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.
S
S
The letter S means something in your life is waiting for your attention.
S.W.A.T. Team
That tactical team marks a tense bond or feeling that has to be handled with care. It can also be your mind blocking a painful memory so you will not have to face it.
Sabotage
Being sabotaged means you are overlooking something important. Doing the damage yourself is anxiety pressing on the line between your private mind and the self you show.
Sack
A sack is safety and the womb, or the weight of duties you are carrying.
Sackcloth
Sackcloth is humility, and a need to make amends for something you did.
Sacred
What feels sacred is what you value and have spent yourself on. The effort is starting to return something.
Sacrifice
Being sacrificed is the habit of punishing yourself. It can also be the sense that nobody notices what you gave up.
Sad
Sadness here asks you to learn from the letdown and allow yourself some gladness again.
Saddle
A saddle says chase your aims without waiting for permission. It can also mean you need a firmer hand on a person or a situation.
Sadism
Sadism is old anger that never found a voice. The cruelty may be turned inward, at a fault you have not forgiven.
Safari
A safari is the wish to step outside ordinary rules and the tight feeling of ordinary life.
Safe
A safe is worth and secrets you keep locked away from other people.
Safe Haven
A safe haven is a hopeful view of life, or an attempt to step out of what is actually happening.
Safety Pin
A safety pin means a situation is about to come apart, and the fear that goes with that.
Saffron
Saffron is humility, and, by its color, love and heat.
Sage
Sage is wisdom joined to thrift and plain good sense.
Sagittarius
Someone who is a Sagittarius stands for high aims, and for a blunt, adventurous, hopeful way of thinking.
Sailboat
A sailboat is your emotional style and the way you move through changing situations.
Sailing
Sailing shows how life is going and whether you can handle the problems that come with it.
Sailor
A sailor is the wish for adventure and open space. It can also mean an emotional issue is being met head-on.
Saint
A saint is a message arriving from a spiritual quarter, or a picture of genuine goodness.
Saint Bernard
A Saint Bernard means some part of you needs to be rescued.
Salad
A salad asks you to say what you feel and to take in what helps you grow. It can also be a longing for health and the outdoors.
Salad Dressing
Salad dressing means life needs more flavor.
Salamander
A salamander is the ability to come through shame or embarrassment, or to refuse a temptation.
Salami
Salami points to trouble with how you see yourself, and sometimes to strain in sex or in a bond.
Salary
A salary is what hard work has produced, and a measure of how confident you feel.
Sale
A sale is a chance sitting within easy reach. It can also mean you are pricing yourself too low.
Salesperson
A salesperson means there is something you still need to bring into your life, or that you are willing to try another point of view.
Saliva
Saliva is sexual and sensual appetite. Spitting it out is worry that control, of body or feeling, is slipping.
Salmon
A salmon is determination, strength, and wisdom, and a comfort with letting feeling show.
Salon
A salon is worry about how you look, and a cover placed over some situation.
Saloon
A saloon is an escape from stress, or a conflict you want settled right away.
Salsa
Salsa asks for more spice and variety. It can also pun on a saucy manner.
Salt
Salt is a new spark in ordinary days, or dependability, truth, and steady devotion.
Saltpeter
Saltpeter points to grief that stays for a long stretch of time.
Saltwater
Saltwater is tears and heartache, or a feeling that suddenly spills over.
Salute
A salute is yielding to authority and accepting where you stand.
Salve
Salve applied to you means the struggle will ease. Putting it on someone else shows you can be counted on when people need you.
Sample
A sample is the wish to try what is on offer, or a reluctance to commit.
Samurai
A samurai is loyalty, honor, duty, and discipline. A commitment somewhere still needs work.
Sanctuary
A sanctuary is the need to step away from what each day demands.
Sand
Sand is a change of attitude, or time slipping past while you stand still.
Sand Castle
A sand castle is a grand plan built without a base that can hold it.
Sand Dollar
A sand dollar says your feelings count. Do not let anyone cheapen them.
Sand Dunes
Sand dunes are the wish to be sheltered from a reality that feels bitter.
Sandals
Sandals are comfort and ease. They can also mean step carefully around certain people or you will offend them.
Sandbag
A sandbag is a person or a load slowing your progress. It can also be feelings turned aside instead of faced.
Sandbox
A sandbox means you are treating something too solemnly, or behaving in a childish way.
Sandpaper
Sandpaper is a rough patch in a bond that needs smoothing. It can also mean your words have been too harsh.
Sandstorm
A sandstorm is the feeling of being trapped, closed in, and unable to tell which way is forward.
Sandwich
A sandwich is heavy pressure stacked on you, and also the knack of doing two things at once.
Sandwich Bag
A sandwich bag is a store of energy you are holding until you choose to use it.
Sanitary Napkin
See also Maxi Pad.
Santa Claus
Santa Claus asks you to give more, accept more, and forgive more. He can also be a review of the good and the bad you have done.
Sanyasi
A sanyasi is the wish for a simpler life, free of the chase after possessions.
Sap
Sap is health, vigor, and energy. It can also be someone far too easy to fool.
Sapphire
A sapphire is protection and a sense of the divine. It can also mean you are getting closer to the truth of something.
Sarcasm
Sarcasm is an attempt to pull notice away from your own flaws.
Sardines
Sardines are the many pieces that make up how you feel. They can also mean you are packed in too tightly with other people.
Sari
A sari is quiet sensuality, simplicity, and the ability to adapt. It may pun on being sorry.
Sash
A sash is a front you are holding up, or a limit you have tied around yourself.
Sasquatch
See also Bigfoot.
Satan
Satan marks wrongdoing or harm at work in your surroundings.
See also Devil.
Satellite
A satellite is how widely people now depend on one another in order to communicate.
Satellite Dish
A satellite dish is awareness of the wider world and of issues beyond your own street.
Satin
Satin is a change that goes smoothly.
Saturday
Saturday is opportunity, and a sign that what you are deciding will work in your favor.
Saturn
Saturn is discipline, limits, and constraint. It can also be the turn of life through ending and beginning again.
Satyr
A satyr is a search for sexual freedom, or a need to join mind and body instead of keeping them apart.
Sauce
Sauce is a sense of wisdom. It can also pun on a saucy attitude.
Saucer
A saucer is the support under your feelings and your spirit.
Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut points to good health.
Sauna
A sauna asks you to be more open to other people's ideas. It can also be erotic wanting.
Sausage
Sausage stands for material values, and for male sexual tension.
Savage
See also Barbarian.
Savanna
A savanna says you need to adjust as situations around you keep changing.
Savings
Savings are a mind stuck on money and the weight of financial strain.
Savings Bonds
Savings bonds are a duty and a commitment to another person or to a situation.
Saw
A saw says stop doing something. It can also pun on a thing you noticed.
Sawdust
Sawdust means an emotional wound that just opened still needs clearing.
Saxophone
A saxophone is something deep that needs to be said.
Scab
A scab is a period of healing. It can also pun on someone who breaks a strike.
Scaffolding
Scaffolding is a condition that will not last, and the support you use while you climb.
Scald
Being scalded is emotional distance. Something sharp may have to happen before you will respond.
Scale
A scale is a decision waiting to be made, or a call to judge the matter with a cooler head.
Scales of Justice
The scales of justice are balance and sound judgment. They may also point to a Libra.
Scallop
A scallop shell stands for female sexuality.
Scalp
The scalp means something needs to leave your head. Being scalped is vitality drained away by a person or a situation.
Scandal
A scandal means you care too much about what people say. It can also mean your attention belongs on something more important.
Scanner
A scanner is the habit of copying other people's ideas. It can also be information being passed along.
Scantron
A scantron is the choices you are making. It can also be worry about a test.
Scapegoat
Being a scapegoat is the feeling that you were set up to take someone else's blame.
Scar
A scar is an old hurt that never fully closed, or an insecurity that keeps blocking your aims.
Scarab
A scarab is the ability to survive and change, along with unease about aging and death.
Scarecrow
A scarecrow is low mood in the middle of a crisis.
Scared
Being scared is self-doubt and the sense that you are not in control. The fear may actually be anger.
Scarf
A scarf is a limit you placed on yourself, or the sense that nobody can hear what you are trying to say.
Scavenger Hunt
A scavenger hunt means something is missing, and you are looking for what would fill the want.
Scent
See also Smell.
Scepter
A scepter is the power one person can hold, and the difference that one person can make.
Schedule
A schedule says your days need clearer planning.
Schematics
A schematic means set your plans out so you can move. It can also be a check for problems that would trip you later.
Schizophrenia
Dreaming that you have schizophrenia when you do not is a refusal to own what you do, or to accept the strength you already have.
Schnauzer
A schnauzer highlights sharp alertness and loyalty.
School
School brings old feelings of not being enough, often left over from childhood. It can also be the lessons waking life is teaching now.
See also Teacher.
School Bag
See also Knapsack.
School Bus
A school bus is an important journey you are about to take for your own growth.
Schoolmates
See also Classmates.
Scientist
A scientist is experiment, invention, and an odd way of working. It can also mean a problem needs a cooler, more rational look.
Scissors
Scissors are decisive control, and the power to cut a person or a habit out of your life.
Scold
Being scolded means you are stopped from saying what you mean. Scolding someone else is resentment you still need to face.
Scooter
A scooter is enjoyment of a powerful position. A kick scooter is the work of keeping several parts of life in balance.
Scorch
See also Hot.
Score
A score shows success or failure according to which side won.
Scoreboard
A scoreboard is how you are doing, and how you stack up against other people. The digits on it matter.
Scorpio
A Scorpio stands for self-control, grit, healing, and change. It can also point to a sexual matter.
Scorpion
A scorpion is a situation that can sting, or bitter words aimed at you or coming from you.
Scotch
See also Whisky.
Scrabble
Scrabble means thoughts and feelings still need to be fitted together. The letters and the words you spell are clues.
Scrapbook
A scrapbook holds old feeling and a past you have set aside or forgotten.
Scratch
Scratching is a small irritation, or someone pressing a sore spot. It can also pun on starting over from nothing.
Scream
A scream is anger and fear that need to be named, and soon.
Screen
A window screen is cautious hope about good news. A blank movie screen is distance you are keeping from an issue or a feeling.
Screening
A screening is the sense that life is passing while you only watch. The story on the screen may match something waking.
Screw
A screw is the feeling of being used, or of messing a thing up. It can also be a blunt stand-in for sex.
Screwdriver
A screwdriver is the need to hold a situation or a bond together. It may also point to someone whose life is in pieces, or to pressure you want to apply.
Script
A script is the character you play while you are awake.
Scroll
A scroll is knowledge you have not shown, or potential you have not used.
Scrubs
Scrubs mark a caring, supportive nature. They can also mean it is time to clean up how you are living.
Scuba Diving
Scuba diving is a wish to go down into what you do not usually see, or to the root of a problem you are in right now.
Sculptor
A sculptor is creativity, or the work of finding out who you are.
Sculpture
A sculpture is a refusal to accept things as they are, and fear that the face you show is not a good one.
Scythe
A scythe says cut the excess out of your life, including a habit that has grown too large.
Sea
The sea is the inner mind and the crossing into what you consciously know. Like other water, it is also feeling.
Sea Creature
A sea creature is a change in feeling. If it is captive, you are holding emotion in so tightly that it starts to harm you.
Sea Horse
A sea horse is the strength of the inner mind, and a new way of looking at life.
Sea Lion
See also Seal.
Sea Turtle
A sea turtle means you are cautious about showing what you feel, and a little sheltered from it.
Sea Urchin
A sea urchin is a flaw in the way you are thinking.
Seafood
Seafood is recognition, and a joining of spirit with ordinary awareness. It can also pun on seeing food.
See also Food.
Seagulls
Seagulls are the wish to get away from demands. They can also stand for strengths you already have.
Seal
A seal is playfulness and a cheerful temper, along with luck and a secure kind of love.
Seam
A seam is two parts of life that need to be joined. It can also pun on something that is not what it seems.
Seamstress
A seamstress is the ability to make things and to mend them.
Séance
A séance is intuition and awareness, and one way of facing questions about death.
Search
Searching means something is missing: love, peace, or an answer you have not found yet.
Searchlight
See also Flashlight.
Seashells
Seashells are protection, and a refusal to show what you really feel.
Seasick
Seasickness is emotion that drags and weighs on you. Those feelings need to be set down.
Seasons
The seasons are time passing, and the phases a life moves through.
Seat
See also Chair.
Seatbelt
A seatbelt says get a hold of your emotions and do not come apart when things shake.
Seaweed
Seaweed says trust your own instincts.
Secret
A secret is hidden power, or the pressure of something you are desperate to tell.
Secret Admirer
A secret admirer is an unknown side of you that needs to be brought in. It can also be a real person who is interested.
Secret Santa
Secret Santa is giving without asking for anything back.
Secretary
A secretary means your life needs more order.
Sect
See also Cult.
Security
A feeling of security may mean the opposite while you are awake: you do not feel safe.
Security Bars
Security bars are chances you can see and still cannot reach. They can also be mistrust.
Security Camera
A security camera means you feel watched and judged for how you behave.
Security Guard
A security guard is a search for safety in a bond or a situation. It can also be something valuable you want to keep safe.
Sedate
Being sedated is avoidance of a duty or a pain you do not want to feel. It can also mean you simply need to rest.
Seduction
Seduction is sexual wanting. It can also mean you are being drawn into something you do not actually want.
Seed
Seeds are fertility, inheritance, and life continuing. They can also stand for the inner life.
Seepage
Seepage is feeling you pushed down, now leaking up from the past.
Seesaw
A seesaw is the rise and fall of feeling and of life. It also marks indecision and little initiative.
Segway
A Segway says you need more balance and control in how you live.
Seizures
A seizure is life feeling out of your hands.
Self Defense
Self-defense training means you are on guard about some issue, and you feel picked on or criticized.
Self Storage
A self-storage unit is a problem parked out of sight rather than dealt with.
Self-Harm
Harm done to yourself is a bid to be noticed, or an attempt to step back from pain in one part of life that feels unbearable.
Selfie
A selfie means the focus has stayed on you and left other people out. An undressed one can be a sudden surge of confidence.
Selling
Selling marks a change underway, and difficulty letting something go.
Semen
See also Sperm.
Semi Truck
A semi truck is the feeling of being overloaded or used. It can also be sheer size and power.
Seminar
A seminar is knowledge widening. There is something you still need to learn and take in.
Senile
Senility, if it is not your real condition, means talent is being left idle. The work needs more of you.
Senior Home
Living in a senior home when you do not means you have grown too dependent. Visiting one is a call to reconnect with an older person.
Senses
Heightened senses are a new awareness and a sharper spiritual attention.
Sensuality
Sensuality asks you to notice what your body needs.
Sentencing
Being sentenced means own what you did and face the problem. It can also mean the feeling still needs to be said out loud.
Separation
A separation is fear of being left, or of no longer being needed.
Sepia
Sepia tones come from an older, less formed layer of the mind.
September
September can be a lucky, hopeful stretch, or a period of heavy stress.
Sequins
Sequins are the wish to be noticed. They can also mean appearances are misleading.
Sequoias
See also Redwood.
Serenade
Being serenaded is emotional and spiritual fulfillment. It can also ask you to say your love more plainly.
Serial Killer
A serial killer is fear and a shaky sense of safety. If the figure is a known one, the trait they are remembered for is the part that fits your life.
Serious
Seriousness is a wall that keeps someone from getting through. It can also mean you need to ease up.
Sermon
Listening to a sermon is a search for spiritual advice. Giving one means you are pressing your beliefs onto other people.
Serpent
A serpent is good and harm held in balance. Wings on it point to wisdom.
Servant
Being a servant means you yield too easily and give up too much ground.
Service
Servicing a vehicle says slow down and refill yourself. Offering a service is willingness to help.
Sesame
Sesame is hidden riches. Making a paste from it is something you are still working through while awake.
Settle
Settling means you need to set a burden down. It can also be a lack of drive.
Sewage
Sewage is feeling you reject or find shameful, and a low opinion of yourself.
Sewer
A sewer is a foul situation and an old bond. Something needs cleaning or an immediate change.
Sewing
Sewing is an attempt to make amends. A relationship or a situation may need mending.
Sewing Machine
A sewing machine means thrift will carry you through a hard time. Winning one is growing trust in your ability to make something useful.
Sex
Sex here is the joining of contrasting parts of yourself into one picture.
Sex Tape
Making a sex tape is openness to new sexual experience. If it leaks, you feel too exposed and the pace of the bond is too fast.
Sex Toy
A sex toy is dissatisfaction in some area of life, sexual or otherwise. It can also mean sex itself is being treated as a joke.
Sextant
A sextant is adventure, exploration, and a journey that widens what you know.
Sextuplets
Sextuplets are balance and calm in family life, and a double measure of energy.
Sexuality
Your sexuality here touches the large turns of a life: birth, partnership, and endings. It can also be worry that your appeal is slipping.
Shack
A shack is a self that is still unfinished. It can also pun on living together.
Shackles
Shackles are a rut, and days that have become nothing but routine.
Shade
Shade is protection, and a fact you would rather leave in the dark.
Shadow Boxing
Shadow boxing is a fight inside you, often over a moral question.
Shadows
Your shadow is a trait you have not admitted, or one you would rather leave unseen.
Shakespeare
Reading Shakespeare points to a literary gift and a well-stocked mind.
Shaking
Shaking off is the dropping of old habits and old thinking. It can also be fear.
Shallow
Something shallow is knowledge you are dealing with on the surface. Noticing the shallowness can also describe your own manner.
Shaman
A shaman is a spiritual guide. The figure can also ask you to turn a sour energy into something useful.
Shame
Shame carries waking guilt, insecurity, or the sense that you failed yourself or someone else.
Shampoo
Shampoo means clear out old attitudes. A situation or a bond may need a different approach.
Shamrock
A shamrock is the need to feel protected.
Shape Shifting
See also Metamorphosis, Morph or Zoomorphism.
Shapes
Shapes suggest that matters in your life are starting to take form. Try looking at the problem from another angle.
Shave
Shaving is a small decision that still changes the day. It can also be a harsh attitude, or punishment turned on yourself.
Shaving Cream
Shaving cream is trouble with how you see yourself. It can also be a lighter mood.
Shawl
A shawl is comfort and the feeling of being well protected.
Shears
See also Scissors.
Sheath
A sheath means stay alert. Something needs watching.
Shed
A shed means skills you are not using. It can also pun on a trait or a habit you need to drop.
Sheep
Sheep are quiet conformity. They can also stand for compassion.
Sheet Music
Sheet music is sensual harmony in a relationship, or the lack of it.
Sheets
See also Bedspread.
Shelf
A shelf means set an idea or a plan aside for now.
Shell
A shell is the wish to be sheltered from problems, and a closing-off of feeling.
Shelter
A shelter is difficulty and helplessness. It can also be fear of people who are unlike you.
Shepherd
A shepherd is the nurturing side of you: guidance, direction, and bringing people together.
Shhh
Shushing someone means a truth is unwelcome. It can also be a shared understanding that needs no words.
Shield
A shield is protection for feeling, spirit, and body. You may feel exposed and in need of comfort.
Shiny
Something shiny is potential you have not released yet. What glitters carries the specific point.
Ship
A ship is an exploration of feeling and of what lies under awareness.
Shipwreck
A shipwreck is emotional conflict, or trouble saying what you feel.
Shirt
A shirt is an emotional situation. A sleeveless one says meet the problem with more force.
Shit
See also Feces or Defecate.
Shiva
Shiva is struggle and a conflict between two choices you cannot yet make.
Shiver
Shivering is a deep fear rising from underneath, or a manner that has gone cold and rigid.
Shock
A shock is a sudden waking-up and a new awareness.
Shoebox
A shoebox means you are heading in a new direction.
Shoehorn
A shoehorn is forcing yourself, or something else, into a place where it is not welcome.
Shoelace
Untied shoelaces mean you are unready for the task, the bond, or the next step.
Shoemaker
A shoemaker means a situation you thought was finished has become active again. It can also mean your approach to life needs another look.
Shoes
Shoes are the way you approach life. Wearing them means you are grounded and practical.
Shooting
A shooting means you have a clear aim and know what you are going after.
Shooting Range
A shooting range is an outlet for anger, or a picture of determination.
Shooting Star
A shooting star is fulfillment and advancement, or a new beginning and a large change.
Shoplift
Shoplifting is the feeling that your needs are denied, and that chances open to others are closed to you.
Shopping
Shopping is want and desire, and the options life keeps putting in front of you.
Shopping Bag
A shopping bag is the reward for effort you have already spent.
Shopping Cart
A shopping cart is benefit you are collecting from hard work. Pushing one can mean you still need to look at more options.
Shore
The shore means emotional needs are met and inner turmoil has settled. It can also mean you have used up the obvious options and need a wider view.
Short
Someone shorter than you means you are looking down on that person and feeling above them.
Shortcut
A shortcut is carelessness. It can also mean you are getting the lesser share.
Shorts
Shorts mean you are ready to show a little more of your inner self. They can also be youth and play.
Shot
Being shot is punishment you are laying on yourself for something you are ashamed of.
See also Injection or Syringe.
Shot Put
A shot put is the struggle to throw off a weight that will not leave.
Shotgun
A shotgun says aim your energy more tightly at the goal.
See also Gun.
Shoulders
Shoulders are strength, duty, and the loads you carry. They are also your ability to support other people.
Shout
See also Yelling.
Shovel
A shovel is a search for insight. It can also mean you are trying too hard to dig up the truth.
Shower
A shower in clear water is renewal and forgiveness, of spirit or of body. It can also pun on showering someone with gifts or affection.
Shower Cap
A shower cap is a shield against an emotional situation.
Shower Curtain
A shower curtain means feeling is not fully let out. It can also be an attempt to spare other people your setbacks and outbursts.
Shrapnel
Shrapnel striking someone is the cost of your temper. The anger hits people nearby even when it was not aimed at them.
Shredder
A shredder marks material you want destroyed or kept private. What goes into it names the issue.
Shrimp
Shrimp is the feeling of being overpowered and small, and the wish to hide for a while.
Shrine
A shrine means too much of your energy is poured into one part of life.
Shrink
Shrinking is low confidence and the sense that you do not matter in the situation.
Shroud
A shroud is an ending, or a feeling you are covering because you are not ready to face it.
Shuffleboard
Shuffleboard is idling in some part of life. Playing it can be the wish to knock others aside so your own goal can move.
Shun
Shunning someone means a part of yourself is also being refused. It can also mean you agree so often that your own self disappears.
Shuriken
A shuriken is anger you are carrying, close to breaking out all at once.
Shutters
Shutters mean you are closing yourself off from some part of the day, or closing someone out.
Shy
Shyness says you need more confidence in what you can do, and a firmer way of speaking.
Siamese Twins
Siamese twins are a major conflict. The choice you make will land on someone else as well.
Sibling
A sibling brings unfinished business with them, or an old childhood issue that still needs facing. Someone else's sibling stands for a trait you need to own in yourself.
Sibling Rivalry
Sibling rivalry is insecurity and the feeling that love is scarce.
Sibyl
A sibyl is insight, intuition, and a feminine instinct that sees past the surface.
Sick
Sickness, yours or someone else's, is discord and trouble. It can mark a part of you that needs mending, in body or in mind.
See also Illness.
Sickle
A sickle is labor and hard work. It can also pun on someone you think of as sick.
Sideburns
Sideburns mean you are giving a problem serious thought.
Sidecar
A sidecar is the wish to steer your own life, blocked by someone or something that will not let go.
Sides
Seeing only the side of a thing means you are not meeting the problem straight on.
Sidesaddle
Riding sidesaddle means the power in a situation is uneven.
Sidewalk
A sidewalk is steady progress and a direction through life. You may be trying a new way of living.
Sideways
Moving sideways means you are not meeting the issue head-on.
Sieve
A sieve is the ability to weigh options and choose wisely.
Sifter
A sifter says drop what is holding you back. It can also be a taste for finer things.
Sigh
A sigh is the weight of waking problems, or relief finally let out.
Sign
A sign means you need help. What the place means to you fills in the rest.
Sign Language
Sign language means find another way to be heard, because the usual one is not landing.
Sign Twirler
A sign twirler is a message from your own mind that you need to follow. Being one means a feeling is looking for a way out.
Signature
Your signature is agreement with a condition, and your mark of approval.
Silence
Silence is the inability to say what you mean, or a waking event that left you speechless.
Silhouette
A silhouette is a part of life that is still undefined, or a side of your character you have not developed.
Silk
Silk is luxury, smoothness, and softness. Wearing it suggests standing and prestige.
Silly String
Silly string is an attempt to pull attention off a problem.
Silo
A silo says save your money. You may be spending it on things that do not matter.
Silver
Silver belongs to moonlight, instinct, and a feminine quality in you. It is quiet confidence.
Silverfish
Silverfish are a problem left untouched. A swarm means it can no longer be ignored.
Silverware
New silverware is harmony at home, or a willingness to lend a hand.
Simon Says
Simon Says means listen to the directions with care. Losing the game means you follow orders without thinking.
Sin
Sin is guilt you are holding, over something you are not proud of.
Sindoor
Sindoor marks a life in transition. It can also be excitement about a coming marriage.
Singer
A famous singer is a higher influence. Your impression of that person points to someone or something in waking life.
Singing
Singing is happiness and harmony in a situation or a bond. Your mood lifts the people around you.
Single
Dreaming you are single when you are not means handle the matter yourself rather than borrowing someone else's strength.
Sink
A sink is feeling and how well you steer it. The old phrase about everything but the kitchen sink means you already have nearly all you need.
Sinkhole
A sinkhole is uncertainty about where you stand in a relationship, or a base that will not hold.
Sinking
Sinking is the feeling of being overwhelmed, with someone or something pulling you under.
See also Drowning.
Sippy Cup
A sippy cup says take a new relationship more slowly.
Siren
A Greek siren is a temptation, and a lure toward something that will harm you.
Sirens
Sirens mean a problem is putting heavy stress on you. Seeing them without the sound is a warning you are trying not to hear.
Sister
A sister stands for the real shape of your bond with her: rivalry, care, or protection. She can also resemble someone else in your waking life.
Sister-In-Law
A sister-in-law stands for traits of hers that you also find in yourself. The waking bond with her colors the picture.
Sit Ups
Sit-ups say pay closer attention to a relationship, to work, or to family. They can also ask for more pride in what you can do.
Sit-Com
See also Comedy.
Sitar
A sitar is passion, joy, and healing, and a link to Indian culture.
Sitting
Sitting is indecision, and time spent idle while life moves on.
Size
Size shows how much importance you give a person or a thing, and how much power is moving between you.
Skateboard
A skateboard is the gift of making a hard situation look easy. It is also a free, playful side.
Skatepark
A skatepark means you are willing to meet obstacles instead of dodging them.
Skating
Skating is the ability to keep your life in balance. It can also mean you are gliding over a matter instead of stopping on it.
Skeeball Machine
A skeeball machine means slim odds do not stop you from chasing the goal.
Skeleton
A skeleton is something still unfinished, often a plan that has not left the drawing stage.
Skeleton Key
A skeleton key opens old feelings and memories you locked away.
Sketch
A sketch of yourself asks for another angle on a situation. It can also mean a hidden trait needs to be drawn out.
Ski
Skiing is a test of mind or body, or the awkwardness of not fitting the situation.
Ski Jump
A ski jump is a project or a bond taking off fast. The landing shows how well it will go.
Ski Lift
A ski lift is new height reached, and a fear you have gotten past.
Ski Mask
A ski mask is a dark secret, or the wish to stay unnamed in a situation.
Skillet
See also Pan.
Skin
Skin is the cover over your inner self. It can also mean you are staying on the surface.
Skinless
Skinless, you or someone else, means feeling and the inner life are hard to sense.
Skinning
Skinning an animal means a raw appetite wants to be admitted.
Skinny
See also Thin.
Skinny Dipping
Skinny-dipping is an open look at what usually stays under the surface of awareness.
Skipping
Skipping asks for a lighter heart. It can also mean something important was passed over.
Skirt
A skirt is the signal you are sending, along with femininity and sexual feeling.
Skirts
Skirts carry the same point as one skirt: a signal you send, plus femininity and sexual feeling.
Skull
A skull is danger or an ending. It can also be intellect and what the mind keeps private.
Skunk
A skunk means you are driving people off. It can also be anger about to burst.
Sky
A clear sky is hope, room to create, and freedom to speak. Color in it adds nature or a particular mood.
Skydiving
Skydiving is ideals set very high. Sometimes they need to come down to what is realistic.
Skylight
A skylight is clarity, and a link to the spiritual side of life.
Skype
See also Video Chat.
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is high aims, creativity, and what you have already built. It can also stand for the phallus.
Skywriting
Skywriting is a spiritual message joining the unseen with ordinary life.
Slander
Being slandered means you are questioning your values and who you are.
Slap
A slap in the face is carelessness, and the feeling of being unappreciated or betrayed.
Slate
Slate is possibility, information, and an openness to other people's ideas.
Slaughter
Slaughtering an animal is the end of some part of yourself. A pig points to greed or laziness being finished off.
Slaughterhouse
A slaughterhouse means one piece of your character may have to be given up before you can go forward.
Slave
Being a slave means you are not running your own life. The master may be a job, a family, a habit, or an obsession.
Slavery
Slavery is power you are not using, or a life with too little freedom.
Sled
A sled is childishness. Riding one is a playful, open way of looking at life.
Sledgehammer
A sledgehammer says break the walls you built around yourself.
Sleep Talking
Sleep talking is distance from someone you used to be close to, and a lack of understanding between you.
Sleeping
Sleeping is peace of mind, or ignorance of what is happening around you.
Sleeping Bag
A sleeping bag is warmth and protection. It can also be a return to a time when you depended on someone completely.
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is beauty that does not fade, or blindness to a situation right in front of you.
Sleeping Pill
A sleeping pill is a choice to stay ignorant. It can also be determination to begin again.
Sleepover
A sleepover is a situation you refuse to accept. It can also ask you to lower your guard and be more open.
Sleepwalk
Sleepwalking is emotional distance from other people, or a routine you follow without thinking.
Sleepy
Feeling sleepy means a chance will pass if you do not act. You may also lack the knowledge the issue requires.
Sleeves
Sleeves say protect yourself from people who are against you. They can also mean roll them up: hard work is coming.
Slide
A slide is instability, and the loss of your hold on a situation or a bond.
Slime
Slime is an inability to trust someone. It can also name a person who feels slimy.
Slingshot
A slingshot is a bitter piece of childhood, and a defensive stance.
Slinky
A Slinky is flexibility and the ability to move fast when a situation shifts.
Slip
Slipping means you are pushing yourself into something you do not want. Wearing a slip can mean a private part of you is showing.
Slippers
Slippers are sluggishness and insecurity, or ease and comfort at home.
Slippery
Slippery ground is a lack of progress, or a warning to be careful.
Slot Machine
A slot machine says watch what you spend, or put time and energy into something more useful.
Sloth
A sloth is passivity, gentleness, or a lack of ambition.
Slow Motion
Slow motion is powerlessness, anxiety, or frustration.
Sludge
Sludge is feeling you reject and find shameful, and a low opinion of yourself.
Slugs
Slugs are slow, steady progress. They can also pun on feeling sluggish.
Slumber Party
See also Sleepover.
Slums
The slums are a dark outlook and ideals that are crumbling. They can also be a poor image of yourself or poor health.
Small
Someone or something smaller than usual is insignificance and helplessness. It can also be an attempt to cut that person down.
Smart
Being smart means you already know enough to make an important choice. The dream may also be compensating for doubt about your mind.
Smartphone
A smartphone is instant contact with the world around you. Those links can fake a sense of community or feed a feeling of not being enough.
Smell
A smell brings back the past and the feeling tied to that scent.
Smelling Salts
Smelling salts say focus on an urgent goal. If they fail or do the reverse, you are refusing a truth that is already in front of you.
Smile
A smile means you are pleased with what you have done and with the choices behind it. It can also be a search for someone or something that would make you glad.
Smiley
A smiley face is approval of your actions. It can also mean your feelings are being brushed off as small.
Smog
Smog is negative feeling, and fear or upset around a situation or a bond.
Smoke
Smoke is trouble coming into your life. Black smoke means you cannot see the problem clearly.
Smoke Detector
A smoke detector is a harmful situation that needs a fast response, or the consequences will arrive.
Smoke Rings
Smoke rings are a relaxed attitude and a lack of concern about other people's opinions.
Smoke Stacks
A smokestack is something rising from the inner mind into awareness. It can also be industry and hard work.
Smoking
Smoking, if you do not smoke while awake, is a shield against feeling, for you and for other people. It can also be an addictive habit or bond.
Smoothie
A smoothie mirrors how life is going, often a road that looks smooth ahead.
Smudging
Smudging means clear out a sour influence. It can also point to a flaw in your character.
Smuggling
Smuggling is an attempt to claim what you believe is already yours, or the feeling of being locked out.
Snails
A snail is oversensitivity, or steady progress toward a goal.
Snake
A snake is a hidden fear that has not fully surfaced, and a warning about something you have not noticed yet. It can also be sexual temptation, or a person who cannot be trusted.
Snake Charmer
A snake charmer is control over sexual desire.
Snapdragon
A snapdragon is forgiveness and kindness. It can also mean you have been snappish.
Sneakers
Sneakers are an easy path with few obstacles, and comfort with who you are.
Sneaking
Sneaking around is shame about what you did, or a lack of confidence that you can reach the goal.
Sneeze
A sneeze is ease and joy, or healing on the inside.
Sniffle
A sniffle is a problem that is growing, especially if you keep ignoring it.
Sniper
A sniper, whether you are one or the target, is aggression kept out of sight that still needs to be admitted.
Snitch
Snitching on someone is insecurity. Someone snitching on you is fear of being found out.
Snob
Being a snob is the habit of judging people before you know them and looking down on them.
Snooze
Snoozing is ignorance of the problems around you, and chances let slip.
Snoring
Snoring, yours or someone else's, means you are oblivious to what is happening. It may also echo a real noise in the room.
Snorkeling
Snorkeling is an exploration of why you feel as you do, including feelings from earlier that still have something to teach.
Snot
Picking your nose is readiness to face inner material, or someone blocking you from speaking fully.
Snout
A snout is a keen sense of smell, and the ability to detect a problem or something suspicious.
Snow
Snow is feeling held back, unsaid, or gone cold. It can also be indifference and the sense of being left alone.
Snow Fox
A snow fox highlights loneliness, chosen or not.
Snow Globe
A snow globe is a wish for peace. It can also mean feeling is not being let out.
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is fear being overcome by skill you already have.
Snowdrop
Snowdrops are hope and a fresh chance after a quiet stretch. They can also echo snow itself falling.
Snowflake
A snowflake is purity, and the fact that you are not like anyone else.
Snowman
A snowman is emotional coldness, or play, holiday cheer, and time spent together.
Snowmobile
A snowmobile is using a chance while it lasts. It can also be a meeting with feeling you had pushed down.
Snowshoe
Snowshoes mean negativity does not stop you. You keep going when other people say you cannot.
Snowstorm
See also Blizzard.
Snowsuit
A snowsuit is protection against negativity, or a reminder of physical limits.
Soap
Soap means wash off an old feeling or an old memory, including shame you still carry.
Soap Opera
A soap opera means your life has turned into drama. The title of the show may add the point.
Soaring
Soaring is freedom from limits, and escape from a bond or a situation that was weighing you down.
Soccer
Soccer is sexuality or aggression expressed in a form other people will accept. The name can also be a crude pun.
Society
Society is your tie to the people around you, and the need for a wider, more cooperative circle.
Socket
A socket says you need to refill your energy. It can also pun on telling someone off.
Socks
Socks are warmth and comfort, or the habit of giving in to what other people want.
Sod
Laying sod means the effort you have put in will return something later.
Soda
Soda says be more lively, or that you need to feel refreshed.
Sofa
See also Couch.
Softball
Softball says stay inside what you can actually do. The bat and the ball can also set a masculine force against a feminine one.
Softness
Softness is a warm, welcoming situation. It can also mean you have been too hard and need to ease.
Software
Software is habits and traits that run you. Installing it is the ability to take on a new way of thinking or working.
Soil
Soil is growth and fertility, and a base that life can stand on.
Solar Panel
Solar panels mean you are open to spiritual guidance. They can also mean you are drained and need a different source of energy.
Solar System
The solar system is a lack of direction, and a mind that wanders.
Soldier
A soldier is discipline, structure, and a rigid stance. It can also mean you are getting ready to fight over an issue.
Solitaire
Solitaire means one action has to finish before the next phase can start. It can also mean you are isolating yourself.
Solstice
The summer solstice is abundance, fertility, and a clearing of understanding.
Somersault
A somersault means you like to take things past the reasonable limit.
Sommelier
Being a sommelier is the part you play when someone else is choosing. Seeing one means you want counsel on which way to go.
Son
A son is your hopes, your potential, and the younger part of you. The word can also pun on the sun.
Son In Law
A son-in-law means you go along and would rather not start a quarrel.
Song
A song is a spiritual way of looking, or lyrics that say what you really feel.
Sonogram
A sonogram is a new phase still developing: a bond, a job, or a move.
Soot
Soot is what does not burn away, and a piece of yourself you would rather not claim.
Sorcerer
A sorcerer is talent, inner strength, and creative power aimed straight at a goal.
Sores
Sores mean bitter feeling and harsh attitudes that need to be let out. You may still be sore about a situation or a bond.
Sorority
A sorority is personal growth and a social change, and the bond of sisterhood.
Sorrow
See also Depression.
Sorry
Being sorry matches waking regret. It can also be a nudge to apologize to someone.
Sort
See also Organize.
Soul
Having no soul is the feeling of being spiritually lost.
Soul Patch
A soul patch is eccentric thinking, and opinions you are willing to say out loud.
Sound
See also Noise.
Sound Waves
Sound waves mean you are in tune with feeling, yours or someone else's. They are also the rise and fall of emotion.
Soup
Soup is emotional hunger or nourishment, and also comfort and healing.
Sour
A sour taste is resentment, or a relationship that is turning bad.
South
South is life, expectation, and questions. It can also be love, passion, and warmth.
South America
South America is an attempt to settle a conflict or get past an obstacle. It can also be spontaneity.
South Pole
The South Pole is hardship you are living through, and the endurance it asks of you.
Souvenir
A souvenir says focus on what is already good in your life.
Sowing
Sowing seeds is a new beginning and a new idea. It can also stand for sex.
Soybean
Soybeans are a health worry, or a decision you are thinking hard about.
Spa
A spa says take time to look after yourself, and wash off an old secret, a pain, or a guilt.
Space
Space is exploration and thinking that does not lean on anyone else. It can also mean you are zoning out.
Space Shuttle
A space shuttle is a look into the unknown. A launch means a project, a bond, or an idea is about to lift in a sudden way.
Spaceship
A spaceship is a creative mind, or the need to try a view that seems strange.
Spades
The ace of spades is impulse, mischief, or a cold heart, plus authority and a fierce need to win.
See also Shovel.
Spaghetti
Spaghetti is long life, nourishment, and plenty. Eating it can mean you are tangled in a messy bond or an awkward spot.
Spanking
Spanking someone means childish temper and tantrums still need work.
Spark
A spark is a fresh idea or a wide field of chances. It can also be a romance just beginning.
Sparkle
Something sparkling needs your attention. It can also be the first heat of a new bond.
Sparrow
A sparrow is quiet dignity. Do not dismiss what looks small or weak.
Spartan
A Spartan meets challenges directly and takes conflict head-on.
Spatula
A spatula is a hard situation you are trying to manage. It can also ask for a different angle of view.
Speakers
Speakers mean you are insisting on being heard, and that your voice needs to carry farther.
Spear
Throwing a spear is will and power driven into a situation. The weapon can also stand for sex.
Spectacles
See also Eyeglasses.
Speculum
A speculum says be more open about sexual wanting.
Speech
Giving a speech means feelings and thoughts need to be said, especially something urgent.
Speed
Taking speed, if that is not your waking habit, means you have put yourself in a risky spot. The word can also pun on haste.
Speed Bump
A speed bump says slow down. A relationship or some other part of life may be moving too fast.
Speedboat
See also Motorboat.
Speeding
Speeding means you are driven to finish something, or that a bond is moving too quickly.
Speeding Ticket
A speeding ticket is a decision or a relationship you rushed into. Life at that pace may not be what it promised.
Speedo
Speedo briefs are confidence, and a lack of concern about other people's opinions.
Speedometer
A speedometer is the pace of your life, whether rushed or crawling.
Spell
Being under a spell means someone holds strong influence over you, and may be steering you.
Spelling
Spelling a word is an attempt to grasp a hard idea by breaking it into smaller pieces.
Spending
Spending money means you are emotionally used up, or wasting yourself on someone who does not return it.
Sperm
Sperm is masculinity, fertility, and the chance of something new growing.
Sphere
A sphere stands for the spiritual side of life.
Sphinx
A sphinx is fear of what you do not know, or a feeling that has gone cold and hard.
Spice
Spice is a need for variety, and for another angle on a situation or a bond.
Spider
A spider is the feeling of being an outsider, or a wish to keep your distance from a tempting situation.
Spiderman
Spiderman means draw on your own strength and will to get through a hard stretch.
Spiders
Spiders, like one spider, mark the feeling of standing outside a group, or a wish to stay clear of temptation.
Spike
Spikes mean your defenses are up against words or emotional harm.
Spill
A spill is carelessness with someone's feelings. It can also mean you are dying to say something, or that a food should leave your diet.
Spin The Bottle
Spin the bottle says take a chance on love.
Spinach
Spinach is a need to feel alive again, or a nudge toward a healthier way of eating.
Spinal Fluid
Spinal fluid is creative energy moving through you.
Spindle
A spindle is life and a long span of years, and the sense that events come around again.
Spine
The spine is your support, your stamina, and the duties you carry. It also says stay firm in what you believe.
Spinning
Spinning is confusion, or motion that does not take you anywhere.
Spinning Wheel
A spinning wheel is creativity, and a reminder to fit the pieces into a wider picture.
Spiral
A spiral is a situation whirling out of control, or creative power and a new idea.
Spire
A spire is ambition, hope, and success. It can also stand for the phallus.
Spirits
Spirits are fear about death, or guidance through a waking problem. The word can also mean alcohol.
See also Alcohol.
Spit
Spitting is a part of yourself you need to be rid of, or something you want to say.
Splash
Being splashed means feeling needs a fuller expression, and that you need to feel alive again.
Splash Mountain
Splash Mountain says take the emotional plunge in a relationship.
Spleen
The spleen says let anger or sadness out, and show a humorous side.
Splice
Splicing is a special ability to connect with other people.
Splinter
A splinter means small, trivial matters are getting under your skin.
Split Ends
Split ends mean the useful fix is to cut the problem out of your life.
Splits
The splits are a struggle or a division among your friends. The word can also mean leave.
Spoiled
Spoiled food means emotional needs are going untended.
Sponge
A sponge takes in new knowledge easily. It can also mean someone is living off someone else.
Spool
A spool is a need for order. It can also be complications piling up.
Spoon
A spoon is a bond in which nourishment has to go both ways. Someone may be getting special treatment.
Sport
Playing a sport is learning the rules, using your talent, and reaching a goal together with other people.
Sport Utility Vehicle
An SUV, if you do not drive one, is a burden you are hauling. It can also be a wish to leave the set path.
Sports Car
A sports car is the wish to live fast, or a warning that you already are.
Spot
A spot is something bothering you, or a flaw.
Spotlight
The spotlight is a hunger for notice and for the room's focus.
Spray Can
A spray can means you are under pressure.
Spring
Spring is hope, a beginning, and creative work, along with warmth and fruitfulness.
Sprinklers
Sprinklers are renewal and a cleansing, with light shed on a situation or a bond.
Sprinkles
Sprinkles are pleasure and thanks for how life is going, with a little sweetness on top.
Sprinkling
A light sprinkle is something new being born, after a long quiet growth.
Spy
Being a spy is mistrust and the habit of getting into everyone's business. It can also warn that you yourself are being watched.
Square
A square is strength and stability, or a limit on how freely you can express yourself.
Squash
Squash, the game, is an attempt to get past obstacles. The word can also mean you want to crush a person or a plan.
Squeegee
A squeegee is a search for clarity.
Squeeze
Squeezing means make room for other things. It can also mean you are pressuring someone.
Squid
A squid is a threat you feel but cannot quite see, and judgment that has gone cloudy.
Squint
Squinting means a situation or a bond needs a closer look. The picture is still hazy.
Squirrel
A squirrel is hoarding, or a reminder to save your time and energy.
Stab
Being stabbed is a struggle over who holds power, or betrayal from someone behind you.
Stable
A stable is sexuality and how well you govern sexual energy. The word can also pun on financial, mental, or emotional steadiness.
Stadium
A stadium is determination to reach your goals.
Staff
A staff is reassurance and support for a decision you have made. It can also be a journey, spiritual or physical.
Stag
A stag is male sexuality and vigor. It can also be grace, agility, and renewal.
Stage
A stage is how you behave with other people and how you manage them. The performance may match a waking scene.
Stage Diving
Stage diving is a risk taken with full trust in the people around you.
Stagecoach
A stagecoach is an emotional or physical load you are still carrying.
Stain
A stain is a mistake that is shallow and can still be undone. If it will not come out, it is guilt or a refusal to let go.
Stained Glass
Stained glass is spiritual healing and a search for guidance from something higher.
Staircase
A staircase is change. Missing steps mean you are trying to reach the next stage before the earlier work is done.
Stairlift
A stairlift is a long spiritual journey that needs support along the way.
Stairs
Walking upstairs is a higher understanding, and progress in spirit, feeling, or material life.
Stalk
Being followed means a problem you refuse to face, or a habit you have failed to quit.
Stallion
A stallion is power, courage, masculinity, and independence. Riding one means that strength is already yours or soon will be.
See also Horse.
Stampede
A stampede is wild, erratic behavior that needs more restraint.
Stamps
Stamps are a need to communicate. They can also pun on stamping your feet.
Standing
Standing is asserting yourself and making thoughts known. It can also be detachment from your surroundings.
Staples
Staples mean put your life in order. They can also be the basic things you cannot do without.
Star Fruit
Star fruit is the sweet taste of success, and a sign you are headed the right way.
Star Of David
The Star of David is love joined with creativity, and heaven joined with earth.
Starfish
A starfish is healing and regrowth, or many options still waiting for a decision.
Staring
Staring means a situation or a bond deserves a harder look, perhaps from another angle.
Stars
Stars are excellence, success, and high aims. They can also mean you are being too idealistic.
Starvation
Starvation is a lack in mind or feeling, often a family issue you are avoiding.
State Capital
A state capital puns on money. What that state means to you adds the rest.
Static
Static is a personality that draws things toward you, or friction from disagreement.
Station
A station is a life in transition. Take a short pause and choose the next path.
Station Wagon
A station wagon is family and the inner circle, and hesitation about the direction you have chosen.
Statistics
Statistics mean a decision is weighing on you as you count the gains and the costs.
Statue
People turned to statues are a bond with no real talk, stiff and going nowhere. A statue can also be someone you admire.
Statue Of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is personal or cultural freedom, and also enterprise and patriotism.
Steak
Eating steak is animal instinct, and a nudge to trust it more.
Stealing
Stealing is the feeling of being deprived, or goals that never got fulfilled.
Stealth Bomber
A stealth bomber is a danger you cannot see hanging over you.
Steam
Steam is intense feeling about an issue, often anger that needs a release.
Steam Engine
A steam engine is anger turned into useful work.
Steamroller
A steamroller is determination that will not let anyone block the goal.
Steel
Steel is toughness, will, and strength. The word can also pun on theft.
Steep
A steep climb is real progress toward a life goal.
Steer
A steer is masculine sexual energy. It can also be a god-figure, or a pun on steering the right way.
See also Bull.
Steering Wheel
A steering wheel is control over the direction your life is taking.
Stem
A flower stem is the support under you. Bent or broken, it is stress or vulnerability.
Stencil
A stencil is a lack of freedom. Someone will not let you act freely or live as yourself.
Stepdaughter
A stepdaughter is the work of setting limits without trampling anyone. If you have none, the figure may be your daughter or another young woman in your life.
Stepfather
A stepfather is authority and protection. His traits may be ones you need to take into yourself.
Stepmother
A stepmother is the struggle with a mothering figure, whether you feel smothered or neglected.
Stepping Stone
A stepping stone says reach the goal one move at a time. Those moves may be laid out in front of you.
Steps
Steps are the effort behind ambition and material gain, or the first move you still need to take.
Stepsister
A stepsister usually reflects the waking bond with her. The dream may come because you feel threatened or overlooked.
Stepson
A stepson, like a stepdaughter, is boundary-setting done carefully. If you have no stepson, the figure may be your son or another young man.
Stereo
A stereo is harmony and sharper awareness. What you hear may be a message from your own mind.
Sterile
See also Intertile.
Sterilize
Sterilizing something is a need for a deep cleaning, spiritual or emotional.
Steroids
Steroids are the search for a quick, easy route to a goal.
Stethoscope
A stethoscope says pay closer attention to advice about your health.
Stew
Stew is parts of yourself being joined into one. Beef stew in particular asks you to bring childhood into adult life.
Stewardess
See also Flight Attendant.
Stick
A stick stands for male sexuality and for how you feel about it. It can also be a sticky situation, or the need to defend what you believe.
Stick Figure
A stick figure is simple needs, or a spotlight on your weaknesses.
Sticker
Stickers are a refusal to let go of an earlier self. The picture on the sticker names the part you will not release.
Stiff
Stiffness is anxiety and tension, or a manner that has grown withdrawn and harshly judging.
Stigmata
Stigmata are sacrifices you made and difficulties you endured. They can also be how fiercely you hold a belief.
Stiletto
Stilettos are female sexuality and a dominating stance.
Stillborn
A stillbirth is trust that has failed, or an innocence that is gone. It can also be a project that ended before it could live.
Stilts
Stilts are insecurity, and a situation or a bond that will not stay steady.
Sting
A sting is a hurtful act or a cutting remark.
Stingray
See also Manta Ray.
Stinks
Something that stinks means your circle or your surroundings are not supporting you. It can also be suspicion.
Stitches
Stitches are your job of holding a situation or a bond together, and the fear that it is coming apart.
Stock Market
The stock market is the rise and fall of your life, and a willingness to take risks.
Stockings
Stockings are understanding. Torn or run, they are a drop in confidence.
Stolen
Something stolen is a crisis of identity or a loss. It can also be credit taken for work you did.
Stomach
The stomach is the start of a new change, or a situation you can no longer tolerate.
Stomachache
A stomachache is high stress, or a painful feeling you refuse to face.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a spiritual opening, or a force that feels mysterious and powerful.
Stones
Stones are strength, unity, and beliefs that will not bend. They also ask you to notice thoughts you have pushed down.
Stoning
Stoning someone is a sense of being above them, or anger stored up inside a close bond.
Stool
A stool says take a break so you can recover your energy.
Stop Sign
A stop sign says halt and rethink before you go on. It is also a barrier in the path.
Stoplight
A stoplight is the feeling of being held back, with progress controlled by someone else or by outside forces.
Stopwatch
A stopwatch says manage time more carefully. You may be running out of it.
Storage
Putting things in storage is needs or feelings pushed down. What is stored can also be memories you are keeping.
Store
A store is mental and emotional strain, or a search among many choices for a new idea. The word can pun on what is in store.
See also Market.
Stork
A stork is motherly love, faithfulness, and a birth, which may be an idea finally coming to life.
Story
Writing a story is creativity, or feeling you cannot say out loud.
Storyteller
A storyteller says keep yesterday close enough to study it.
Stove
A stove is awareness growing. It can also mean something you set aside now needs your attention.
Stowaway
A stowaway is underhanded activity, and a weak sense of belonging.
Straddle
Straddling something means you have not chosen, because picking one side might push the other away.
Strainer
A strainer means feeling will not stay contained. It can also ask you to separate emotion from the facts.
Strait Jacket
A straitjacket is a life that feels tightly limited.
Stranded
Being stranded is isolation, and a wish for someone to come and get you out.
Strange
A strange place is change. Fear or getting lost there means you are not ready for it.
Stranger
A stranger is a part of you kept hidden, or a helper offering advice.
Strangle
Being strangled means a vital way of expressing yourself is being shut off.
Straw
A straw means you have been treating some things as ordinary. It can also mean feelings need a healthier outlet.
Strawberry
Strawberries are sensual temptation, or ideas and goals that are about to arrive.
Stray
A stray animal is feeling unwanted and out of touch. It can also mean you are drifting from a commitment.
Streaking
Streaking is a brief wish to be wild, free, and unplanned.
Stream
A stream is a flow of fresh ideas, and the movement of feeling.
Street
A street is the path of your life. The name on it may be part of the advice.
See also Road.
Street Sweeper
A street sweeper means clear some things away before you can move ahead.
Streetcar
See also Trolley.
Streetlight
See also Lamppost.
Strength
Strength, great or small, is how much power you hold in a waking situation.
Stress
Stress in the dream mirrors stress you already carry: setbacks, doubt, or criticism.
Stretch Marks
Stretch marks mean you extend yourself for other people and neglect your own needs. They can also be the sense that you are failing someone's expectations.
Stretcher
A stretcher is the need to be rescued from a situation or a bond.
Stretching
Stretching is a need for rest. It can also mean you are pulled too thin, in money, body, feeling, or time.
Strike
Going on strike is feeling underappreciated, or being pushed into work you do not want.
String
String is a tie that holds things together, and how deeply you are in a project or a bond.
String Lights
String lights mean you can shift how you see things.
Strip Club
A strip club is sexual thought you have held back and now want released.
Stripes
Stripes are a bold statement. Horizontal ones are directness; vertical ones are a refusal to match the crowd.
Stripper
A stripper is the wish to be more sexually open.
Stripper Pole
A stripper pole says get more comfortable with your body. It can also stand for the phallus.
Stripping
Stripping is desire, personal or physical, kept down. It can also mean something you valued has been taken.
Strobe Light
A strobe light is chaos, or the need for another point of view.
Stroke
A stroke is the inability to function in a particular waking situation.
Stroller
See also Baby Carriage.
Strongman
See also Body Builder.
Structure
Asian-style buildings point to feelings that seem foreign, especially if that culture is not your own.
Struggle
A struggle is an inner conflict you are making larger than it needs to be.
Stubble
Stubble on someone's face means a situation to avoid. On your own face, it means you are already avoiding one.
Stucco
Stucco is a hard shell and an emotional barrier.
Stuck
Being stuck is helplessness, with no way out of the stress.
Student
Being a student means you need a clearer understanding before you can get ahead.
Studying
Studying means knowledge can carry you toward success. It can also mean you need to know yourself better.
Stuffed Animal
A stuffed animal is an immature attitude, or a need to relax and take things less seriously.
Stumble
Stumbling means something in life is out of order, or a waking decision is about to go wrong.
Stump
A tree stump is someone or something blocking your growth. It can also pun on being stumped.
Stun Gun
A stun gun's hit is a need for a jolt of energy, or a warning to stop and think before you act.
Stunt
A stunt means the bid for notice has gotten excessive.
Stutter
Stuttering is the inability to be heard clearly, or nerves about what you are saying.
Styrofoam
Styrofoam marks a life in transition. A cup of it is insecurity inside a relationship.
Submarine
A submarine is a cautious look at feeling under the surface, or a call for a new understanding of an issue.
Subtitle
Subtitles mean what is being said lacks clarity, or a lesson you should carry into the day.
Suburbia
Suburbia is potential, growth, family, and a picture of an ideal life.
Subway
A subway is reaching a goal by an inner route, or a decision made too fast.
Success
Success is confidence and a brighter outlook, meant to push you toward the goal.
Succubus
A succubus is sexual desire under the surface, or jealousy.
Succulents
Succulents are a thirst for knowledge, and the release of resentment.
Sucking
Sucking on something is a need to be nurtured, or a low opinion of yourself.
Suction Cup
A suction cup is uncertainty and a weak commitment.
Sudoku
Sudoku is a hard mental problem. The numbers that stand out are part of the clue.
Suede
Suede is a manner that is soft and still tough, with an instinctive, sexual edge.
Suffocating
Suffocating is the feeling of being smothered by a situation or a bond. Someone may be holding you back.
Suffocation
Suffocation is that same smothering, and a warning that a love bond could end in a bitter split.
Sugar
Sugar is pleasure and enjoyment you have been refusing yourself.
Sugar Cane
Sugar cane is vitality, health, and standing.
Suicide
Ending your own life here is a fierce wish to leave the life you are awake in. It can also be the close of one version of you and the opening of another.
Suit
A suit is the wish to be recognized for your skill.
Suitcase
A suitcase is a composed, put-together self, or a real need for a break.
Sulfur
Sulfur is a higher kind of reasoning, and a reminder to trust intuition along with logic.
Sultan
A sultan is duty and expectation. He can also be a controlling father.
Summer
Summer is growth, productivity, tolerance, and a widening understanding.
Summit
A summit is ambition and the goals in front of you. What you can see from the top matters.
Sumo
A sumo wrestler means you are throwing weight and power around.
Sun
The sun is peace of mind, insight, goodwill, and a radiant kind of power.
Sunbird
A sunbird means people are underrating you because of size or appearance.
Sunburn
A sunburn is an emotional problem you can no longer dodge.
Sundae
A sundae is joy, company, and satisfaction with waking life. The word can pun on Sunday.
Sunday
Sunday is spiritual rest and a quieter appreciation.
Sundial
A sundial means some part of ordinary days feels unreal, or that the aims you set cannot be lived.
Sunflower
A sunflower is warmth, plenty, long life, and prosperity, and a pointer toward a sound direction.
Sunglasses
Sunglasses are a poor reading of an issue, and a habit of seeing only the dark side.
Sunrise
Sunrise is a beginning, renewed energy, and a purpose coming into reach.
Sunroof
A sunroof is enlightenment and a link to the spiritual side of life.
Sunroom
A sunroom is a spiritual waking, and a strong tie to that side of you.
Sunscreen
Sunscreen is a refusal to see the truth, or advice you are rejecting.
Sunset
Sunset is the end of a cycle, and a stretch for rest and review.
Sunshine
Sunshine is an emotional or situational breakthrough, and reassurance that you are on a sound track.
Suntan
A suntan is the shadow side and raw instinct, and also hard work.
Super Soaker
A super soaker is aggression aimed at one person. It can also stand in for sex.
Supercar
A supercar means you are moving ahead on your own terms, and you want people to notice.
Superhero
Being a superhero is talent and ability you may not have claimed yet. It can also match an extraordinary problem you are facing.
Superman
Superman is a heroic male figure, and a picture of power and masculinity.
Supermarket
See also Market.
Supernova
A supernova is something brilliant and new, or hopes that have shattered.
Superpower
A superpower is the habit of finding what is still good in a bad situation, and confidence in what you can do.
Supervillain
A supervillain means you are feeding the worst parts of yourself.
Supper
See also Dinner.
Surfboard
A surfboard is going along with events. It can also say take more initiative about where you are headed.
Surfing
Surfing matches the rise and fall of a feeling or a bond. It can also mean you are simply going along.
Surgery
Surgery is an opening of the self and a need for emotional healing, or something that has to be removed from your life.
Surgical Mask
A surgical mask is fear of change, or the inability to say what you think.
Surprise
A pleasant surprise means you are willing to face feelings that usually stay under the surface.
Surrender
Surrender means let go of old feeling and old habit. It can also mean you are giving up something that matters.
Surrogate
A surrogate is an attempt to fill in for something missing.
Surroundings
See also Landscape.
Surveillance Camera
A surveillance camera is the feeling of being watched and judged, and a habit of trying to please.
Survey
Taking a survey is an attempt to measure your abilities and size up a situation.
Survivor
Surviving a disaster means you will get through the problems you are in now.
Sushi
Sushi says acknowledge the spiritual side, or face feeling that is still raw.
Suspended
Being suspended from school is disconnection, or guilt about what you did.
Suspenders
Suspenders are the effort to hold yourself up. They can also pun on being left hanging.
Suspicious
Suspicion is intuition mixed with insecurity about a situation or a bond. It can also mean you feel unprepared.
Swab
A swab is a need for healing and for cleansing.
Swaddle
Being swaddled is a search for security, or helplessness in a situation.
Swallow
Swallowing something means words or anger are being held back, or that pride has to be set down. The bird of the same name is purity, renewal, and a fresh start.
Swamp
A swamp is the darker part of you that you keep down. It can also pun on feeling swamped by work or by a bond.
Swan
A white swan is grace, beauty, dignity, and standing. What looked unappealing at first may turn out to attract you.
Swap Meet
A swap meet is feeling undervalued, or something in life that needs to be exchanged.
Swarm
A swarm is a sour influence, or a group effort.
Swastika
A swastika is hatred, cruelty, and destruction, in the sense tied to the Nazis.
Swearing
Swearing means stop letting people harass you. Hearing someone else swear means an urgent matter was overlooked.
Sweat
Sweat is anxiety, fear, or nerves that have grown too large. It can also be a cleansing of what has gone wrong.
Sweater
A sweater is warmth and love. It can also be innocence or naive thinking.
Sweatshirt
A sweatshirt is the need to relax and step away from work or school.
Sweatshop
A sweatshop is unhappiness at work, or the feeling of being undervalued and hemmed in.
Sweeping
Sweeping is clearing mental and emotional clutter. It can also mean you are ignoring facts and going against your own instinct.
Sweet
A sweet taste means life is going well, or that a decision has approval to move ahead.
Sweet Potato
A sweet potato points to a mismatch in sexual appetite between you and the person you are with.
Sweetgum Tree
A sweetgum tree is fertility, plenty, and long life. Its seed ball is protection.
Sweets
Sweets are indulgence and pleasure you may have been refusing yourself.
Swelling
Swelling is a problem that is growing. The part that swells names where.
Swimming
Swimming is an exploration of feeling, and sometimes a search for emotional support. Swimming away is avoidance of a feeling that still hurts; children in the water ask for a more carefree attitude.
Swimming Gear
Swimming gear means you are ready to face a painful feeling.
Swimming Pool
A swimming pool is calm, luxury, and ease, or feelings you need to enter and understand. Deep water is emotion that sits far down; an empty pool is feeling emptied out.
Swimsuit
A swimsuit is feeling exposed and emotionally unprotected. How you feel in it tells the rest.
Swing
A swing is satisfaction, freedom, and the back-and-forth of a cycle. It can also be a wish for sexual variety, or indecision that keeps you moving both ways.
Swiss
Swiss cheese is holes in the way you think, or a person who is Swiss.
See also Cheese.
Swiss Army Knife
A Swiss Army knife means you handle many kinds of situations well. Shopping for one means a skill is missing and you need help.
Switch
A switch shows whether a situation or a bond is active. It can also mean something was traded or altered.
Switchblade
A switchblade is hidden danger, or a decision that has to be made quickly.
Sword
A sword is strength, ambition, and will. It can also stand for masculine power.
Swordfish
A swordfish is the ability to cut through feeling and past emotional walls. It can also be masculine sexuality.
Sycamore
A sycamore is someone you want to be like. Notice who stands near the tree.
Symbol
An unknown symbol is confusion or ignorance about a situation. Its shape is the clue.
Sympathy
Sympathy here often means the reverse: you are short on it while awake, and emotionally distant.
Symphony
A symphony is people working in tune, in a situation or a bond, and a renewal of inspiration.
Synagogue
A synagogue is a need for spiritual nourishment, or a refuge for what you hold dear.
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is harmony, and the work of joining different parts of yourself so life can hold together.
Syringe
A syringe points to illness or to drug use, or to a need for more enthusiasm and determination in ordinary life.
See also Injection.
Syrup
Syrup is sentiment and nostalgia. It can also mean you are stuck in a sticky situation.