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.
W
Walls
A wall is a limit and a habit blocking progress. Jumping it means you clear a hard obstacle.
Warmth
Felt warmth is contentment in what you have done, plus hope and love without conditions.
Wash Bowl
A basin says you are ready to wash off old hurt you still carry.
Washboard
Scrubbing on a board is hard work that leaves you drained. It can also refer to your build.
Washerwoman
This worker says accept help cleaning up your act. You cannot do every task alone.
Washing
Washing yourself is pride in your social life and a chance of recognition, or a cleansing of neglected feeling so you can start fresh.
Washing Machine
This machine says settle the past before a clean start is possible.
Wasp
A wasp is anger and ill feeling, or a pun on a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant and the social world that comes with that. A white one chasing you can be a pale figure after you.
Waste
Waste means energy spent on something that is not worth it, or a life you are squandering and should reevaluate.
Wastebasket
See also Garbage Can.
Watch
A watch says your days are too rigid and you need more spontaneity. It also ticks like the heart, so feeling is involved.
Watchdog
See also Guard Dog.
Watching
Watching from the side is passivity. Life is going by while you refuse to join it.
Watchman
Standing guard means stay alert for someone who means you harm.
Water
Water is your emotional state and the flow of inner life, plus healing and refreshment. Boiling water is turmoil coming out in words or acts.
Water Balloon
A thrown balloon is feeling vented in a playful, indirect way. One thrown at you is anger aimed in your direction.
Water Bending
Command of water is command of feeling. You can hide what you feel.
Water Bottle
A bottle keeps hope up and renews you. Empty, you have held on too long, or spiritual energy is low.
Water Cooler
The cooler is feeling bottled for a controlled release, or office talk and a hunger for conversation.
Water Fountain
Drinking here means you feel emotionally refreshed.
Water Gun
A toy gun is passive anger: playful enough that others miss the real feeling.
Water Heater
A heater is anger kept inside and still under control. If it blows, that anger is about to erupt.
Water Hose
A hose is renewal and the washing of emotional wounds so you can grow. It can also be a sexual metaphor, or a pun on being cheated.
Water Lily
This flower is grief and bereavement.
Water Park
Playing here is an emotional high. You feel satisfied.
Water Polo
This game means you can stay inside feeling and still steer toward a goal, keeping judgment and emotion apart.
Water Purifier
A filter says express feeling more clearly.
Water Skiing
Gliding on the surface is a lift in spirit and confidence, with a new freedom.
Waterbed
A bed of water means you are slowly admitting subconscious material, including sexuality, fear, or aggression.
Waterfall
Falling water is a release of pent-up feeling, or the goals you want. Clear water is renewal.
Watering Hole
Drinking here means feelings are in hand and people around you support you.
Watermelon
This fruit is love, desire, and heat. People who are pregnant, or near a cycle, often picture it as a changing body.
Watermill
A mill says use the resources you already have and move toward the goal at a steady pace.
Waterslide
A slide means emotion is carrying you, or you are going along without resistance.
Waves
Calm waves are renewal and a decision you are reflecting on. Riding one is an attempt to handle feeling.
Waving
A wave hello is connection and a bid for attention, or a trait in that person you want for yourself.
Wax
Wax means too much activity; slow down. It can also mean you are easily impressed.
Way
Losing the way threatens failure. Finding it is the choices still in front of you.
Weak
Weakness is inadequacy. Be firmer and stand up for yourself.
Wealth
Being rich means the aim is finished and the reward is in hand. Other people being rich means draw on their support, or notice envy.
Weapons
A weapon is a need to defend yourself in a conflict. It can also be a hidden wish to hurt, expressed safely in the picture rather than in life.
Weasel
A weasel is distrust of others, or deceitful behavior of your own.
Weather
The sky is your mood: storms are conflict, rain is sadness, sun is hope. The word can pun on whether you should act.
Weather Vane
A vane is unpredictability, or going in circles. It can pun on vanity, or on effort spent in vain.
Weave
A hair weave pictures success you are imagining, or passing someone else's work off as yours. A bad one means the pose is obvious.
Weaving
Weaving is piecing information into one picture, and it is also creativity.
Web
A web is a wish to control everything, or a trap that keeps you from expressing yourself. It can be your social network.
Web Cam
Being on camera means a message you want a wide network of people to hear.
Wedding
A wedding is a new beginning and your questions about commitment and independence. It can also carry anxiety, bitterness, or a symbolic sense of ending.
See also Marriage.
Wedding Cake
Cutting the cake is harmony at home and a bright stretch ahead. Eating it is sensuality.
Wedding Dress
The dress means you are assessing a personal bond. Worn in the wrong setting, it is a feeling of being unworthy.
Wedding Rehearsal
A rehearsal says prepare for an important transition.
Wedding Ring
A ring is completeness and lasting love. Finding one when you are unmarried means a bond has reached a new level.
Wedge
A wedge is backing when you need it, and proof you can request that help.
Wedlock
See also Marriage.
Wednesday
This weekday is misery over a decision, stuck in the middle. As the midweek hump, it can encourage you: you are halfway.
Weeds
Pulling weeds means clear negativity so you can grow and drop old grudges. Seeing them means you feel neglected and cast aside.
Week
A week is how you manage time. It can also pun on being weak.
Weeping
Tears here are deep sadness you have been suppressing. Holding it in is not helping.
Weevil
This beetle means losses and deception.
Weighing
Putting something on a scale means you are judging its worth, or weighing options. What you weigh is the clue.
Weight
Your weight is self-worth, influence, and the burdens you carry, or worry about your shape. It can pun on wait.
Weightlifter
A lifter says sharpen your power and put it to use.
Weightlifting
Lifting is strength. One person can do more than you assume.
Welcome
Being welcomed is self-acceptance and pride in who you are becoming, or openness to new ideas. Welcoming others is trust.
Welding
Joining metal means take a habit or a trait into your life so the pieces make a whole.
Welfare
Public aid in the picture is shame about your circumstances. The word can play on wellness, fairness, or how you are faring.
Well
A well is hidden talent not yet recognized, and the depth of feeling you store there. It can also pun on being well.
Werewolf
A shape-shifter means something is not what it seems, with fear and anger you do not control. Being one means a side of you can damage your own health.
West
Going west is fulfillment and growth, or death, old age, and an ending.
Western
The old frontier is resourcefulness, and a hint to stop overthinking. It also asks you to be straightforward about your intentions.
Wet
Being wet means emotion has overcome you, or a spiritual cleansing and renewal. It can also imply sexual arousal.
Wet Nurse
Needing one means you feel unable to provide for your family. Being one says be careful whom you trust with confidences.
Wet Suit
A suit for the water means you are exploring inner feeling at a pace that feels safe. The same picture can shade into fear of what you do not yet know.
Whac-A-Mole
This arcade game is material pushing up from underneath, or a situation you cannot get back under control. Effort feels futile.
Whale
A whale is intuition and spiritual awareness, or a project too big to handle. The name can pun on wailing and a need to cry out.
Wheat
Grain is prosperity and doors opening, and also fertility and renewal. A field of it is success on the way.
Wheatgrass
Drinking this points to health. In a white jar it is purity and a cleansing of the body.
Wheel
A wheel is a familiar cycle that may have become mere repetition. It can also be forward motion.
Wheel Of Fortune
The spinning wheel means you leave too much to chance. Take hold of your own course.
Wheelbarrow
A barrow is hard labor, and your body moving through life. What it carries shows where you are headed.
Wheelchair
If you do not use one awake, sitting in one means a situation has made you helpless and other people push you. Start steering again.
Wheelie
Balancing on one wheel is a fast life with several things in the air at once.
Whip
A whip is punishment, shame, and sometimes an abusive circumstance, kept as a symbol. It can also mean you need more discipline.
Whiplash
A neck injury is conflict with someone at school, work, or home. It puns on a person who is a pain in the neck.
Whipped Cream
This topping is light pleasure and a full enjoyment of life. It can also be sexual desire.
Whipping Boy
A scapegoat means reckless habits are harming you. Change the path before it wrecks you.
Whirlpool
Spinning water is emotional turmoil.
Whirlwind
Standing in its path means suppressed anger is surfacing and pulling you into a confrontation you did not choose.
Whisk
A whisk means a situation needs a fast decision.
Whiskers
Whiskers mean you are still feeling out a situation.
Whisky
Bottles on a shelf match alertness and a protective nature. Drinking means selfishness may cost you friends, or you are escaping responsibility.
Whispering
A whisper says listen more carefully, or it is anxiety that people talk about you. Whispering yourself means you lack the nerve to speak up.
Whistle
A whistle is a warning that needs attention now, or the end of a phase.
White
White is purity, peace, innocence, and a fresh start, or a blank slate and sometimes a cover-up. In some Eastern readings it is linked with death and mourning.
White House
This building follows your feelings about the government and its laws. It also stands for formal power.
White Moth
A white moth warns of sickness and, as a symbol, of death.
Whiteout
Correction fluid means you are suppressing a point of view, or you want to start over and regret a past mistake.
Whitewash
Painting over a surface is an attempt to change old habits, or only a pretense of change that covers flaws.
Whore
See also Prostitute.
Wicker
Woven furniture is a support system: you grow stronger by holding others up so they hold you.
Widow
If you are not one awake, being a widow is loneliness and a feeling of abandonment. It can also be freedom and independence.
Wife
Your wife points to discord and feelings you are not saying. If you have no wife, she is the feminine side of you, or a wish for that bond.
Wife Swapping
See also Partner Swapping.
Wig
A wig is deception and other people's ideas passed off as yours. Think for yourself.
Wild
Wildness is the uninhibited, animal side you feel freer to show asleep than awake.
Wild Hog
A hog is ferocity and courage, and a wish to escape duty, especially if it runs. Hunting one is a search for balance.
Wildcat
A wildcat is a feminine side you have neglected, or a hunger for excitement in social life or sex.
Wildebeest
This herd animal means life feels out of control and negative feeling is winning.
Wilderness
Running in open country means you feel free, with nothing holding you back.
Wildfire
Fire across the land says change comes through hardship. It can also be anger spreading to the people around you.
Wildflowers
These blooms say simplify. You need fewer complications.
Will
Writing a will is looking ahead into a new phase, or a decision that is final. It can pun on willingness, or on what you leave behind.
Willow
A willow is mourning and loss, or survival and rebirth.
Wilted
Drooping plants mean you are drained, perhaps depressed, or you are wasting talent.
Win
Winning is success and new confidence, a push to keep going. It can also stand for a sexual conquest, as a symbol.
Wind
A breeze is life force and change. It can say pick up the pace.
Wind Chimes
Chimes are harmony, or memories and time passing.
Windmill
A windmill is the power of the mind and your emotional weather. It also means resourcefulness.
Window
A window is hope and insight. A small one means you keep expectations low; a large one means you are open.
Window Bars
Bars mean a chance you can see but cannot reach. They also mark mistrust.
Window Shopping
Looking without buying means you feel shut out of luxury, or you are searching for what your life lacks.
Window Washer
A washer clarifies a situation and gives you a cleaner view of an issue.
Windshield
The glass ahead is the choices in front of you, or a wrong approach to a goal. Cracked glass is a skewed outlook.
Windshield Wipers
Wipers clear the view and seek a better perspective, often through emotional turmoil.
Windsock
A sock in the wind says aim your energy at something productive instead of merely drifting.
Wine
Drinking wine is celebration, company, and success. It can pun on whining.
Wine Cellar
A cellar stores past experience, both the good and the bad.
Wine Glass
A glass is happiness, and it can symbolize pregnancy. Breaking it may stand for miscarriage, as a symbol of loss rather than a prediction.
Wine Rack
A rack welcomes change and marks a joyous occasion.
Winery
Being at a winery is a wish to enjoy life fully and to find spiritual fulfillment.
Wing
Having wings is new freedom and success without a ceiling, or an escape from a hard spot. Angel wings are a gentle quality or a need for protection.
Wingsuit
A flying suit is high ambition and a carefree willingness to be carried.
Wink
A wink means someone is up to something and you are in on a secret. It can also signal romance.
Winter
Winter can be poor health, a low mood, and emotional cold. For others it is the holiday season of togetherness.
Wipe
Wiping clean is a fresh start. Wipes themselves clear negativity; disinfectant ones say sterilize a bad influence.
Wire
Wiring is energy flow and tension, or your links to other people. Old rusty wire is a bad temper.
Wiretap
A tapped phone means face what is underneath, or you fear a secret being exposed.
Wisdom Teeth
These teeth are new knowledge about yourself, or a prompt to think a situation through before you act.
Wise
Feeling wise affirms that you can succeed on the path you have chosen.
Wish
Making a wish is something missing that you long for, and hope for later. It can also mean you are indecisive.
Wishbone
A wishbone is family, celebration, and hope. The larger piece is a positive turn; the smaller one is disappointment.
Witch
A witch can be destruction and a harsh view of dangerous women, or goodness and enchantment, depending on how she feels in the picture.
Witch's Ball
A sweetgum ball is protection, or a prickly situation you cannot detach from.
Witchcraft
The craft is inner change, or a sense that someone is steering you and the scene around you.
Witness
Witnessing says look more closely and more objectively. It can also mean life is passing while you stay detached.
Wizard
A wizard means you are honing skill and exercising power.
Wok
Cooking in a wok is support and warmth if you already cook that way, and the lack of support if you do not.
Woke
See also Awaken.
Wolf
A wolf is survival, solitude, and pride, with ease in any social setting and a choice to stand apart. Negatively it is hostility and stealth.
Wolverine
This animal is fierce strength. Do not underestimate yourself.
Woman
A woman is care, love, and your own feminine side or your mother. She can also be temptation and guilt.
Womb
Being inside the womb is a retreat to safety and dependence, away from daily demand. Seeing it is fertility and a new beginning.
Wombat
This animal says stay grounded and come back to what is real.
Wonder Woman
This hero is a strong woman in your life, or a feeling that you can handle anything. Being her can also mean life's demands are too many.
Wonderland
See also Alice In Wonderland.
Wonton
These dumplings are warmth, family, and togetherness. The name can pun on wanton, immoral behavior.
Wood
Wood can mean you feel dead and automatic inside. It can pun on sexual arousal.
Wood Paneling
Paneling is outdated surroundings and a view of the world that is stuck in an old period.
Woodchuck
This animal is news from underneath that you are ready to face.
Wooden Leg
A wooden leg means balance has returned after chaos, with other people's support. It can also say slow down.
Wooden Shoe
A wooden shoe stands for solitude and unfaithfulness.
Woodpecker
This bird means you overlooked something. It also stands for steady work.
Woods
The woods are fertility and spring, or the unknown and your instinct. Walking through them is a return to a simpler side of yourself.
Wool
Wool is warmth and protection from people who love you, or naivete. The phrase about wool over the eyes means you have been duped.
Words
Random words mean a cluttered mind. They can pun on giving your word.
Work
Being at work is anxiety about a task, or a nudge to stop stalling and get back to it. It can also reflect success already earned.
Workman
Workers say work on yourself. A part of you is still unused.
Workshop
A workshop is skill being developed, and a search for who you are.
World
The world ending is heavy stress and helplessness. Saving it is confidence in your ability and in the direction you are headed.
World Trade Center
These towers mean a situation or a bond is collapsing and you have lost control. The picture can also be feeling left from the real attacks, or a waking event that stirs the same emotion.
Worm
A worm is a poor view of yourself or of another person, and a skewed self-image. It can also be someone who cannot be trusted.
Wormhole
Passing through one means you are desperate to leave present reality.
Worry
Worry in sleep is waking worry carried over, often from resentment or hostility you have not said.
Worship
Worship means you give too much attention to a person or an object. It can also mean you are open to outside influence.
Wound
A wound is grief or distress, and a need to slow down and heal. Where it sits matters.
Wrapping
Wrapping something hides the truth or makes an ugly fact easier to accept. The paper's color adds a note.
Wreath
A wreath is honor and completeness, or mourning and self-pity, and the end of a bond. Giving one marks a tie to that person.
Wreck
A wreck is obstacles. You feel held back and unable to progress.
Wren
This small bird is good luck.
Wrench
A wrench is the wish to repair a situation or a relationship and put it back in order.
Wrestling
A match means a personal or work problem has you in a clinch, along with habits that need to come back under control.
Wrinkle
A line on skin is growing older or wiser, and lessons taken from experience.
Wrist
The wrist joins fun with productive work, and the knack of getting others involved. An injured wrist is lost productivity and a one-sided bond.
Wristwatch
A watch on the wrist says loosen a life that is too scheduled. It also ticks like the heart, so feeling is in the picture, and it can mean the list of duties has slipped away from you.
Writing
Putting words down is a message to someone or to your own mind. It can be a bad judgment, a pun on being right, or ancient script that asks you to learn from the past.
Wrong
Being wrong is doubt about your choices, or an admission. Going the wrong way means effort is wasted and the path is a negative one.