Easy for dreams, there is the fact that not everything will be there but after that everything else is helpful

A lot of the same keywords used over and over and not enough explanation.

I got this for Christmas and really enjoyed this!!! I love interpreting dreams and kept a dream journal when I was little - this made me super happy :)

I actually have the First Fireside Edition 1992. The cover is different.

This is read according to need book. Sometimes it's helpful. Sometimes it's not. I don't always feel that the interpretations are accurate. Or should i say, accurate for me?

"Dreams either mean nothing or everything..." Thus spake Roland Deschain in Wizard and Glass which means this book is total bullshit. I think I've had two or three "everything" dreams in my life where a dream accurately predicted events that happened the next day. I had a dream that my old roommate had had some kind of falling out with his new roommate and that they were going their separate ways. I called the old roomie to tell him about it, laughing all the while at how ridiculous it was. Turns out he was packing up to move out as we spoke because that was kind of what happened. Both of them were friends, and there had been nothing at all to indicate that something like that was on the horizon. Super coincidence, or was I getting a message from another level of the tower? Hell if I know. Roland also tells us that "not all messages are sent by friends," so I had better proceed with caution.

I got this book for fun about 20 years ago, and I confess I did enjoy looking at it from time to time to see what someone else thought my dreams meant, but the novelty wore off after a while. Also, it was usually wrong. I would try to shoehorn the interpretations into my day, and since one often finds what one is looking for, I was able to do just that if I tried really hard, but I couldn't always manage it.

Take the "Toys" entry on for size.

"To see toys in dreams foretells family joys, if whole and new, but if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow.
To see children at play with toys, marriage of a happy nature is indicated.
To give away toys in your dreams foretells you will be ignored in a social way by your acquaintances."

But what if you dream about swinging into a castle with Robin Hood to rescue a couple of kids you babysit from Beastman... and maybe Merman? (Masters of the Universe characters. And give me a break; I had this dream probably 25 years ago, and can't for the life of me explain why I'm remembering it now.) Anyway, you get into the castle, find the boys in the dungeon but find they're being treated just fine... No wait, it wasn't Merman, it was Trap Jaw... Anyway, the boys are fine, enjoying their repast and ask if they can stay a little longer, then you go into another room where there's a dresser with a mirror which you look in, then see a princess come in behind you, so you turn around to talk to her, and she draws nearer to you because she's kind of flirting with you, then as she leans her face towards yours you feel something touching your stomach, look down and see a claw protruding from her dress, caressing your abdomen and getting ready to rip it open with a swipe, so you step back in alarm, then the bottom of the dress opens up and you discover that it's not a princess at all, but a monster crouching down and operating some kind of reverse marionette which is the top half of the princess, then the monster chucks the puppet aside, stands up, and runs toward you, but you pull a sword off the dresser, and cut the monster in twain, then into fourths, and you hack and hack and hack it to pieces, but the pieces reform into smaller Masters of the Universe toys which keep coming after you, and the more you hack, the more MOTU toys you make, and they come on and on and on, then... I don't remember what happened next. I might've woken up then, though I thought I got out of the castle some kind of way. Like I said, this was probably 25 years ago, and sometimes I can't remember dreams upon awakening even though I remember that I had one and will rack my brain trying to figure out what it was.

Anyway, just what the tiddly-poo am I supposed to make of that? I guess it counts as broken toys, but death did not "rend my heart with sorrow" anywhere near that time. How could it? Nobody I knew died. Maybe it was the castle that was important? Let's see. "To dream of being in a castle, you will be possessed of sufficient wealth to make life as you wish..." HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Lies, book. Lies!

Maybe "Dungeon?" "To dream of being in a dungeon foretells for you struggles with the vital affairs of life but by wise dealings you will disenthrall yourself of obstacles and the designs of enemies." Hmmm. No, I don't recall disenthralling myself of anything back then.

Perhaps "Mirror." "To see others in a mirror denotes that others will act unfairly towards you to promote their own interests." Well, shit. That happens all the time. Maybe that was it, but I don't know... I'm not convinced.

There are four entries for "sword," but none of them apply since I wasn't wearing it, didn't have it taken from me, see others bearing one, and the sword wasn't broken.

And there's no entry for Robin Hood or Masters of the Universe if you can believe that. Worthless book!

You know, I used to have dreams all the time, and that one was actually kind of ordinary compared to some others. I kind of miss my dreams. I still have them, but they're few and far between now, maybe one every few weeks, and they're not always as exciting as that one anymore. Alas.

Obviously can’t say how accurate the book is but it is still an interesting book to have/read.

My first ever dream interpretation book. I bought this book when i was barely a teenager because i thought it would be fun to find out what my dreams actually meant. Unfortunately, this book gives short definitions to every word and it seems like every definition i've came across was always something negative. It seems written very "horoscope-like".

The only good thing that came from this book is that it pushed me forward into believing that dreams do have meanings. It has helped me fine-tuned my thoughts on what my dreams actually meant and has even given me advice on how to go about my waking life.

This could be an OK starter book for dream interpretation but there are far better books out there that have more details for each word and is not so negative.

This book, and every book like it, is epic bunk. dreams cannot be interpreted this way because people create their own symbols unintentionally. the only way a book like this could be correct is if the readers subconscious assimilated the information and applied it. which is possible but 1. unlikely and 2. makes the content a self fulfilling prophecy which is of little personal use.

This is an excellent encyclopedia of symbolism. Appreciating an author's understanding of the entire dreamscape is a productive creative exercise, much to many an idealist's chagrin.

Pretty cool. Interesting.

A wonderful reference for symbolism in dreams, it references a variety of cultures and religions, along with their symbolic meanings for images and vivid dreams. Definitely worth a read, even if you’re not into the metaphysical or believe in symbolism.

This reference book is ok. I found a lot of the symbolism was based a lot in psychology and not so much in mythological symbolism. It is also lacking a lot of things that dreams contain and I often find that what's in my dreams, I can't find in here. I definitely think there are better dream interpretation books out there