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 emotion in the dream is usually the emotion itself. Fear, anger, shame, and joy arrive plain when the day would not let them speak.
A
Abhorrence
Loathing someone matches a resentment you already carry while awake. If others recoil from you, your opinions may be landing badly.
Afraid
See also Scared.
Aggression
Aggression you show is desire held down, and a conflict already present in the day.
Amorous
Feeling amorous is temptation, and private appetite may pull you into scandal. Other people, or animals, in that mood can lure you toward desires that will not satisfy.
Anger
Anger you hold or show is disappointment in yourself, often pushed onto other people. The dream can carry a feeling you would not say while awake.
Animosity
Hostility aimed at you means a situation, and your own sense of right, needs another look.
Annoyed
Being annoyed means rivals are working against you.
Anxiety
Anxiety in the dream mirrors strain you carry by day, including feeling you have not said and duties you have piled on.
B
Betrayal
Being betrayed names suspicion about a person or a commitment, often while you already feel insecure. It can also be feeling sorry for yourself.
C
D
Delight
Delight means a welcome turn is ahead.
Depression
Depression in sleep often continues a low mood from the day, and it shows trouble connecting a choice with its result. Notice what pulls the mood down.
Despair
Despair reflects hardship you expect to meet. Other people in despair may need your help, and the word can also hint at a spare plan held in reserve.
Devotion
Showing devotion to what you believe reminds you that deceit will not get you anything worth keeping.
Disapproval
Disapproval means you are pushing away some part of yourself, or measuring your worth by whether you are accepted.
Distress
Distress matches worry that will likely turn out milder than it feels. The image can be asking you to ease up.
E
Embarrassment
Embarrassment reveals a hidden weakness and thin confidence. Sexual unease may sit underneath.
Emotionless
Feeling nothing means you have closed yourself off and are neglecting your own reactions.
Emotions
Feelings in sleep let you try what you hold back while awake. Mixed, opposing feelings mean the waking mind and the deeper one are in conflict.
Envy
Envying others carries a waking feeling into sleep. Being envied means you think well of yourself and expect respect.
F
Fear
Fear means achievements may fall short of what you hoped, and that unnamed worries need to be spoken. Your worst fear coming true means you are resisting change.
See also Scared.
Frustration
Frustration means a daily situation is hard to handle and life is not heading where you want.
G
Guilt
Guilt here is how you carry success and failure: feeling you do not deserve the win, or that you have let people down. It can also be a sour judgment you keep against yourself.
H
J
L
Lazy
Feeling lazy means you are drained and need a pause. Other people being lazy is resentment that you carry the work alone.
Love
Love here is strong feeling carried from a waking bond, and contentment with where you are. It can also be the lack of love, and the wish to belong; saying it and hearing nothing back means the bond feels uneven.
M
Malice
Malice toward others continues a waking bitterness you have been holding down.
Melancholy
Melancholy is disappointment, and the reminder that you cannot win every time. In someone else, it is distance: you cannot connect.
Merry
Feeling merry echoes waking happiness, or it compensates for sadness you are papering over. The word can also pun on marriage.
Morose
Morose is a pessimistic view, a habit of finding what is wrong. It can also be unpleasant company.
Mortification
Mortification over your own conduct means an embarrassing scene is likely in front of people whose good opinion you want.
N
P
Pain
Pain means the judgment you turn on yourself is harsher than the facts, especially where you had no control. It can also echo a real ache in the body, so notice where it sits.
Panic
Panic is a loss of control and the sense that you cannot decide. Slow down.
Paranoia
Paranoia is hesitation: fear and suspicion so strong you will not take the next step.
Peace
Peace is a conflict inside you coming to rest, a pause before a new effort, and a steadier calm. The quiet can also be the hush before trouble.
Pride
Pride means you will have to defend your integrity when it is attacked. Other people's pride means a cause that needs your support.
R
S
T
Temptation
A temptation is the pull between what you want now and a longer aim. You are weighing a real choice.
Terror
Terror is a fear or a doubt you still have not faced.
Tipsy
A light buzz is a carefree mood, or a hint that stiffness is blocking creativity. Seeing someone else tipsy means choose companions carefully.
W
Warmth
Felt warmth is contentment in what you have done, plus hope and love without conditions.
Y
Yearn
Longing shows a gap in waking life, a habit or a need you deny yourself. What you long for is what wants filling.