dream books
Nocturnal symbol dictionaries
Dream books are guides that interpret the symbolic meaning of dreams, listing objects, animals, or scenarios and what they supposedly signify.
They range from folk traditions to pop psychology paperbacks: She looked up snakes in her dream book.
Some dream books also assign lucky numbers to dream symbols for use in gambling.
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- hidden meaningsImplicit messages beneath surface
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- nightmaresTerrifying sleep experiences
- night visionsImagery during sleep
visions · sleep · sleep cycle · subconscious · wish fulfillment · prophecy · omens · Freud · Jung · analysis · meanings · fortune · lucky numbers · almanac · oracle · old wives · mystical · slumber
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- dream loreJacob's ladder, nightmares, night visions, prophetic visions, symbolic meanings
- chapbookschapbooks, cheap print, broadsides, broadside, broadsheets
- occult textsgrimoires, grimoire, Kabbalah, Necronomicon, Sefer Yetzirah
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- papyripapyri, papyrus scrolls