This is a pretty comprehensive book on dream meanings. I find the element’s encyclopedias to be incredibly useful in my practice.

Like many of these books it sparks some interesting conversations and is a great gift idea.

I've been doing dreamwork for about 30 years now with secondary students and adults and have consulted many dream dictionaries in the process. Teresa Cheung's book has become an invaluable resource, my go to book when I'm looking up something related to dreams. What makes this book start out from most dream dictionaries is that it's really an encyclopedia as the name suggests. Many standard dictionaries have limited references so often the symbol you're looking for isn't there. At 678 pages there will be very few dream symbols you won't find in this book. The second reason I love this book is that it gives quite a detailed description for every symbol. The information really gets you thinking and probing. If you could only afford one book to help you unlock the meaning of your dreams, this is the book I would suggest.

Another gift from my mother. A great investment and quite interesting!

Fantastic resource, amazingly accurate!

Well what can I say about this book? Brilliant is the first thing to come to mind, however, there is a "key" (I believe) to getting the most out of it. In fact it is quite startling at first! Now the key is really quite simple, you must read the book (as a book) from cover to cover and even if you come to a section which you don't find all that interesting, persist! It is well worth the effort to absorb all it has to tell you. Why is it important to read it all? Simple, you're feeding your subconscious! As you will learn from the book our dreams send messages with images and if we can understand these images then we can understand what the dreams are telling us. So feed your mind the images and their meanings, because it will change your dream life forever.

What I found was by persisting from page one right through to the very end I gave my subconscious new ammunition for my dreams. Almost right away my dreams changed? They started to talk to me is such a clear way I was able to understand all my dreams and it was spot on! What happened? Well I started to have dreams with the new understandings and instead of me trying to work out what was being sent I knew! I could quickly grab the book and go back to the part I had read and there is was, it was an amazing experience. But it is always getting better and clearer. Now I can wake up and start to understand what was going on and why.

A few other things must happen first however, you must train yourself to remember your dreams using the techniques outlined in the start of the book. Write everything down (as much as you can remember) and think carefully about ALL the possibilities. Once you start to master this it all falls together and it is amazing.

So my advice is get the book, read it from start to finish, learn the techniques and start to communicate with your dreams like you never have before! The rating would have to be 10 out of 10, persist and you will be rewarded, I was. There are lots of "Dream Bibles" and other such books out there, but this one is the Rolls Royce and in my opinion the best one to own if you want only one!

This book took me a very long time to read, and yes I did read the entire thing.

This contains plenty of interpretations, but it is a bit confusing the way they are distributed throughout different chapters into subcategories. It would have been more efficient if they had maintained the standard encyclopedia or dictionary format.