Tonight
What are you
looking for?
A dream to make sense of, or the sky to check. Both are here, and both are explained rather than asserted.
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- HoroscopeDaily, weekly, monthly and yearly — built from computed transits rather than written in advance.
- Dream dictionaryWhat each symbol means, where the belief comes from, and the variants people actually dream.
- Moon phasesNext full and new moon to the minute, blue moons and blood moons — computed, not copied.
- EclipsesSolar and lunar eclipses with their exact type, worked out from the geometry.
- SunEquinoxes and solstices — the exact instant, and why the dates move.
- Chinese zodiacYour animal and element — worked out from the real year boundary, so it is right even if you were born in January.
- Time calculatorHow long between two moments, counting calendar months the way people mean them.
- Random numbersDrawn with a cryptographic source, without the bias most generators leave in.
- Lucky numberYour life path number from your date of birth, with the arithmetic shown.
Start with a dream
- BabySomething new and dependent on you. Read favourably almost everywhere, but the dreams themselves are usually anxious — because what is new is also fragile.
- A basementThe part of the structure that holds what is not looked at. Read with the house entry, where it is the lowest and least visited floor of the self.
- A bearPower that is not hunting you. Unlike the wolf and the lion, a bear is read by proximity alone — it becomes dangerous when approached, not when it decides.
- BeesThe one insect read favourably almost everywhere. Order, work and a system that functions — the sting is present but rarely the point.
- Being chasedThe most common anxiety dream after teeth. What matters is not the pursuer but that you are running — the dream is about avoidance, not danger.
- Being lateMissing something that will not wait. Distinct from the exam dream — you are prepared, and the problem is that time is running out anyway.
- Being lostKnowing where you want to be and not how to get there. Distinct from the chase dream — nothing is pursuing you, and that absence is the whole point.
- Being naked in publicExposure, and the fear of being seen as you are. Among the oldest recorded anxiety dreams — and the detail that matters is whether anyone noticed.
- BirdNews, and the soul. The oldest messenger image there is — and which bird it was changes the reading more than in almost any other dream.
- BloodLife, kinship and what is being spent. Alarming to dream of and read far more often as family and vitality than as injury.
- A boatBeing carried by the thing you are trying to cross. Unlike a bridge, a boat has no independence from the water — and that is the reading.
- BridgeA crossing between two defined states, with the thing you are crossing still underneath. Read by where you are on it, not by whether you reach the far side.
- Broken glassDamage that keeps causing damage. The one image whose harm outlasts the event that caused it, which is why it reads as consequence rather than accident.
- CarControl over your own direction. The dream reads whether you were driving, and whether the car did what you told it — almost nothing else matters.
- CatIndependence, and something that will not be commanded. Read favourably in some traditions and as deceit in others — and the split is older than either.
- ChildNot the same image as a baby. A child is old enough to act, and the dream usually concerns responsibility, protection, or a part of yourself at that age.
- A churchA place built to hold what people cannot hold alone. Read by what the dreamer went there for — belief is the least common answer in reports.
- A clockTime made visible. Read by whether it can be trusted — a clock that runs wrong is reported far more often than one that simply shows the hour.
- ClothesWhat the dreamer is presenting rather than what they are. Read by whether the clothes suit the situation — almost never by whether they are liked.
- CryingFeeling that has found an outlet in sleep that it did not have awake. Read as release rather than as sorrow — including when the dreamer wakes up in tears.
- Dead personDreaming of someone who has died is usually grief working rather than a message. The traditions treat it as visiting; both readings agree it is worth attention.
- DeathAlmost never about dying. Across the traditions that record dreams, death is the image for something ending — and is read as favourable more often than not.
- DogLoyalty, and what guards you. The friendliest common dream animal — and when it turns, the tradition reads it as loyalty betrayed rather than ordinary danger.
- A doorA choice with a threshold. The oldest image for transition — and whether it opens, and which side you are on, carries the whole reading.
- An earthquakeThe ground itself failing. The only common dream image in which the thing that moves is the one thing that is supposed to be fixed.
- ElevatorMovement between levels that you do not control. Distinct from stairs — the effort is removed, and with it the sense of having earned the change.
- Ex-partnerOne of the most common dreams there is, and almost never about wanting them back. What returns is usually the version of yourself you were with them.
- An examBeing assessed, and not being ready. Reported for decades after the last real exam — which is what tells you it is not about school.
- FallingOne of the most common dreams there is, and almost always about control rather than danger — your footing has changed and you have not adjusted yet.
- FightingConflict the dreamer is inside rather than fleeing. Read by whether the blows land — ineffectual fighting is the commonest and most specific form.
- FireTwo opposite meanings depending on whether it is contained. Fire in a hearth is warmth and purpose; fire loose is anger, loss or something out of hand.
- FishSomething below the surface, and whether you can catch it. One of the older fortune images — and in most traditions, fish mean gain.
- FlowersThe one image whose meaning includes its own ending. A cut flower is already dying when it is given, and dreams read them by their condition.
- FlyingOne of the few dreams people wake from happy. Read across traditions as release from something — and the difficulty of staying up matters more than the flying.
- FoodWhat sustains you, and who provides it. Read favourably where there is enough and shared — and the oldest dream image with a direct link to hospitality.
- ForestA place with no marked path and no view out. Corresponds to situations that are navigable but not surveyable — you can move, you just cannot see where you are.
- A funeralThe public part of loss, which is a different thing from the loss. Read by who attended and by what the dreamer was required to do.
- A gardenA place that is neither wild nor built. Read by its condition — a garden is the one dream setting that records how long it has been neglected.
- GoldValue that does not decay, which is why it is read as worth rather than as money. Reports separate sharply on whether the dreamer may keep it.
- A gunHarm at a distance, and harm that cannot be taken back. Everything that separates it from the knife comes from those two properties.
- HairStrength, vanity and what is on show. One of the oldest dream images there is, and the one most tied to how a person believes they are seen.
- HorsePower that is not yours but can be worked with. The oldest image for strength under agreement — and whether it is under control decides everything.
- HospitalHanding yourself over to a process you cannot direct. The setting matters more than the illness — most reports involve no symptoms at all.
- HouseThe most reliably self-referential dream image there is. Across traditions the house is the dreamer — and which room you are in is most of the meaning.
- InsectsMany small irritations rather than one large threat. The count, not the creature, carries the meaning — and it is read as accumulation.
- A keyAccess, and who controls it. Small object with disproportionate weight — losing one is among the more frequently reported anxiety images.
- KissingAgreement more often than desire. Read by who initiates and by whether the dreamer wanted it — reports about attraction are the minority.
- A knifeThe one common dream object that is both tool and weapon. Read by whose hand it is in and by what it was being used for.
- A lionAuthority that does not need to act. Read by distance and by whether it is awake — almost never by whether it attacks.
- LuggageWhat the dreamer is carrying and cannot put down. Read by weight and by whether it is theirs — lost luggage and too much luggage mean opposite things.
- MirrorThe gap between how you see yourself and how you are seen. The oldest reading is a warning — mirrors show truth, and truth is not always welcome.
- MoneyRarely about money. It stands for what you value and what you owe — and finding it is read far less favourably than you would expect.
- MountainDifficulty that is visible from the start. Unlike most obstacles in dreams, a mountain is honest — its size is known before the effort begins.
- A phoneContact that fails. Almost no reports involve a call that works — the image is reached for when something needs saying and cannot be said.
- A planeTransport at a scale no one aboard can influence. Read alongside flying, which it resembles and means the opposite of.
- PoliceRules with the power to enforce them. Read by whether the dreamer feels guilty, which in most reports has nothing to do with having done anything.
- PregnancySomething is developing that is not ready to be shown. Dreamt as often by people who cannot be pregnant, which tells you what the image is really doing.
- A prisonConfinement with a reason attached. The distinguishing question is not how to get out but whether the dreamer believes the sentence is just.
- RainRelief or grief, depending on what it does. The only common weather image read favourably as often as not — and the reading turns on whether it is needed.
- RatsSomething wrong inside the structure rather than outside it. Rats are read as betrayal or decay because of where they live, not because of what they do.
- A ringA promise made visible. The only common dream object whose whole meaning is that other people can see it — which is why losing one is read as exposure.
- SchoolA place with rules the dreamer no longer belongs to and still answers to. Reported overwhelmingly by adults, decades after leaving.
- The seaWhat is larger than you and does not answer to you. Distinct from ordinary water dreams — the sea is read as circumstances beyond anyone's control.
- ShoesPosition and standing rather than direction. What you walk in reads as the role you occupy, which is why losing them is reported as exposure.
- SnakeSnakes in dreams point to something hidden that is about to be revealed — a person, a truth, or a change you have sensed but not yet named.
- SnowSomething covered rather than gone. Read as stillness, concealment and waiting — and in most traditions as a pause rather than a loss.
- SpiderA patient trap, or patient work. Every tradition reads the web rather than the animal — and whether you were caught in it or watching it being built.
- StairsEffort with a direction. The dream reads whether you were going up or down, and whether the stairs behaved — almost every reading follows from those two.
- A stormTrouble that is coming, arriving or passing — and the reading depends entirely on which. A storm is the one image with a built-in timeline.
- SwimmingCoping with what water represents, deliberately and under your own power. The one water image where the dreamer is neither drowning nor above it.
- Teeth falling outThe most commonly reported anxiety dream in the world. It usually marks a fear of losing control over how you are seen — rarely anything to do with your teeth.
- ToiletPrivacy, and what needs to be got rid of. Embarrassing to report and very common — usually about needing space rather than about the body.
- A trainA route you did not choose, on a schedule you do not set. Distinct from the car — you cannot steer, and that limitation is the meaning.
- A treeA single life with its length visible. The one image in the dictionary that contains its own past — and it is read through the part that cannot be seen.
- VomitingForcible rejection of something taken in. Read as expulsion rather than illness — most reports involve no sickness at all.
- WaterWater is the standard dream image for emotion, and its state tells you most of what the dream means — clear or muddy, still or moving, contained or rising.
- WeddingA binding commitment, and rarely about marriage. The traditions read it as a contract entered — and in Balkan folk reading, unfavourably.
- A windowSeeing without entering. The one opening in a house that shows a life and does not admit anyone to it — read by which side the dreamer is on.
- A wolfThreat that arrives with others and knows the ground. Read less as an animal than as a group — which is why a single wolf reads so differently from a pack.
- WormsSlow work underneath — decay in one direction, renewal in the other. The only common dream creature read both ways with equal frequency.