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.
K
K
The letter K reads as a quiet okay, a sense that things are acceptable. It may also name someone called Kay, or anyone whose name begins with K.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah is a wish to feel connected to God and to understand the world you actually live in. You want a clearer view of your surroundings.
Kaleidoscope
A kaleidoscope is the many pieces that make up your character, shifting until they form one picture. It can also mean the path ahead is hard to choose.
Kali
Kali is the mother who protects. For someone who already honors her, the figure may carry a deeper religious weight.
Kangaroo
A kangaroo is care that shelters, sometimes past the point of being useful. Hopping from place to place means you will not stay with one aim; an attack means your good name is being questioned.
Karaoke
Karaoke means you trust your talent more than the result deserves. It can also mean a real gift is sitting unused.
Karate
Practicing karate means your energy needs a target. Aim it at a goal instead of letting it spill.
Karma
Karma is what you give in a relationship and what comes back. Notice whether the dream feels fair or sour.
Katydids
Katydids are a slack attitude that will make you miss what is offered. Hearing them means you lean too hard on other people.
Kayak
A kayak means your feelings are in balance and you can steer them. It can also mean progress that comes from your own effort, so keep your strength up.
Keel
A keel is emotional balance and the strength that keeps you upright in rough water.
Keepsake
A keepsake is your willingness to love and to be loved. It can also remind you how far you have already come.
Keg
A keg is the strain of pushing through hardship. Full, it says stay on this course; empty, it says change direction, or stop spending energy you do not have.
Kelp
Kelp is emotional trouble you can get tangled in. You may be caught for a while, and you can still work free.
Kennel
A kennel means you have been left out of a situation or a relationship that matters to you.
Kerosene
Kerosene is a sudden store of vigor and power. A new idea is also catching and ready to burn.
Ketchup
Ketchup is plain pleasure, youth, and an easy happiness. It can also mean there is something you still need to catch up on.
Kettle
A kettle is the ordinary part of life you have started to overlook. Boiling or whistling, a hot feeling has reached its limit and needs attention now.
Key
A key is access: to a chance, a secret, a duty, or a feeling you have locked away. Losing it is fear of losing your place; finding one is a solution; a rusty key is a skill you have neglected.
Key Chain
A key chain is your knack for fitting into almost any room and getting along with whoever is there.
Key Maker
A key maker means you need help opening something you cannot unlock alone. Cutting a spare means more than one way exists to solve the same problem.
Keyboard
A computer keyboard is a message or an idea that needs to get out, or a task still waiting. A musical keyboard is a life that is sounding in tune.
Keyhole
Looking through a keyhole means your view of a situation is too narrow, or that you are prying where you do not belong. Someone at your keyhole means your privacy is being crossed, or that you have shut people out.
Khakis
Khakis mean something in front of you is not as clear as it looks. They can also be the wish to blend in and match everyone else.
Kick
Kicking someone is anger you have not been able to say while awake. Being kicked is the feeling of being used, or a shove from your own mind to get moving; kicking an object means you want that thing out of your life.
Kick Scooter
A kick scooter is the work of keeping several parts of life in balance, and of choosing a direction and sticking to it. Someone else riding one has a carefree air.
Kickball
Kickball is a stretch of time with few worries and little duty. It can also be your wish to be the one in control.
Kid
A kid, the young goat, is a small lapse in judgment. It can also mean pleasure is eating the hours that work or study needed.
See also Children.
Kidnap
Being kidnapped means you feel trapped, and something is pulling your attention off your aims. Kidnapping someone else means you are clutching what you should release, or pressing your views onto other people.
Kidneys
Kidneys point to a need for cleansing, inside the body or in the life around it.
Killer
A killer means an important feeling has been cut off and your sense of self is thinning. It can also be the sharp end of a healing, when you finally stop something that has gone on too long.
Killer Whale
A killer whale says you need to speak up and be more present with other people. It can also be guidance as you try to join what you know with what you feel.
Killing
Killing someone in a dream is temper about to slip, or the wish to end a trait in yourself that the other person stands for. Being killed is a habit or a feeling you are trying to finish, or the shock of being let down.
See also Murder.
Kilt
A kilt is kinship, shared belonging, and a masculine pride you want recognized. Color and pattern add the rest.
Kimchi
Kimchi is a wall you put up so a relationship cannot hurt you. You would rather stay guarded than be wounded.
Kimono
A kimono points toward Japan and whatever tie you feel to that place. It also carries elegance, beauty, and a yielding manner.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a passage from one stage of life into another. Old worry about being left can still sit in that room.
King
A king means standing, power, and a rise above the trouble in front of you. He can be a father figure you want support from; being the king yourself means authority that may be turning harsh.
King Kong
King Kong is a huge obstacle sitting in your way. If he chases you, the difficulty has to be faced before life can move; he can also be raw appetite and unrefined sexual energy.
Kingfisher
A kingfisher is calm and a quiet dignity.
Kiosk
A kiosk is openness toward a relationship. It can also mean you are hunting for advice and a direction.
Kiss
A kiss is affection, ease, and a wish for more warmth in a bond. Kissing someone of your own sex, or kissing yourself, is acceptance of the side of you that you have kept quiet; a kiss forced on you is someone pushing their will onto yours.
Kitchen
A kitchen is warmth, feeding, and the part of you that looks after people you love. If the heat is more than you can bear, the dream says leave the plan.
Kite
Flying a kite means your aims are high and your feet are still on the ground. It can also mean a gift or a choice comes with strings, and someone else is steering.
Kitten
A kitten is a move toward independence, and a stretch of innocence. Hurting one means you cannot say what you feel in a close bond; saving one is the wish to help someone headed the wrong way.
Kiwi
Kiwi fruit is a small store of strength you need before you can go on. The bird of the same name is a situation you are trying to hide from.
Kleenex
A tissue means it is time to set the past down and deal with the problem in front of you.
Knapsack
A knapsack holds hopes, secrets, and what you have learned. It can also be the weight of duties and old feeling you are still carrying.
Knee
Knees are the support under you, and how much of it you feel you have. Weakness, pride, and a load past your limit all meet there.
Kneel
Kneeling is humility. It can also mean you are open to other people's influence, even to the point of giving up a piece of yourself.
Knife
A knife is anger and the need to cut a tie or a habit out of your life. A dull blade means hard work with little return; a wound from one is aggression pressing in on you.
See also Blade.
Knife Grinder
A knife grinder marks a loss of freedom.
Knight
A knight is honor, loyalty, and someone who protects you. Being knighted means your character has been recognized and trust has been placed in your hands.
Knitting
Knitting is a quiet, affectionate home, or the creative work you have been putting off. Trouble with the stitches means you are dodging an issue; the needles can mean you are steering a situation toward the result you want.
Knob
A knob is the chance to turn a situation around. You need a grip on what is happening.
Knocker
A door knocker is a chance arriving, and a wish for help or guidance. It can also be dread, a fear that bad news is at the door, or a sexual joke about a woman's chest.
Knocking
Knocking is your own mind trying to get your attention, often because a chance is waiting. It can also mean you are insulting someone, or that a habit needs to stop.
Knots
Knots are small worries and the limits you have tied around your own feelings. Tying one can be stubborn self-reliance, or a commitment, the way people speak of tying the knot.
Knuckles
Knuckles stand for hard work and steady effort.
Koala
A koala joins body, feeling, and spirit, and it offers safety and care. It can also be the wish to curl up and drop your duties for a while.
Koi Fish
A koi asks you to set pride aside so it does not spoil a friendship. It is also patience and the grit to outlast trouble; a pond of them is affection and companionship.
Komodo Dragon
A Komodo dragon says your thinking needs to bend, and that quick, quiet moves will bring the result you are after. It can also be fear that is genuine.
Kookaburra
A kookaburra means you are treating something too lightly.
Koran
The Koran in a dream is a message from a deeper part of you, or from what you hold as higher.
Kraken
The Kraken is anger you pushed down, now rising hard enough to swamp you. You are overwhelmed.
Krishna
Krishna is love that feels sacred, and knowledge that belongs to the spirit.
Kumquats
Kumquats are luck and a turn toward prosperity.