| In Your Dreams is the updated, revised, and expanded edition of Mary Summer Rain's Guide to Dream Symbols. This quick reference guide is essential for anyone exploring the power of dreams for personal transformation. Featuring more than 20,000 dream symbols—from Aardvark to Zucchini—this guide distills the essence of our night dreams into concise definitions that reveal the spirit in even the most mundane of images. Mary Summer Rain is the author of more than 20 visionary books, with combined sales totaling more than one million copies.
It is a book to keep beside the bed, and refer to after waking from the dreams that occur every night of our lives. In Your Dreams: The Ultimate Dream Dictionary is the updated, revised, and expanded edition of Mary Summer Rain's Guide to Dream Symbols. It's a powerful interpretive tool to help us in our own transformative journeys. Now your journey to transformation can be as simple as falling asleep.
PREFACE
Throughout the decade since I wrote my first dream dictionary, readership feedback has been eye-opening. Not only was the volume eagerly received, readers cried for more. They asked for a larger dream guide which included their own list of words that I had overlooked. And, as the years passed, the list of words people wanted interpretations for grew longer. Clearly, these lists proved that every single thing we encounter, see, experience, touch, or have even a rudimentary knowledge of can become critical elements appearing in dreams. No object, obviously, is too outlandish, rare, or ridiculous to include. "I dreamed of the Tinman in the Wizard of Oz," one correspondent wrote. "What does the Tinman mean?" Therefore, dream interpretation books should fully embrace as many elements of our world as possible. Otherwise, the reference volume remains incomplete and falls short of adequately providing the questing dreamer with the required tools for arriving at insightful interpretations.
A well-rounded interpretation can't be gained if key pieces are missing from the puzzle. And some of a dream's most revealing elements are depicted on the smallest puzzle fragment. Every piece holds a clue. Every symbolic piece plays an integral part in serving the whole message. Every piece, no matter how small or insignificant it may initially appear, is in the dream for a purpose and requires our attention. Every piece refines the clarity of the dream's overall message.
Keeping the above facts in mind, and realizing that our world's vocabulary has grown by leaps and bounds with the technology explosion and other contributing factors such as recently popularized slang, I've included these new terms for the purpose of providing a more comprehensive volume of dream symbols. This, then, is a completely new volume which embraces a current view of our daily realm of experience. This, then, is warmly offered as a helpful tool for gleaning optimum insights found nowhere other than . . . in your dreams.
(A Peak at Chapter One...The A's)
A
AARDVARK represents a tendency to hide from problems. Escapism. Denial.
ABACUS denotes a need to refigure an old situation or condition. A change in perspective may be indicated.
ABALONE symbolizes inherent beauty and value of spiritual gifts, talents, or knowledge.
ABANDON connotes that which has been left unattended or shed.
ABANDONMENT (of property) pertains to a giving up of one?s interest in something.
ABBESS represents spiritual grace in leadership.
ABBEY symbolizes a need to regain one?s spiritual sacredness toward beliefs.
ABBOT See abbess.
ABBREVIATIONS represent a need to cut short certain aspects in life. May come as an advisement to focus on the main issue instead of the smaller details that are inconsequential.
ABDICATE denotes a need to finally leave something alone. Or admit it?s time to let another take over the reins of a situation.
ABDOMEN means to take heed of one?s inner prompting.
ABDUCTEE (alien) denotes a feeling of helplessness. A situation one has no control over. May refer to a situation in which one is in over one?s head, meaning one doesn?t have the knowledge base or experience to deal with a situation.
ABDUCTION denotes the taking of something without the right of ownership. A type of takeover. Could also mean a manipulative or domineering nature.
ABERRATION See abnormality.
ABEYANCE indicates a need to keep one?s distance.
ABHOR means a hidden aversion or a need to face a fear.
ABIDANCE (compliance) represents a warning to follow the letter and spirit of the law.
ABIDING (enduring) connotes a lasting situation. May be advising a greater level of acceptance.
ABILITIES See talents.
ABJURE See forswear.
ABNORMALITY represents a diversion from the norm. Not necessarily a negative symbol.
ABODE See house.
ABOLISH denotes a warning to get rid of something in one?s life. May refer to an attitude, perspective, or relationship.
ABOLITIONIST will characterize a compassionate individual; empathy; one who abhors mistreatment of others and expends energy to prevent/stop it.
ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN represents spiritual concepts that are not readily accepted.
ABORIGINE means a back-to-basics simplicity is required. May indicate extraneous or inconsequential issues that are being given too much time or energy.
ABORTION symbolizes a voluntary separation from something; a conscious choice to distance oneself. This dreamscape symbol is rarely literal.
ABORTIONIST denotes one who instigates some type of separation; one who stops the progression of a new idea/plan/ beginning.
ABOUT-FACE represents a sudden change in perspective, behavior, or attitude.
ABOVE (direction) means a higher level.
ABOVEBOARD means following the law or rules; honesty.
ABOVE GROUND represents conventional standards in society.
ABRACADABRA See charm.
ABRASIONS (skin) mean aspects causing friction in life. Could refer to an element causing surface irritations and may signify a caution not to make a bigger issue of them.
ABRIDGE symbolizes a need to curtail or shorten something. May also be pointing to one?s habit of cluttering the issue with minor, insignificant details.
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