Dream Dictionary

J

• J

  The hooked shape of this letter is something you are meant to keep your grip on. It may also name a person called Jay, or anyone whose name begins with J.

  Alphabet

• Jab

  Jabbing someone means you should step forward and act, instead of talking yourself out of it. Say the thing directly.

• Jabberwock

  The Jabberwock shows scattered attention and doubt about what your body can manage. Bringing it down means a real threat, or a large block in your path, has been dealt with.

• Jack

  A jack under a load means you are looking for steadiness. It may also point to a person in your life who carries that name.

• Jack Frost

  Jack Frost is someone who stays chilly and hard to reach, often a person who bristles when fault is named. It can also be winter itself, and the memories that season brings back.

• Jack In The Box

  A jack-in-the-box is a welcome surprise waiting to spring. It can also mean you are wound tight over a worry that will not sit still.

• Jack O' Lantern

  A jack-o'-lantern is a watchful spirit standing guard for you. Carving one means you are putting on a hard face that does not go very deep.

• Jackal

  A jackal marks the habit of living off other people. You take from them instead of standing on your own effort.

• Jackdaw

  A jackdaw asks you to give more freely instead of holding everything close. It can also mark the close of something.

• Jacket

  A jacket is the face you want the world to see, and the shell you use to keep feeling at a distance. Color, cut, and wear add the detail.

  Clothing

• Jackfruit

  Jackfruit speaks of plenty and of fruitfulness. A larger fruit means a larger stroke of good fortune.

• Jackhammer

  A jackhammer says stale views and worn-out habits need to be broken apart so a different way can start.

  Tools

• Jackpot

  A jackpot means you are leaning too hard on impulse and luck. It can also say that a real risk is what would bring the payoff.

• Jacks

  Playing jacks shows you gathering what life scatters: small facts, ideas, and useful pieces you can actually use.

• Jacob's Ladder

  Jacob's ladder is the span between ordinary life and a higher one, joining body and spirit. Each rung stands for trust, hope, or open-handedness.

• Jacuzzi

  Time in a Jacuzzi means bitter feeling needs to be soaked out, including resentment that has settled around sex.

• Jade

  Jade belongs to growth, mending, good fortune, and a character that is still being formed.

• Jaguar

  A jaguar is quickness, sure footing, and strength gathered in one animal.

• Jail

  Being locked in jail means a job, a bond, or a situation feels airless and shut. It can also be guilt you are using to punish yourself.

  Places

• Jailbreak

  A jailbreak is the wish to leave a bond or situation that hems you in. It can also mean you refuse to live with the results of what you did, or that freeing someone else means bending your own standards.

• Jailer

  A jailer is a limit, whether it comes from your own rules or from another person. It can also be your wish to run other people's choices.

  Characters

• Jalapeño

  A jalapeño says some corner of life needs more heat. You may be flat and looking for a lift.

• Jam

  Jam is a small sweetness or an unexpected pleasure. It can also mean you are caught in a sticky bind you cannot easily step out of.

  Food

• Janitor

  A janitor means some corner of your life needs a thorough cleanup before you can move on.

  Characters

• January

  January points to love that has left and to companionship that came apart.

• Japan

  Japan follows whatever that country already means to you. If you have never been there, it leans toward a quiet mind and a dawning understanding.

  Travel

• Jar

  A jar is shelter you are seeking, and it can also mean you feel shaken by a person or an event. A talking honey-bear jar is someone you love, offering advice worth hearing.

• Jasmine

  Jasmine is affection, beauty, and a sense of being looked after. The pleasure it marks may not last long.

• Jasper

  Jasper belongs to long life and to healing. A stone placed in the mouth means a hidden truth is about to come out.

• Jaundice

  Jaundice, on you or on someone else, is trouble making a decision. It can also be the body asking for a real medical check.

• Javelin

  A javelin that strikes you is a threat to safety and to freedom of movement. It can also stand for male sexuality.

• Jaw

  An animal's jaw means a misunderstanding, or a demand that is chewing through your time and energy. Your own jaw is stubborn will; locked or broken, it is anger held in or a principle you have bent.

  Body Parts

• Jawbreaker

  A jawbreaker looks tempting and is hard to manage. The situation it marks will be the same.

• Jay Leno

  Jay Leno is a wish for humor, or for someone you can talk to without guarding every feeling. It can also flag that something important is happening tonight.

• Jaybird

  A jaybird means you are too sure of your own skill. It can also be a call to notice something you walked past.

  Birds

• Jazz

  Jazz is lively feeling and room to make something of your own. If you enjoy the music the outlook is good; if you dislike it, something is going against you.

• Jealousy

  Jealousy here often continues a waking feeling toward one particular person. It can also be fear of closeness, and a need to value yourself more steadily.

  Feelings

• Jeans

  Jeans that draw your notice ask for an easier approach to the situation. Tight or torn pairs mean you feel hemmed in, or too careless about a problem that deserves more care.

  Clothing

• Jedi

  Being a Jedi means you trust inner strength more than force. Seeing one marks a hard choice, and a fight inside you about whether to act cleanly or let bitterness decide.

• Jeep

  A jeep says your days need more movement and you should get out and do something. It can also hint that your sex life wants something less routine.

• Jekyll and Hyde

  Jekyll and Hyde is the split between the better and worse sides of you. You are pulled both ways and cannot yet tell which one will act.

• Jelly

  Jelly is understanding that has finally set around a question you kept turning over. It can also mean you are trying to keep a sweet bond from spoiling.

  Food

• Jellybean

  Jellybeans are easy joy and a light mood. You feel at ease for once.

  Food

• Jellyfish

  A jellyfish is an old hurt rising to the surface, sometimes with quiet hostility in a current bond. It can also be a moment when you cannot stand up for yourself.

• Jerk

  A sudden jerk as you drop off is usually a real muscle twitch, the falling startle that snaps you awake.

• Jester

  A jester means small amusements are pulling you off work that matters more. It can also be embarrassment in a particular scene.

  Characters

• Jesus

  Jesus in a dream is encouragement that a hard stretch can be gotten through and a deep wish can still be met. If he speaks with you, the dream is about peace of mind; calling his name is a plea for guidance.

  Characters

• Jet

  A jet overhead is speed, pride, or power. The black stone of the same name is a stretch of grief.

• Jet Fuel

  Jet fuel is high, restless energy. You want to stay in motion and dislike standing still.

• Jet Pack

  A jet pack lifts you into a stronger position where little can block you. It can also mean you will clear a difficulty that has been holding you down.

• Jet Ski

  A jet ski is a forceful trip through your own feelings. It can also point to a sexual adventure.

• Jetty

  Standing on a jetty means you are walking out into your feelings. Seeing one from shore means you are trying to quiet the water around you.

• Jewelry

  Jewelry is the worth you give yourself and the qualities you treat as precious. Broken pieces are hopes that failed, and wearing too much means you are straining to impress.

• Jewelry Box

  A jewelry box holds worth and unused ability you have kept shut away. It is time to open it.

• Jewels

  Jewels are a quality you prize in yourself or in someone else, along with pleasure and a sense of being protected. Finding them points to a fast rise.

• Jig

  Dancing a jig is light fun and a loose mood. It can also be a nudge to stop being so stiff and enjoy yourself.

• Jigsaw Puzzle

  A jigsaw is a waking problem you are trying to fit into one picture. Missing pieces mean you still lack the facts for a sound decision.

• Jitterbug

  The jitterbug is a bright, lively mood, or a hint that you should unclench. It can also mean you are nervous about something specific.

• Job

  Looking for work means the current chapter feels empty and without a clear aim. Dreaming of the job you already hold says a task needs doing, or that work has crowded out rest.

• Jockey

  A jockey means you sit in a high place and trust the skill you have.

  Characters

• Jockstrap

  A jockstrap means you feel exposed in a sexual situation. It can also mean your guard is up so you will not be hurt in a relationship.

  Clothing

• Jogging

  Jogging is a steady pace through life without any real move toward change.

• Joint

  Joints are flexibility and the need to bend with other people. Trouble in them means your plans are not coming together.

• Joke

  Telling a joke means people are brushing you off, or that you yourself are treating something too lightly. Hearing one can be pressure finally letting off.

• Joker

  The joker card is open possibility: many paths stay available if you commit to one. The Batman figure means another person's misfortune is entertaining you.

• Joshua Tree

  A Joshua tree is a steady spirit, a clean purpose, and courage that grew in a hard place.

• Journal

  A journal is an attempt to rewrite what happened so it suits you better. If someone else reads it, you are keeping a feeling you find hard to say aloud.

• Journey

  A journey is progress and a closer look at yourself; the road and the way you travel show your present circumstances. Friends setting out mark a welcome change.

• Jousting

  Jousting is the will to drive forward against resistance. Watching from the stands means you should meet a problem directly instead of circling it.

• Joy

  Joy here is harmony with friends and people you love, echoing a mood you already carry while awake.

  Feelings

• Jubilee

  A jubilee is pleasure in what you are doing. It can mark a beginning, or a marriage.

• Judge

  A judge is guilt and the fear of being found out, or worry that others are weighing your actions. Being the judge yourself means a hard decision is yours and you are trying to be fair.

• Judgment

  Being judged means you are in the middle of a test and want acceptance before you can go on.

• Jug

  A jug can stand for innocence, or, when it holds milk, for a mothering strength. Empty or cracked, something important is missing or a bond has been betrayed.

• Juggling

  Juggling means too many tasks at once, especially if the objects fall. It can also show that you really can keep several parts of life in play.

• Juice

  Juice you drink is vitality, the plain sense of being alive and supplied.

• Juicer

  A juicer means your energy is low and you are trying to draw more of it out of what you already have.

• Jukebox

  A jukebox means you are holding effort back. The song it plays is a clue to your mood and to what you actually believe.

• Julius Caesar

  Julius Caesar is your own drive to lead. If pride swells with it, the dream asks for a smaller ego.

• July

  July is hope, learning, or work that is actually getting done.

• Jumbotron

  A jumbotron enlarges a detail you have missed. It can also mean you want to be inside the excitement rather than watching from the seats.

• Jump Rope

  Jumping rope is the skill of timing your moves so a plan actually happens.

• Jumper Cables

  See also Booster Cables.

• Jumping

  Jumping means take the chance; the obstacle in front of you can be cleared. Fear of the jump is a dislike of change, and the feeling in the dream tells you whether this is eagerness or impatience.

• Jumping Jacks

  Jumping jacks ask for more balance, and for a more orderly way of chasing what you want.

• Jumpsuit

  A jumpsuit means your sense of who you are feels stuck in one piece. A racing suit says life is moving too fast to think; a prison suit means a bond or a situation has you trapped.

• June

  June is gains, and forward movement in the work you have undertaken.

• Jungle

  A jungle is the unruly part of you, and a waking life that feels chaotic and hard to predict. Being lost in it means bitter feelings are blocking the way forward.

  Places

• Juniper

  A juniper says you have to live through the hard stretch before the good one can be enjoyed.

• Junk

  Junk is old thinking and old habits that are ready to be thrown out.

  See also Garbage.

• Junk Mail

  Junk mail means you are stuck on small details. Let the trivial things stop weighing on you.

• Junkyard

  A junkyard holds fear and anger you pushed down, along with beliefs and habits you have already discarded.

• Jupiter

  Jupiter is creative energy, optimism, and a generous appetite for pleasure. It can also ask you to widen what you know and test where your limits actually are.

• Jury

  A jury means other people are examining you, or that you care too much about their opinion. Sitting on one means you are quick to judge them in return.

• Jury Duty

  Jury duty means your views matter, and other people can use what you know.

• Justice

  Justice is the sense that you were treated unfairly and the balance has not been set right.