How the dream entries work
Each entry covers one dream symbol as a family rather than a single scene: a snake dream is read differently when the snake bites, hides, sheds its skin or simply watches you, so the entry walks through the common scenarios one by one. For every scenario you get three things — the traditional reading found in the old dream books and folklore, the psychological reading that modern dream researchers and therapists tend to offer, and a short set of questions to ask yourself about the dream's context. The feeling you had inside the dream is treated as the most reliable clue of all.
What we do not do
We do not tell you that a dream predicts an event or that a symbol is "a bad sign". Dream lore is a tradition of interpretation, not a science, and the entries say so. Where the classical sources contradict each other — and they often do — the entry shows the disagreement instead of hiding it.
Finding your dream
Use the dream dictionary search to look up a symbol, an animal, a place or a feeling across every entry, or browse the entries below. If the exact detail you remember is missing, start from the broader symbol: most entries cover the variations inside them.