Nancy Wagaman - The curious dreamers dream dictionary: how to interpret dream symbol meaning for personal growth

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ISBN: 978-0-9985459-3-6 (print)

ISBN: 978-0-9985459-2-9 (ebook)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018913242

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To the open-eyed and open-hearted

explorer within each of us.

About This Book

This dream dictionary is a companion to The Curious Dreamers Practical Guide to Dream Interpretation , a dream-coach-in-a-book that shows step-by-step how to understand dreams and unlock their transformative power. This second book in the series continues the same focus on personal growth by presenting more than 1500 symbol descriptions to inspire your dream exploration and personal transformation process.

You can use this book as a stand-alone resource or to enhance the framework presented in The Curious Dreamers Practical Guide to Dream Interpretation. For the most robust dream interpretation experience, I recommend using the two books together.

Because dream symbol meaning is personal to each dreamer, no dream dictionary can provide a single meaning of a dream symbol thats always true for every dreamer and every dream. Therefore, the symbol descriptions in this book are intended as a source of possible ideas about meanings, designed to enrich your own search for meaning. Each description provides suggestions intended to trigger your subconscious mind to confirm what it already knows about the symbols meaning and what it says about you or your life.

This book contains three main parts followed by an index of symbols:

Knowledge and tips about dream symbolism and interpretation to jumpstart your interpretation process and help you make the most of the dream symbol descriptions in this book.

Common categories of dream symbols, and how each category can provide more clues to symbol meaning because all of its symbols can be interpreted in a similar way.

More than 1500 dream symbol descriptions arranged alphabetically, each including possible meanings to assist in your exploration of meaning and to support your personal growth process.

A comprehensive list of the dream symbols in this book, including additional names by which the symbols are known.

I suggest you begin by reading . Use the index to quickly locate individual symbols, including by their alternative names.

This books casual, conversational style is intended to make it easy to read and understand.

For the purposes of this book, real life refers to a persons waking lifealthough what happens in the dream state is technically also part of real life, in that its one aspect of the dreamers personal experience.

When this book discusses what a dream symbol might represent in real life or in your life, this refers to anywhere in your current or past life (in any area such as home life, work life, relationships, etc.) or in your consciousness (in your mind, emotions, etc.).

In ).

The dream symbol descriptions are listed in alphabetical order in . Each symbol entry includes a description of possible meanings separated with periods. Any specific variations are then noted in bold, followed by a See also list. The format is shown in the following example:

Hand

A person, humanness, or humanity in general. The ability to get things done, being handy, or handling things. The idea of holding on or letting go (physically, emotionally, or mentally). A hand coming toward you with ill intent could represent a feeling or fear of persecution, hostility, aggression, criticism, or being taken advantage of by someone or by people in general. Holding hands or other positive interaction with hands can represent good will or affection you feel toward someone, or that you believe someone feels toward you, or that you desire. Consider the context, whose hand it was, and what it was doing. See also:

PART I

HOW TO FIND DREAM SYMBOL MEANING

Decoding Dream Symbols

In This Chapter:

The moment you wake up from a dream, you already know what it means. The answers lie deep within your consciousness where the dream and its symbolism were created, right where you left them when you woke up. The essence of the dreamers quest is to coax those secrets out into the light of day to reveal dream meaning. This book shows you how to delve into those subconscious depths and retrieve that dream symbol treasure.

Dream interpretation provides powerful knowledge about yourself that you might not discover otherwise, if you can understand the language of dream symbols. Encoded within dream symbolism you can find clues to what makes you tick, answers that point you toward your ideal life, and insights to help you resolve past issues and move through the challenges ahead. In fact, dream symbolism is so potent that sometimes translating just one dream symbol can unlock the meaning of an entire life-transforming dream. This book teaches you how to translate dream symbol meaning and use it as the key to unlock the power of your dreams.

The practical goal of dream interpretation, as I see it, is to find the value in each dream so you can then apply it to improve yourself and your life. A dreams value may be profound and life changing, or as simple as the realization that eating sweets too close to bedtime can trigger nightmares. Whatever the content of a dream, you can learn from it. So as you explore your dreams, keep the following objective in mind:

Find the value in your dreams.