Dream book
Dream symbols read through historical sources
What the public-domain dream books wrote about each motif. The sources contradict each other, and that is deliberate: what stands here is a cultural reading of a symbol, not a diagnosis.
Motifs 206
- Ancestors 9
- Armour 2
- Arrow 16
- Ass 5
- Ball 3
- Banner 11
- Basin 6
- Basket 3
- Bathing 5
- Bear 3
- Beard 6
- Beating 15
- Becoming the other sex 3
- Bed 19
- Bees 7
- Beggar 4
- Bell 7
- Belt 5
- Bird 24
- Blood 19
- Boar 2
- Boat 23
- Body 43
- Bones 4
- Book 6
- Bowl 5
- Box 2
- Brick 4
- Bridge 12
- Broken mirror 3
- Bull 3
- Camel 3
- Candle 5
- Cap 12
- Cards 5
- Cart 18
- Cat 2
- Cattle 20
- Chess 3
- Chicken 5
- Child 8
- City wall 13
- Clothes 42
- Clouds 15
- Coffin 9
- Coins 10
- Combing hair 3
- Crane 7
- Crocodile 2
- Crow 9
- Crowd 3
- Dancing 4
- Death 21
- Deer 5
- Divination 5
- Dog 11
- Dove 4
- Dragon 10
- Drowning 6
- Drum 5
- Ducks 3
- Dust 2
- Ear 3
- Earthquake 6
- Eclipse 8
- Eggs 2
- Elephant 4
- Entrails 4
- Examination 4
- Excrement 21
- Eyebrows 3
- Eyes 9
- Falling 3
- Fight 17
- Fire 32
- Fish 23
- Flood 3
- Flowers 11
- Flute 2
- Flying 9
- Food 20
- Fox 2
- Fruit 31
- Funeral 4
- Garden 5
- Gate 21
- Geese 6
- Ghost 7
- God 29
- Gold 17
- Grain 42
- Granary 4
- Greens 28
- Hair 8
- Hammer 5
- Hare 6
- Hawk 4
- Head 15
- Heaven 16
- Hemp 5
- Honey 3
- Horns 4
- Horse 25
- House 33
- Illness 14
- Image of a god 5
- Incest 2
- Intercourse 7
- Iron 7
- Journey 6
- Joy 6
- Knife 11
- Lamp 3
- Lap 2
- Letter 7
- Lightning 4
- Lion 3
- Lute 2
- Mare 2
- Market 6
- Mat 7
- Meat 19
- Medicine 7
- Mill 2
- Mirror 13
- Monk 10
- Monkey 5
- Mountain 11
- Mourning 2
- Mud 6
- Music 13
- Nakedness 13
- Needle 3
- Net 4
- Nose 4
- Official 20
- Oil 4
- Palace 20
- Pan 5
- Parasol 5
- Parrot 2
- Peacock 4
- Pearls 9
- Pig 7
- Pillow 3
- Ploughing 6
- Pond 5
- Pregnancy 3
- Prison 13
- Quarrel 16
- Rain 5
- Rainbow 3
- Rat 5
- Razor 7
- Ring 9
- River 4
- Road 13
- Rope 7
- Saw 2
- Scales 2
- Sea 5
- Seal 9
- Servant 3
- Shackles 10
- Sheep 9
- Shoes 18
- Silk 19
- Smoke 2
- Snail 2
- Snake 17
- Snow 8
- Soldier 13
- Speech 9
- Spoon 2
- Stars 10
- Stone 11
- Sun and moon 22
- Swallow 5
- Sword 8
- Teeth 17
- Temple 7
- Thief 8
- Thorns 7
- Thunder 4
- Tiger 6
- Toad 2
- Tomb 7
- Tower 5
- Tree 37
- Turtle 6
- Voices 10
- Washing 11
- Water 22
- Weapon 4
- Wedding 11
- Weeping 6
- Well 21
- Wheel 2
- White clothes 8
- Wild beasts 8
- Wind 7
- Wine 16
- Wolf 6
- Woman 10
- Worms and insects 22
- Writing 8