Dream meanings

A sleeping woman seen from behind in a cozy bed under a window, soft clouds and a crescent moon drifting into the room, soft watercolour illustration

Teeth falling out. A snake in a room you know well. Someone who died, sitting at the kitchen table as though nothing had happened, and you wake with your chest aching and the whole day tilted.

Dreams like these send people to a search box before they have had coffee, and most of the internet answers with a list. We would rather ask a better question, because a dream is not a message with instructions in it; it is your own mind, off duty, working on something that was already there.

Each page gives you the common readings, the honest psychology, and the details that change the meaning, and then hands it back to you: what was happening in your life the week you dreamed it, and one small thing you could do about that today.

Every dream we have written about