit card is worth, credibility, and your attitude toward debt. Owing on it is an imbalance; losing it is carelessness; a decline is low self-worth or living beyond your means.
Credit Score
A credit score is whether you feel you measure up, and sometimes real money worry. A low number is shaky confidence; a high one is a strong sense of worth.
Creek
A creek is personal energy flowing at a steady pace. A dry one is being cut off from yourself; being stuck without a way through is trouble.
Creeper
A creeper says approach the goal from another angle. You need a fresh view of where life is headed.
Cremains
Cremains are change, and a return to the self you actually are.
Cremation
Cremation is purification and the end of one phase so another can start. If the person has died, the dream is part of grieving them kindly.
Crepe
Eating a crepe is the effort to hold together while still looking composed. Crepe fabric says life will not always be smooth, and the small obstacles are worth learning from.
Crescent
A crescent is a feminine side emerging, and a capacity for change.
Crib
A crib is a new idea you are tending with care, and a protective nature. It can also be the wish for a baby, or a pregnancy already on your mind, and sometimes a pun on home.
Cricket
A cricket is inward listening and a search for guidance; the sound is small things bothering you. The game is a goal in sight and a new chance opening.
Crickets
Crickets are a turn inward, looking for guidance. Their sound is minor irritations getting more attention than they deserve.
Crime
A crime is guilt and shame. Inner fear is what slows your growth.
Crime Scene Tape
Crime scene tape is a barrier around something in you, stopping a deeper look. It is also restriction.
Criminal
Being a criminal is the search for a shortcut, and a self sold short. It can also mean you feel owed certain things.
Cripple
See also Handicap.
Critic
A critic is judgment aimed too hard at others or at a situation. It can also be self-discipline.
Crochet
Crochet is a situation you are getting tangled in. Doing the work yourself is creativity.
Crock Pot
A crock pot says attack a problem from more than one source. Patience and steady work pay off if you stay with them.
Crocodile
A crocodile is hidden strength and hidden danger, often bad advice from someone close. It can be your own snappish temper, or false feeling; being chased or bitten is a painful inner truth you refuse to face.
Crocus
A crocus asks for clearer thinking on the matter in front of you.
Croissant
A croissant is a lack of affection, a space waiting to be filled.
Crooked
Something crooked means a situation is not right. Someone may be lying to you.
Crop
Tending a crop is growth, care for yourself, and work that will repay you.
Cross
A cross is a burden, sacrifice, and religious faith, or irritation you are carrying. One swinging like a pendulum is faith you are no longer sure of.
Cross-Dressing
Cross-dressing asks you to acknowledge the masculine side if you are a woman, or the feminine side if you are a man. A male relative dressed as a woman is the wish that he meet you with more feeling.
Crossbones
Crossbones are danger and poison. They can also evoke a pirate's life.
Crossbow
A crossbow says aim more precisely, and go at the goal in a more direct line.
Crossing
Crossing a street means you are stepping into danger, or standing apart from the crowd and taking the heat. Crossing water marks a spiritual change.
Crossing Gate
A crossing gate coming down is a temporary setback. Raised, it means an obstacle is no longer blocking the goal.
Crossroads
A crossroads is a real decision, with paths that lead to different ends. It is also a change of direction.
Crosswalk
A crosswalk means the risks you accept are measured ones.
Crossword Puzzle
A crossword is a mental challenge. It can also be sharp words, given or received.
Crouton
A crouton is a flat, uninspired mood. You need encouragement.
Crow
A crow is an ending, a darker trait, or an annoying habit. Killing one is a habit you refuse to drop; one that kills a person is an ending you cannot dodge, often the close of a situation or a bond.
Crowbar
A crowbar is a forced entry into feelings you may not be ready to face. Being struck with one means someone is making you confront an issue before you can.
Crowd
A crowd is the need for solitude, or pressure to conform when your own view feels small. Standing apart is either loneliness or real independence; an unruly crowd is worries pressing in.
Crown
A crown is success and prominence. Wearing one is power, or the pleasure of recognizing what you have done.
Crucifix
A crucifix is new life, guidance, and hardship you are bearing. Upside down, some part of life is in disorder and hard to believe.
Crucify
Being crucified is self-punishment. Guilt is the feeling underneath.
Cruel
Cruelty is stored hostility finally released, including a harsh side of your own character. Cruelty aimed at you says build more emotional strength.
Cruise
A cruise is an emotional journey. It can also mean you are moving through situations with ease.
Crumbs
Crumbs are the feeling of being left out, an outsider in some group.
Crush
Crushing something is heavy stress over a decision; a crushed body is expression blocked. A crush on someone is real attraction, and a repeated dream of them may be the moment to say so or to move on.
Crutches
Crutches are the need to lean on other people. Sometimes you play helpless to get out of a duty.
Cry
Crying is a release of feeling the day would not let out. Someone else crying may be your own sadness placed on them; waking in tears is hurt that will no longer stay down.
Cryopreservation
Cryopreservation is being stuck in how things used to be.
Crystal
A crystal is wholeness, healing, and something in your life taking a clear shape. Looking into one is a search inside for where you are meant to go.
Crystal Ball
A crystal ball is a search for guidance, and your picture of the future.
Crystal Skull
A crystal skull is a mystery still beyond your grasp. Your own skull turning to crystal is the sense that people can see through you, or a call to use insight across past, present, and future.
Cub
A cub is innocence, play, and mischief. It can also stand for your children or your siblings.
Cube
A cube is material possessions and earthly concerns. It can also mean you are being too conventional.
Cuckoo
A cuckoo is unfaithfulness, an unwelcome presence, or bad timing that says change your approach. It can also be someone behaving wildly, possibly you intruding on others.
Cucumber
A cucumber is recovery, the need to regain energy and health. It can also stand for male sexuality.
Cuddle
Cuddling is the need for physical or emotional contact, often with that particular person. The one you hold also shows qualities you need to accept in yourself.
Cult
A cult is a destructive or manipulative bond that uses you, or a wish for devotion and community. Leading one is an authoritarian streak that allows no questions.
Cultivate
Cultivating says clear negative thoughts. An open mind is what lets you grow.
Cup
A cup is love, care, and replenishment; whether it is half full is your optimism or pessimism. A broken cup or handle is inadequacy and the fear that you cannot handle a situation.
Cupboard
Opening a cupboard reveals a hidden truth. Closing it, or putting something inside, is a problem you are refusing to face.
Cupcake
A cupcake is a small sweet reward you feel you deserve. It can also say make some part of life smaller so it is easier to manage.
Cupid
Cupid is a love relationship, and a prompt to take a risk in it.
Curb
A curb is a restriction. It can also name a habit you ought to rein in.
Cure
A cure is positive change ahead, things turning better. It is also hope.
Curfew
A curfew is a situation on a clock, and the weight of other people's expectations. Missing it is fear of change, or time already run out.
Curlers
Curlers are thinking in circles, the same problem walked again with no conclusion.
Curling
Curling is teamwork. Sometimes the goal needs other people, and you can still shape your own path.
Curling Iron
A curling iron is an attempt to disguise what you really feel.
Current
A current is the direction your choices have set, and the influences that guide you. It can also be whatever is happening now.
Curry
Curry is emotional sensitivity and a quick temper, or wit and intellect. It can also be the feeling that you are impressive.
Curse
Being under a curse is guilt you are caught in, and a situation that needs caution. Cursing is inner fear, and a self that is hardening.
Curtain Rod
A curtain rod means you are revealing more than you meant to. Some things should stay held back.
Curtains
Shutting curtains is secrecy and thoughts pushed down. Opening them is readiness to show something hidden; a stage curtain rising is personal growth, and one falling is an ending you need to accept.
Curtsy
A curtsy is respect for something larger than you, and a willingness to yield to it.
Cushion
A cushion is the need for more rest. It can also say soften the blow of a hurtful situation or a sharp remark.
Cussing
See also Swearing.
Custard
Custard is appreciation for small things, and a life that still holds sweetness and care.
Custard Apple
A custard apple is a lift in spirit, contentment and calm.
Customer
Customers are people who share your view. An empty shop means you feel alone with your ideas; being the customer means you want those ideas approved.
Customs
Customs is scrutiny and criticism. It also says stay on guard.
Cut
A cut is the feeling of being let down or undermined, and it can reflect a feminine attitude toward sex. Marks you make on your own skin point to turmoil you are trying to split off; name that hurt instead of acting on it.
Cuticles
Cuticles mean you are being overly sensitive, and may be overreacting.
Cutlass
See also Machete.
Cutting
Cutting is a relationship broken or a connection severed. It can also be a habit or a food you need to drop.
Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish means your feelings are clear and you are saying them in a healthy way. There is no muddle about the person or the situation.
Cyborg
A cyborg says balance cool judgment with personal feeling. You may also be too rigid in how you think.
Cyclamen
Cyclamen is feminine allure, seduction, and lust.
Cyclone
A cyclone is emotional turmoil you are fighting.
Cyclops
A cyclops is a narrow mind, or focus so tight it leaves everything else out.
Cylinder
An open cylinder is receptiveness to new ideas. A closed one is caution about what you share of yourself.
Cymbals
Cymbals are an overreaction, noise out of proportion to the cause. They can also be a link to spirit.
Cypress
A cypress is death, the hidden mind, and a season of mourning and sadness.
Cyst
A cyst is something that needs to be said and brought into the open, often a prejudice or a sour feeling pressing for release. Where it sits on the body adds the meaning.