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.
The dream body is the self you are living in. A part that is hurt, missing, or changed asks you to look at the life it stands for.
A
Abdomen
Your belly holds something you cannot accept and need to let out. A swollen one means a project is forming; a bare one means you feel exposed and unsure whom to trust.
Ankle
Ankles are a search for support and a question about where you are headed. A sprain is an obstacle in your progress; swelling means the path is wrong, or that you need to stop and rest.
Anus
The anus holds guilt, shame, or a harsh view of your own worth that you will not release. It can also mark stinginess, or a need to loosen a rigid habit.
Arm
Arms show how you care for people and the struggles you carry, while an injury there is helplessness. The right side leans outgoing and the left nurturing; tearing another's is anger you still cannot say.
Armpit
An armpit is the social face you show and the bonds you keep. Odor or hair there can mean a sour situation, a wish to be accepted, or ideals you force on someone else.
B
Back
Your back is stance, strength, and the load you carry, including pressure from someone else. Bare, it hides a secret; turned away from you, it is hurt born of envy.
Blood
The red fluid is life, love, and passion, and also disappointment. Losing it means you are drained, or that old acts have returned; words written in it are effort you refuse to abandon.
Body
Your own form is self-worth, often tied to how you think you look, and the state of your health. A dead one is detachment, or a situation long finished that you should leave.
Bones
What remains after flesh is a family or personal secret, and strength you have not yet named. Broken, a plan has a weakness; the bare form of a matter, or a grievance with someone, may be the point.
Brain
The organ of thought is intellectual strain, or ideas that are not getting the attention you want. An operation on it means an important issue needs a different way of thinking.
Breasts
The chest is nourishment, motherhood, and a need to be cared for, and it can also be sexual energy or a feeling of exposure. Uneven or missing, desire feels unbalanced or you feel undesirable.
Buttocks
The seat of the body is instinct and insecurity about a struggle you are in. Misshapen, a part of you is undeveloped or hurt; someone kissing or smelling it is a person whose intentions are not genuine.
C
Calves
Your calves are movement, the ease of shifting from one situation to the next. Admiring them can point to a bond where you need too much from the other person.
Cheeks
Cheeks are closeness, commitment, and the force of your opinions. Rosy ones are vitality; sunken ones are hardship; a kiss on the cheek is respect or friendship.
Chest
The chest is confidence and vitality, or pressure you need to speak aloud. A storage chest is needs you suppress, or memories you refuse to put down.
E
Ears
Ears mean you should take guidance instead of trusting only your own read. Wax you will not clear means there is something you refuse to hear.
Elbows
An elbow means you need room of your own and hesitate to take it. The image can also mean a task needs harder work.
Entrails
Entrails mean despair. Harming someone else's points to a cruel wish to advance yourself.
See also Intestines.
Eyebrows
Eyebrows show surprise, doubt, or disapproval. Missing ones mean feeling is not getting out, and a single brow can mean insecurity about how you look.
Eyelashes
Noticeable eyelashes mean you are expressing yourself quietly, and they can mean luck. All of them falling means that expression, or a feminine strength, is failing.
Eyes
Your eyes mean understanding, and sometimes a look inward. One eye means you refuse another viewpoint, a third eye means insight you have not used, and injured or closed eyes mean you will not see a truth.
F
Face
Your face is the persona you show, not the whole of you. A cracking or changing face means deception, and washing it means come clean about a matter.
Feet
Feet mean your footing, your independence, and the next step. Washing them can mean people take advantage of you, and smelling someone else's means you are walking their path instead of yours.
Fingernails
Fingernails mean your defenses are up. Long ones can mean idleness, broken ones a wish to dodge a duty, and chewing them a problem you do not know how to handle.
Fingers
Fingers mean skill, action, and what you can grip. Losing them means a situation is running you, a pointing finger means self-blame, and crossed fingers mean hope.
Forehead
A smooth forehead means fair judgment. A wrinkled one means worry, and an injury there means a poor decision you regret.
G
Gall Bladder
The gall bladder asks you to dump bitterness and guilt. You cannot grow while you keep that sourness.
Genitals
Genitals are your attitudes toward sex, pleasure, and what you count as masculine or feminine, including commitment. If they vanish, confidence in that part of life has dropped.
See also Penis and Vagina.
H
Hand
Hands are how you connect with people: help, authority, harm, or care, depending on the gesture. Someone offering you a hand is support arriving.
Head
A head is intellect, self-image, and how you read the world. It can pun on getting ahead, and an attack on the head means a truth you have refused to face.
Heart
The heart is truth, courage, and how you handle feeling. It can also mean get to the core of the matter before you go on.
I
Intestines
Intestines are compassion, and the twists of a life. They can also pun on guts and courage.
J
Jaw
An animal's jaw means a misunderstanding, or a demand that is chewing through your time and energy. Your own jaw is stubborn will; locked or broken, it is anger held in or a principle you have bent.
K
Kidneys
Kidneys point to a need for cleansing, inside the body or in the life around it.
Knee
Knees are the support under you, and how much of it you feel you have. Weakness, pride, and a load past your limit all meet there.
L
Legs
Your legs are confidence enough to stand and steer your life again. Weak, broken, or uneven ones mean you cannot stand up for yourself, or that life is out of balance; extra legs mean too many projects at once.
Lips
Lips are sensuality, romance, and the way you communicate. Blue ones suggest illness or poor circulation; black ones mean you refuse to speak about a situation.
Liver
A liver can warn you to drink less and to have your health looked at. It can also mean someone close does not want your good and is cutting you down.
Lungs
Lungs are insight and a rush of inspiration. They can also be a bond that feels airless, and a need to face it instead of holding still.
M
Mouth
A mouth is the need to speak about what bothers you, or the sense that you have already said too much. Covered, you are being stopped from expressing yourself; unable to open, you are speechless or keeping a secret.
Muscle
Muscle is power, strength, and flexibility you can still build so confidence has something to stand on.
N
Neck
The neck joins thought to the body and shows how hard you hold feeling back. Injury or soreness there splits what you think from what you feel.
Nipples
Nipples point to a young need to be cared for. If they look damaged or stretched, you feel unwanted, or you are giving others more than you keep for yourself.
See also Breasts.
Nose
The nose is drive, intuition, and the will to learn a situation properly. Growth there marks a lie; a blocked nose means you cannot speak freely; blood means your character is under attack.
P
Pelvis
The pelvis raises sexual questions and your sense of what is feminine or masculine in you, including how you create and express.
Penis
A penis stands for sexual energy, power, and fertility; slack, it is frustration. Damage or loss of it is a fear of losing power or identity, not a literal forecast.
R
Rib
Ribs are a shield against heartbreak. In a biblical frame, a rib can stand for a spouse.
S
Shoulders
Shoulders are strength, duty, and the loads you carry. They are also your ability to support other people.
Skeleton
A skeleton is something still unfinished, often a plan that has not left the drawing stage.
Skin
Skin is the cover over your inner self. It can also mean you are staying on the surface.
Skull
A skull is danger or an ending. It can also be intellect and what the mind keeps private.
Stomach
The stomach is the start of a new change, or a situation you can no longer tolerate.
T
Teeth
Rotting teeth often follow words you should not have said. Sparkling ones match wishes that landed.
Testicles
These stand for raw energy, fertility, and nerve. The picture can also be worry about sexual confidence, kept symbolic rather than graphic.
Thigh
The thigh is stamina and your power to act. Admiring it is a daring streak that still needs care in how you behave.
Throat
The throat is how you speak your mind. Soreness means the true sentence will not come out, or that you should swallow pride.
Toe
Toes are how you walk through life, with grace or without, and the small details you handle. Losing one means the drive to move forward is thin.
Toes
Toes show the style of your walk through life and the minor details along it. Growing nails extend your grasp of a matter; a hurt toe is nerves about the next decision.
Tongue
The tongue is what you say. Too long a tongue means you are lying to yourself; a sore one means harsh talk.
V
Vagina
For a woman, this is femininity and her attitude toward sex, or fertility and warmth. Another woman's, as a symbol, is sexual need or a project coming to life.
Vein
A vein can mean you are shielded from slander. Bleeding, as a symbol, foretells deep sorrow.
Veins
Veins are a test of character. Do not take for granted what seems to come easily.
W
Womb
Being inside the womb is a retreat to safety and dependence, away from daily demand. Seeing it is fertility and a new beginning.
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.