What Your Dream Means

Reading dreams is one of the oldest trades there is: long before any consulting room existed, people told what they had seen while asleep and someone told them what it carried. What repeated from one person to the next — teeth falling out, the snake that arrives without a sound, the water rising, the person who died and speaks to you again — ended up forming a catalogue of symbols that is still the same today.

Here you tell your dream in your own words, as you remember it. Those symbols are looked for in it, and what they carry is read against what you told: the same dream does not say the same thing to someone who has it the night before moving house as to someone who has it the day after an argument.

How your dream is read

1. Press Tell my dream and write it while you still remember. It does not need to be tidy: as it comes is fine.
2. The symbols in your account are marked. There may be one, two, or none recognisable.
3. You read the interpretation in its window. It is kept: you can open it again by pressing the dream.
4. You can tell six dreams per session. At the sixth the notebook closes and you start again.

The Dreams That Repeat Most

These five come up again and again, in any country and at any age:

• Dreaming your teeth fall out: something you were holding up is coming loose. It shows up in times of change more than of loss.
• Dreaming of snakes: something moves close to you without showing its face. It is not always a threat; sometimes it is a matter you have not looked at yet.
• Dreaming of someone who has died: a visit that did not come to say goodbye. It is almost never about death, but about what was left unsaid.
• Dreaming of water: what carries you and will not be held. Clean or dirty, still or overflowing, it changes the reading completely.
• Dreaming you are chased: something comes behind and does not stop. What matters is not who chases, but that in the dream you never turn around.

Remembering More of What You Dream

Dreams fade in the first minutes of the day. To bring them back whole: tell them before you look at your phone, start from the last image you remember and work backwards, and write down what you felt even if you do not know what was happening. That feeling weighs most in the reading.