Uncover the deep-buried mysteries contained within the unconscious. With this updated, expanded, and beautifully-illustrated edition of a ground breaking work in allegorical dream interpretation--first published nearly a century ago--you can identify the unique meanings of the visual symbols in your dreams. Understand your hidden thoughts, fears and desires. Find out what your dreams predict for your future, and how they can affect everyday life. Arranged by category, the concise entries and extensive cross-referencing enable you to look up thousands of dream elements, including animals, weather, people and places, illness, deaths, births, sports, toys, buildings, methods of transportation, magical creatures, religious imagery, clothes and jewelry, behaviors, business and industry, furnishings, emotions, and more. The author's original introduction offers information on dream theory and the rationale behind his method of analysis.
it was cool to understand a few things about my dreams and I was very shocked when somethings actually turned out the way it was described. It's an entertaining read.
I like to read dream dictionaries so I really liked this book. It has some old-fashioned interpretations, but that is why I like this book. I collect dream dictionaries, so if you do this one is a must have. I also love all the dream quotes from the Bible.
"And it shall come to pass in the last days," saith God, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams." -- Acts 2:17
I have had this book for years and have dipped into every now and then when a particularly vivid aspect of a dream has stuck with me. It has only just occurred to me, however, that there is a slightly negative slant to almost every symbol - surely I cannot be so utterly doomed as the interpretations offered here would suggest!
People come to me with their dreams, asking for interpretation. Sometimes I'm asked what my references are for dream interpretation and I admit that they are internal—intuition and insight into the analogies of the subconscious. Occasionally I come across a book on dream interpretation, like this one, and I'm reminded why I don't use them. Firstly, no book knows what's going on in any given dreamer's awake life, hence the dictionary definitions of what a dream's various elements might mean is likely to be off. Secondly, many of these books have a tendency to try and predict the future, saying things like, "You'll be successful in sex/love/business/etc." and no dream can tell you that for certain; rather, dreams take components of our waking lives and rearrange them in ways to show us different perspective on our pasts, our presents, and our possible (but not definitive) futures. Thirdly, these books are laced with sexist and racist crap, making gross generalizations based on gender and negative associations based on race (just look at the entry for "Lips" and you'll get the idea). So next time you've got a dream that needs interpreting, put aside your books and just talk to someone.