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.
A car is your drive. The road, the brakes, and who is steering show how you are moving toward what you want.
A
Accelerator
The pedal says your own effort will carry the goal, or that you should ease off. Jammed, it means hurry has cost you control.
Accident
A crash holds guilt you have turned on yourself, or a mistake that needs a different route. A wreck on the road asks whether you are pushing past a safe pace.
Air Conditioner
A unit that fails means you cannot settle or breathe easy because worry is loud. When it works, a heated argument has cooled.
Airbag
A bag that bursts warns that this pace will hit a serious setback, so slow down. It can also be the people who hold you up when you need them.
Antifreeze
Antifreeze means you have gone emotionally cold and need to warm toward other people.
Axle
An axle says keep your attention on what matters most. Broken, it is lost confidence and trouble steering through life, along with a feeling of being exposed.
B
Backseat
The rear seat means other people are steering your life. Someone else sitting there means their fate is in your hands.
Blinkers
The signal lamps seek approval. If they fail, you hesitate about the direction already chosen.
Booster Cables
Cables between batteries say get a start on goals that have been sitting idle.
Brakes
Pressing the pedal that slows you says ease off in work or in private life, or take a real pause. If they fail, stability is gone and this is a poor time for risks.
Bumper
Damage to the car's guard is the small jolts life will bring. The road will not always be smooth.
Bumper Sticker
The sticker is a message you want the world to hear. Read the exact words.
C
Cadillac
A Cadillac is ambition with a long reach. The drive to succeed is what carries you forward.
Car
A car is how you steer from one stage of life to the next: driving means you are in charge, and the passenger seat means someone else is. A car that will not start, is stolen, or overheats points to lost power, a shaken identity, or effort pushed too far.
Car Alarm
A car alarm says the route you are on is wrong. Change direction.
Car Battery
A car battery is stamina. A dead one means you are overworked and need rest before you give out.
Car Dealership
A car dealership is a decision about where your life should go next.
Car Seat
An infant seat means you are guiding someone else's path, or that your own important journey is only just beginning.
Car Show
A car show is attraction to a flashy life that may not be yours. Showing your own car there is pride, and a wish to be recognized.
Carburetor
A carburetor is balance across feeling, body, and spirit.
Carjack
A carjacking is a life that has been yanked onto a road you did not choose.
Carwash
A carwash is a cleanup of how you see yourself, the moment a new beginning feels possible.
Crash
A car crash is beliefs or goals colliding with someone else's, or a shocking hurt; it can also mirror careless driving. A plane crash is aims set too high, and doubt that you can reach them.
Crash Test Dummy
A crash test dummy is the impact other people are having on your life.
D
Dead End
A dead end means this route toward your goal has stopped working. The same image can name a job or a relationship that is going nowhere.
Driver's License
A driver's license means questions about who you are. Losing it means you have lost direction, or lost the freedom to move toward your own aims.
Driving
Driving shows how you move through life. A road you cannot see means you lack a direction, and someone else at the wheel means you are following their aims instead of yours.
Driving Test
A driving test puts your aims on trial. Failing means you lack the tools or the confidence, and passing means both are in place.
E
Engine
An engine is the power at your center. One that will not start means an obstacle, a ruined one means betrayal or old habits in the way, and one on fire means heartbreak or fierce passion for a goal.
F
G
Gear
Putting the car in gear means you are ready to start a project and head a new way. Gears themselves mean you need other people; you cannot do the whole job alone.
H
Hubcaps
A hubcap is repetition, a life that has gone monotonous. One falling off means you are ready for a break in that pattern.
Hummer
A Hummer suggests little regard for other people and a larger-than-life sense of entitlement. It can also say stop spending resources you do not need to spend, and it may carry a sexual joke.
I
Ignition
Turning the ignition means you are set to move toward an aim. Trouble starting it means you cannot find how to begin, or that something in your life needs a spark.
L
Lamborghini
A Lamborghini means you are moving too fast and too hard in some part of life.
M
O
Odometer
An odometer measures how far you have come, or how little. It may be asking you to set smaller milestones; the digits on it can matter.
P
Parking Attendant
A parking attendant means you spend your direction on other people's goals and lack one of your own.
Parking Lot
A parking lot says slow down and leave the schedule for a while. No open space means you have not found your place; it can also mirror a life that is simply too full.
Parking Meter
A parking meter means carefree time is running out and a goal needs choosing. It can also warn that your manner is about to offend someone.
Parking Structure
A parking structure is going in circles, unsure what you want. A missing car means you have lost part of yourself on the way to the goal.
Parking Ticket
A parking ticket is feeling lost about your direction, and judged for the path you want. It can also match real setbacks and thin accomplishments.
Pothole
A pothole is a setback on the way to a goal, and a sign that the approach needs changing. Things are not running smoothly.
Potholes
Potholes are repeated setbacks, and a rough stretch that will not smooth out until you change how you pursue the goal.
R
Race Car
A race car is a stubborn competitive drive and a pace that may be hard on your health. It can also poke at questions of ethnicity.
Racetrack
A racetrack is life at high speed, or the same loop of thinking you will not leave.
Radiator
A car radiator says the work has overheated you and you need to cool down.
Rear Ended
Being rear-ended means something from earlier is still hitting your present. You move ahead by learning from it.
Rearview Mirror
The rearview mirror is time spent on old hurts and what-ifs. Keep the past in sight without living only there.
Road Rage
Road rage is emotion out of control and the certainty that someone is against you. The feeling needs a safer outlet than an attack.
Road Signs
A road sign is advice from your own mind. Read what it says and apply it to a real decision.
See also Stop Sign or U-Turn.
Road Trip
A road trip is the journey made of your choices. An easy trip is a smooth change of stage; a chaotic one matches waking obstacles. Notice the stops and where you are headed.
Roadblock
A roadblock is a setback in work or private life. Staying with it is what gets you around the barrier.
Roadkill
Roadkill is an ending you cannot dodge, often a habit or an idea that has to be laid down. An animal about to be hit is some part of life slipping out of your hands.
S
Seatbelt
A seatbelt says get a hold of your emotions and do not come apart when things shake.
Speed Bump
A speed bump says slow down. A relationship or some other part of life may be moving too fast.
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.
Speedometer
A speedometer is the pace of your life, whether rushed or crawling.
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.
Station Wagon
A station wagon is family and the inner circle, and hesitation about the direction you have chosen.
Steering Wheel
A steering wheel is control over the direction your life is taking.
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.
Street
A street is the path of your life. The name on it may be part of the advice.
See also Road.
T
Toll Booth
A booth is a sense that you are owed access. Paying shows gratitude for what you have; driving through unpaid is defiance.
Toll Road
A toll road is the price of getting ahead. Nothing here is a free ride.
Tow Truck
A tow truck is burden, or a place where you need someone to get you moving again. Driving one means other people depend on you too much.
Traffic
Sitting in traffic is frustration: life is not moving. Watching it is the daily rush you have started to follow without thinking.
Traffic Cone
Cones say slow down. Delays are real, and you may need another approach.
Traffic Light
A signal means someone else is holding your progress, or the pressure to succeed before you are left behind. Green is permission for the path you chose.
Transmission
Repairing a gearbox means pace yourself. The speed is too high, or you are failing to keep up.
Turn Signal Light
Using the blinker means you want approval for a direction. If it fails, you hesitate about the choice you already made.
U
U-Turn
Turning the car around means you are changing the course of your life. It can also mean a choice was wrong.
V
Valet
Parking cars for others means you lack your own direction and keep serving their goals. Handing over your own car means other people steer your route.