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.
E
E
The letter E means ease. It can also name the drug called ecstasy.
Eagles
An eagle means pride, courage, and a mind aimed high. A chained one means you feel caged, and killing one means ambition that will harm people around you.
Earlobe
Long earlobes point to ancestry, spirit, or social rank. Stretching them means you want that connection, or you want to stand apart from the usual.
Earmuffs
Earmuffs mean you hear only what you prefer. On someone else, they mean you cannot get people to listen.
Earphones
See also Headphones.
Earplugs
Earplugs mean you are refusing a fact, or cutting yourself off from people.
Earrings
Earrings ask you to listen to a message more carefully. Broken ones mean talk about you, and a lost one means you are being led astray.
Ears
Ears mean you should take guidance instead of trusting only your own read. Wax you will not clear means there is something you refuse to hear.
Earth
Earth underfoot asks you to stay realistic when security feels thin. The planet as a whole means you are tied to a wider world, and its core holds anger you have not let out.
Earthquake
An earthquake means a shock is threatening the ground you stand on. Finding cover means you can get through it, and being trapped means a real loss.
Earthworm
An earthworm means go deeper for feelings you have buried. Small things, like the worm itself, can still renew you.
Earwax
Too much earwax means there is something you will not hear.
Earwig
An earwig means unpleasant news touching both work and family.
East
Heading east means inner wisdom and a fresh start. It can also mean you are already pointed the right way.
Easter
Easter means the worst of a dark stretch is over. It also marks a spiritual renewal.
Easter Egg
Easter eggs mean unused potential and a sense of wonder. They can also mark time passing.
Easter Island
Easter Island means a look inward and a link to something larger than you. It can also be a wish to visit a much older world.
Eating
Eating alone can mean loneliness, or a need to stand on your own. Eating with others means warmth and shared gain, and refusing food means you want less dependence.
Eating Contest
An eating contest means company has been replaced by food, or that you can work through feelings quickly. The food shows which part of life feels empty.
Eavesdropping
Eavesdropping means news you will not like, or the sense that something is being kept from you.
Ebony
Ebony means mystery, richness, and an attractive smoothness.
See also Black.
Ebook
An ebook means knowledge close at hand. It can also be an idea you still cannot fully grasp, much like an ordinary book.
Echo
An echo means you repeat yourself hoping to be believed. Your own voice coming back can mean mockery, or old acts returning.
Eclipse
A solar eclipse means self-doubt and the sense of being overshadowed. A lunar one means a hidden side is coming forward, and the light returning means a new way of seeing the problem.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy means joy, especially among people close to you.
Editor
Being an editor means you are censoring what you say and managing your feelings.
Education
Education means a hunger for knowledge and a sense that you are ahead of your peers.
See also School.
Eel
An eel means trouble with commitment and with holding on. It can also carry a sexual meaning.
Egg
An egg means fertility and a new possibility about to arrive. Cracked eggs mean a fragile moment, or a shell you are finally leaving.
Eggplant
Eggplant means you are content where you are, with loyalty and passion close by.
Eggshells
Eggshells mean a fragile state of mind. They also say it is time to come out of your shell.
Egret
An egret points to a relationship where each person leans too hard on the other.
Egypt
Egypt means the root of your feeling and your spirit, and a time when life felt simpler.
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower means a strong, lasting support around you. It can also stand for romance.
See also Paris.
Eight Ball
The eight ball means you leave outcomes to chance, or feel stuck behind a bad position. The number eight may matter on its own.
Ejaculation
Ejaculation means a need for release, emotional or sexual. It can also mean control has slipped.
Elastic
See also Rubber Band.
Elbows
An elbow means you need room of your own and hesitate to take it. The image can also mean a task needs harder work.
Elderberries
Elderberries mean comfort at home.
Elderly
An elderly person brings wisdom you should hear. New baby teeth on an old face mean life coming back around.
Election
An election means a choice that will affect other people.
Electric Blanket
An electric blanket means save your energy and rest. It can also mean you cannot keep your own needs supplied.
Electric Chair
An electric chair means a sudden end and a drastic change. It can also mean guilt over something you did.
Electric Fence
An electric fence means anger has isolated you, or that people stay back because your temper runs hot.
Electric Guitar
An electric guitar means passion you state clearly. It also carries youth and rebellion.
Electric Saw
An electric saw means you can cut straight to the center of a problem.
Electricity
Electricity means life energy that needs renewing or conserving. A dead current means you have lost perspective.
Electricity Tower
An electricity tower means power should be shared, not held alone. It also stands for industry and the modern world.
Electrocution
Electrocution means the course you are on leads to harm. Notice the people and conditions around you.
Elemental Bending
Bending fire means you can steer anger, water means you can steer feeling, air means you watch your words, and earth means you time your actions well.
Elephant
An elephant asks for patience and for letting go of a memory you have carried too long. It also means strength, and a white one can mean royalty or a political loyalty you recognize.
Elevator
An elevator rising means status or a higher view, and one falling means a return to earth or a setback. A car that will not let you off means you feel stuck.
Eleventh Hour
The eleventh hour means time is nearly gone for a decision or a deadline.
Elf
An elf means life is out of balance, or that you need a lighter mood. The figure can also guide you.
Elimination
See also Bowel Movement.
Elk
An elk means strength and stamina, and a nudge to see friends and eat better.
Elm
An elm means misfortune and an ending.
Elopement
Eloping means you are trying to escape daily problems while keeping spirit, feeling, and ordinary life in some balance.
Eloquent
Being eloquent means you are ready for a task or an event ahead.
Email
Email means reach people who are not physically near. It can also mean the screen has followed you into sleep.
Embankment
An embankment means trouble and unhappiness are close, and success feels like a struggle.
Embarrassment
Embarrassment reveals a hidden weakness and thin confidence. Sexual unease may sit underneath.
Emblem
An emblem ties you to culture and ancestry, and it steadies you.
Embrace
Embracing yourself means accepting who you are. Embracing someone else means you need more affection, or need to show it.
Embroidery
Embroidery means you can make the best of whatever arrives.
Embryo
An embryo means a new idea emerging, or a vulnerable feeling that wants protection. In pregnancy it may simply reflect the body.
Emerald
An emerald means durability, faithfulness, and a situation entering a healing stage.
Emergency
An emergency means something urgent needs you now. A hard lesson is close.
Emergency Alert System
An emergency alert is a call to put a neglected part of life in order.
Emergency Room
An emergency room means the way you are living is doing harm. Look at the consequences.
Emery Board
An emery board means smooth the rough edges of your manner. You may be harsher than you mean to be.
Emigration
Emigrating means you are unhappy where you are and want a change. It can also mean you are fleeing a problem instead of facing it.
Emoticon
Emoticons mean feelings are crowding you, or that someone is treating those feelings as trivial.
Emotionless
Feeling nothing means you have closed yourself off and are neglecting your own reactions.
Emotions
Feelings in sleep let you try what you hold back while awake. Mixed, opposing feelings mean the waking mind and the deeper one are in conflict.
Emperor
An emperor means a creative work brought to completion, and an effort to keep peace.
Employee
An employee reflects the working relationship you have with that person. A new employee means a new side of yourself.
See also Office.
Employment
Employment means your talents are being used, or that work needs more of your attention. It can also measure how you value yourself.
Empress
An empress means honor, influence, and the risk that power is getting the better of you. She can also stand for a great mother figure.
Emptiness
Emptiness means something is missing, or that effort has produced nothing. An empty container, oddly, can mean optimism.
Emu
An emu means you recover from feeling quickly and notice a great deal. It can also mean you are overbearing.
Enchantment
Being enchanted means someone is steering you toward your own harm.
Enchantress
An enchantress stands for a woman's power to sway other people.
Enclosure
An enclosure means you are on guard and protecting yourself. If it shrinks, the limit feels tighter, and glass walls mean you are too critical.
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia means a search for knowledge and art, even when it will not pay.
End
An ending means a goal reached, a bad stretch finishing, or time running out on a decision. It also opens whatever comes next.
End Credits
End credits mean you want your work recognized. Your own name there means you trust that you can succeed.
Enemy
An enemy stands for opposing ideas, or for a part of you that works against you. Dealing with the enemy can settle that inner fight.
Energizer Bunny
The Energizer Bunny means steady persistence. The message is to keep going.
Energy
Energy means growth and insight that need a useful channel.
Engagement
An engagement means a wish for commitment and security, or loneliness you want resolved. Breaking one means a hasty decision, and a business engagement means worry at work.
Engagement Ring
An engagement ring means you are weighing a long commitment. If you plan to ask, the ring also holds the nerves around that question.
Engine
An engine is the power at your center. One that will not start means an obstacle, a ruined one means betrayal or old habits in the way, and one on fire means heartbreak or fierce passion for a goal.
Engineer
An engineer means you are taking charge and seeing how the pieces of a situation fit.
Engineering
Engineering means you can shape the world around you and feel able to do it.
England
England means renewal, or a noble sense of yourself.
Entertainment
Entertainment puts a piece of your life in public view. Performing yourself means the point is to be admired.
Entrails
Entrails mean despair. Harming someone else's points to a cruel wish to advance yourself.
See also Intestines.
Entrance
See also Door.
Envelope
An envelope means anticipation, a message when opened, or sorrow when a stack stays sealed. You may also be testing a limit.
Environment
The environment means freedom and renewal. A dead landscape means a relationship feels barren, and environmental trouble can mean you matter in the larger picture or feel powerless inside it.
Envy
Envying others carries a waking feeling into sleep. Being envied means you think well of yourself and expect respect.
Epaulet
Epaulets mean you want someone else to make the hard call. Wearing them means honor and a rigid manner that may push your views onto others.
Epicure
An epicure means refined taste and the ability to use your full potential.
Epidemic
An epidemic means worry over tasks that nag at you.
Epilepsy
Epilepsy, as a dream image, means feelings you are holding down and need to say.
Equal Sign
An equal sign means balance. As two parallel lines it can also stand for eleven.
Equation
An equation means you want a rational solution to a waking problem. A wrong answer means the approach itself is off.
Equator
The equator means a search for the self and for the parts that would make you whole.
Eraser
An eraser means mistakes that need clearing.
Erection
An erection means creative energy and a wish to act. For a man it can also mean worry about sexual function.
Ermine
Ermine means luxury and greed. Other people wearing it ties you to wealth.
Erosion
Erosion means a relationship is wearing away under an outside pressure. Give it more attention.
Erotica
Erotica means sexual appetite and a wish to loosen inhibition. It is common near a wedding or while you are recovering vitality after a hard time.
Errands
Errands mean a life stuck in routine, or harmony in the household.
Eruption
An eruption means repressed urges breaking out with force, or an upheaval already underway.
Escalator
An escalator moves you between levels of awareness. Going up means you are facing feelings, and going down means they are sinking out of sight again.
Escape
Escaping confinement means you need out of a tight situation, or that you are avoiding the problem. Failing to escape means you feel helpless.
Eskimo
An Eskimo means feelings that have gone cold, or a good adaptation to harsh conditions. An igloo can be a warm person behind a cold exterior.
ESP
ESP means trust the hunch. The deeper mind is sending a direct message.
Espresso
Espresso means act quickly, before the chance passes.
Essay
Writing an essay means think a situation through before you act. Reading one can mean a deadline or a test.
Estate
Owning an estate means your security has to come from you, not from other people.
Estranged
Someone you are estranged from means you want the connection back, or you want a neglected part of yourself back.
ET
See also Extraterrestrial.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus means a need for protection, and also healing and change. It can mark a situation that has turned sticky.
Eulogy
Giving a eulogy means thoughts you have held back need to be said. Hearing your own means you are reviewing what you have done, or ending an old attitude.
Eunuch
A eunuch means fear around sex, or a loss of creative power. Being one means you fear that an essential part of you is gone.
Europe
Europe, if it is not home, means be more expressive and make room for art and leisure. If it is home, it may simply be your landscape or your loyalty to it.
Euthanasia
Euthanasia means you want old habits ended on your terms. An animal put down points to the end of a purely physical behavior.
Evacuation
An evacuation means you have stepped away from people and kept your feelings shut. An emptied town means rejection.
Evaporation
Water evaporating means you can understand your feelings and lift yourself to another level.
Eve
Eve means opposition in social or business circles. The name can also point to evening, and playing her means be careful of persuasion from a lover.
Even Numbers
Even numbers mean balance and calm.
Evening
Evening means a cycle ending, aging, or hopes that never landed.
Evening Gown
An evening gown means social pleasure and the image you project. Ornate means luxury, plain means a simpler life, and wearing one can mean you are reaching for happiness.
Evergreen
Evergreens mean lasting vitality, high aims, and hope inside a hard time. They can also ask you to live more lightly on the world.
Eviction
Eviction means a situation or relationship leaves you powerless and unsure you belong. You may also feel the treatment is unfair.
Evil
Evil stands for a forbidden part of you that wants to be acknowledged, or for hate and anger you have stored.
Ex
An ex appears when a present relationship wakes the old feelings from that pairing. Use what you learned then, and do not assume the night is asking you to reunite.
Ex Girlfriend
An ex-girlfriend who is pregnant with your child can mean a wish to return, while a child that is not yours means you have accepted the ending. Your current partner's ex points to insecurity about whether you measure up.
Ex-Boyfriend
An ex-boyfriend from early life recalls a lighter romance and a vitality missing now. Wanting him back may be that feeling, or simply the wish to be wanted again.
Ex-Friend
An ex-friend means a recent event reminded you of them, or that the lesson of the falling-out applies to a current problem.
Exam
An exam means fear of failing other people's expectations and of failing your own.
Excavation
Excavating means personal growth and potential you are uncovering.
Excavator
An excavator means you are ready to clear old beliefs and face what has been holding you back.
Exchange
An exchange of ideas or gifts means community. You receive by giving.
Excitement
Strong excitement can fill a waking life that feels dull, or it can mean you are waiting on big news.
Exclamation Point
An exclamation point means surprise, vigor, or disbelief. It can also mark urgency.
Exclude
Being excluded means rejection and doubt about whether you can keep up. Excluding someone else means you are ready to leave the past.
Excrement
See also Feces.
Execution
An execution means someone or something should be cut out of your life. Your own means guilt, or a habit you want gone.
Executive
An executive means you want to rise at work. The word can also mean it is time to carry a plan out.
Exercise
Exercise means worry about health or appearance, or a literal need to move more. It can also mean use the rights and power you already have.
Exfoliate
Exfoliating means you are ready to lower your guard and show a truer self.
Exhausted
See also Tired.
Exhibit
An exhibit asks you to look closely at the different sides of your life. It can also mean you want more culture around you.
Exhibitionist
Sex in a public place means you feel exposed in the public part of your life, as if criticism has nowhere to hide.
Exile
Exile means you feel alone and out of place in a new setting.
Exit
An exit sign means a waking bind you want to leave.
Exorcism
An exorcism means you are taking back direction of your life. It can also mean you want a scapegoat instead of owning what you did.
Expedition
An expedition means an emotional journey with no clear end, or a nudge to try a new interest.
Expelled
Being expelled means rejection. What got you expelled echoes an action in waking life.
Expense
See also Finances.
Experiment
Running an experiment means take a chance on something new. Being the subject means you feel helpless and decided for.
Expert
Being an expert means solid confidence in your ability.
Expiration
An expiration date means time has run out on a project or a chance. It can also touch fear that you will not finish, or a sense of your own mortality.
Explore
Exploring new land means self-discovery and a look at what actually drives you.
Explosion
An explosion means anger you held in has broken the surface. Hearing it without seeing it means something hidden is about to become clear.
Expressway
See also Freeway.
Extension Cord
An extension cord means seek energetic people, and wake the parts of you that have been idle.
Exterminator
An exterminator means cut ties with people who pull you down. Being one means face your weaknesses and the challenges ahead.
Extraterrestrial
An extraterrestrial means ideas that run past ordinary limits, or a wish to leave daily life behind.
See also Aliens.
Eye Chart
An eye chart means a part of life needs sharper focus and written goals. Letters you cannot read mean the picture in front of you is misleading.
Eye Color
Eye color unlike your own means you need a fresh way of seeing. Red can mean anger or energy, brown withdrawal, green envy, blue strong feeling, and mismatched colors an acceptance of opposing views.
Eye Contact
Eye contact means confidence and a wish for connection.
Eye Drops
Eye drops mean you want a clearer view and may be overlooking the obvious.
Eye Mask
An eye mask means you are refusing an awkward truth.
Eye Of Horus
The Eye of Horus means a protective watch over you, and a sign of healing.
Eye Of Providence
The all-seeing eye means new understanding. It can also mean little gets past you.
Eye Patch
An eye patch means you are taking only one side of a question and refusing another view.
Eye Shadow
Eye shadow means you are building an air of mystery. Too much of it means you are dramatizing a situation.
Eyebrows
Eyebrows show surprise, doubt, or disapproval. Missing ones mean feeling is not getting out, and a single brow can mean insecurity about how you look.
Eyeglasses
Glasses you do not usually wear mean a situation needs a clearer look. Broken ones mean your reading of the facts is off, and 3D glasses mean consider every angle.
Eyelashes
Noticeable eyelashes mean you are expressing yourself quietly, and they can mean luck. All of them falling means that expression, or a feminine strength, is failing.
Eyelid
Eyelids mean you are trying to shut someone or something out. One falling off means you can no longer block what you must face.
Eyeliner
Eyeliner draws attention to something that needs your focus.
Eyes
Your eyes mean understanding, and sometimes a look inward. One eye means you refuse another viewpoint, a third eye means insight you have not used, and injured or closed eyes mean you will not see a truth.
Eyesight
Blurred sight means errors in judgment and uncertainty about the choice in front of you.