Dreams Starting With A

Encountering an abbey in your dreams suggests a search for inner peace and a desire to break old habits. An abbey, a complex of buildings used by religious orders, is a metaphor for seeking spiritual guidance. Walking away from an abbey may indicate feelings of spiritual desertion and a need to regain hope.

Abdomen

Seeing an abdomen in your dream represents your gut instinct about a situation. This intriguing dream symbol signifies your intuitive human instincts in waking life, possibly linked to your body’s energy centers. If the abdomen is exposed, it might suggest you’re revealing too much about yourself, leaving you feeling vulnerable.

Abduction

Does being taken against your will resonate with you? Seeing loved ones being abducted may reflect fears of external forces taking them away, leaving you feeling powerless. If you’re abducting someone, it suggests controlling aspects of yourself.

Abnormal

Noticing something abnormal in your dream suggests overcoming a long-standing issue. An abnormal baby might represent your inner child needing development or relate to new growth occurring.

Aborigine

Seeing an Aborigine or native tribe member in your dream represents your spiritual side. You may identify with this figure and seek inner peace, perhaps needing to ground yourself.

Abortion

Dreaming of having an abortion signifies self-sabotage, preventing you from moving forward. It might relate to an “aborted” plan or idea. If you’ve had an abortion and feel guilt, these dreams may persist until you find resolution.

Above

Noticing objects above you in dreams signifies your aspirations. You might feel your goals are currently out of reach. Being above water is positive, indicating emotional control. Floating above clouds reflects feeling ungrounded or excessively elated. Dreaming of being above your bed is often linked to out-of-body experiences.

Abroad

Being abroad in your dream signifies unfamiliar territory in life. It might relate to exploring unconscious aspects of yourself or new experiences. Feeling lost may be a metaphor for navigating life changes. The country and people in your dream provide clues.

Abscess

Abscesses in dreams relate to negative or toxic emotions surfacing. Draining an abscess, despite its vivid nature, symbolizes releasing accumulated negativity. Pus signifies dangerous unconscious buildup.

Absent

Dreaming of an absent parent relates to repressed emotions, past pain, or unconscious links to your inner masculine or feminine. It may indicate a desire to bond or discover more about yourself.

Abstinence

Dreaming of abstinence suggests self-restriction from daily pleasures. It may indicate strong willpower and resilience.

Abundance

Dreaming of an abundance of food or money is a positive symbol, indicating future gains or internal wealth and prosperity.

Abuse

Dreams about abuse may connect to past trauma or situations where others exert power. Animal abuse reflects unconscious behaviors and instincts under attack. Witnessing abuse may indicate situations where power is misused. Escaping abuse suggests fleeing a dangerous environment. Dreams of an abusive ex may contain PTSD elements; see ex dreams.

Abyss

Dreaming of a deep abyss reflects the vast emotional unconscious of the dreamer’s personality. This unexplored part can be frightening yet intriguing, holding mysteries about the dreamer’s psyche.

Academy

Dreaming of being in an academy indicates a desire to find new people to facilitate personal growth, seeking new friendships for guidance.

Accelerator

Seeing an accelerator in your dream symbolizes the right time to advance in life, making decisive moves to progress. If it’s stuck, something may be hindering your advancement. Remember who was present in the dream for additional context.

Accent

Hearing different accents signifies communication challenges or feelings of something being foreign. It reflects your confidence and social interactions in waking life.

Acceptance

Dreaming of not being accepted reflects your agreeable nature, suggesting a need for assertiveness. Being accepted in a dream symbolizes self-pride and confidence among others.

Accident

Accidents in dreams symbolize an abrupt halt in life aspects, serving as warnings of potential dangers. The accident type and transportation mode influence the dream’s meaning.

Warning signs or caution about upcoming events. Seeing blood may indicate a loss of vitality and energy.

Accidental

Dreaming of accidentally harming someone may reflect hidden anger and frustration. It may indicate past mistakes that have gone too far, suggesting a need to assess your feelings and any pent-up aggression.

Accomplice

Dreaming of being an accomplice suggests that someone in your life is negatively influencing you. It’s wise to identify this person and distance yourself. If you have an accomplice, it may indicate that you’re a negative influence on them.

Accordion

Seeing an accordion in your dream signifies adaptability. Playing the accordion might suggest negativity, with too many negative emotions needing to be addressed.

Accountant

Dreaming of an accountant often means you need more organization, especially around tax time. Outside of tax season, it might mean you’re attentive to details and won’t be taken advantage of.

Accounts

Dreaming of bank accounts suggests a need for financial caution and saving. You might be concerned about future financial stability.

Accused

Dreaming of being accused of something you didn’t do may reflect feelings of being blamed for actions you never took or experiencing guilt. These dreams often symbolize being judged and sentenced by others.

Acid

Dreaming of acid represents strong negative emotions such as hate, anger, and loss of control. If you encounter acid in your dream, consider reflecting on your feelings and how to manage them.

Acorn

Dreaming of acorns symbolizes strength and growth. In Nordic and Celtic mythology, acorns represent fertility and immortality, with the oak tree being sacred. See tree dreams.

Acne

These dreams may highlight self-image issues and how you perceive yourself daily. Acne dreams might symbolize feeling unattractive or lacking confidence. Dreaming of popping acne is a positive sign of addressing negative feelings about your appearance.

Acquit

Dreaming of being acquitted in court suggests learning a life lesson. Your subconscious may be pointing out a past event you escaped.

Acrobats

Dreaming of acrobats symbolizes flexibility and balance. If you fall as an acrobat, it suggests a need for more practice. Such dreams may also reflect sexual desires for more variety.

Address

Dreaming of an address indicates a need to confront a situation you might be overlooking. Pay attention to dream details to identify what needs addressing. Dreaming of an old address might mean a desire to revisit the past.

Acting

Acting in dreams can symbolize various things, such as wearing a mask in front of others or desiring to reveal your true self. Dreaming of being in a movie might represent wish fulfillment.

Actor or Actress

Being an actor or actress in a dream suggests a desire to express inner feelings. It represents a need for recognition, grace, and power. This dream might signal a desire to act out roles for others’ enjoyment.

Acupuncture

Acupuncture dreams may symbolize relief from suppressed emotions. The specific body areas in the dream indicate where relief is needed. In ancient Chinese medicine, acupuncture promotes the free flow of energy and removes blockages.

Adder Snake

See snake dreams. Beware of malicious intentions from someone in your life.

Addict

Dreaming of an addict symbolizes a loss of control over someone or something in your life. Addicts in dreams represent weakness and a cry for help. Dreaming of drug addiction indicates a powerful addiction controlling your life.

Addiction

Addiction in dreams can signal a dependency on someone or something, whether positive or negative. It may reflect possessiveness or a resistance to societal norms.

Admiral

Dreaming of an admiral indicates a need for direction and authority. If you are the admiral, it may signify power issues and a need to relax in your authority over others.

Admirer

Dreaming of an admirer highlights your hidden qualities. A stranger showing interest symbolizes your uniqueness and special traits.

Adopting

Dreaming of adopting indicates embracing new responsibilities. It might signify helping someone grow. Adopting animals or babies can reflect your instincts and inner child.

Adultery

Dreaming of adultery often relates to various issues, typically not directly about betrayal. It might symbolize hidden desires or internal conflicts needing resolution.

Related to your subconscious desires. Dreams of infidelity might emerge if you’re lacking emotional support or indulging in wishful thinking.

Advancement

Dreams of advancement are highly positive. Whether it’s at work, school, or home, anticipate upward momentum soon!

Adventure

Dreaming of adventure hints that your current life lacks thrill and needs an excitement boost. You may be tired of your routine and seeking change.

Advertisement

Dreaming of advertisements? Pay close attention. Your subconscious is sending an important message that can help address waking life issues. If you’re advertising yourself, it reflects your desire for recognition.

Advice

Dream advice is a helpful message from your subconscious. It often comes from wise dream figures and can sometimes serve as a warning.

Aerosol

Dreaming of spraying an aerosol can suggests you need to express toxic feelings and come clean emotionally.

Affair

Dreaming of your partner’s affair might indicate insecurities or communication issues. It can symbolize neglect of needs and desires in the relationship.

Affection

Dreaming of giving affection reflects your kind heart. If you’re not typically affectionate, it might be time to show more love. Receiving affection suggests a need for closeness.

Afraid

Being afraid in dreams often involves vivid scenes like heights or animals. These fears mirror your waking life anxieties, hinting at unconscious fears.

Affliction

Dreaming of affliction may signal upcoming bad news or inner turmoil needing stress release.

Africa

Africa symbolizes the wild or unknown aspects of yourself. It may represent a call to explore your inner depths or relate to diverse people. Alternatively, it could signify a desire to return to your roots.

Agate

Dreaming of agates brings positive symbols like joy, peace, happiness, and strength. Breaking one suggests self-destruction, while seeing multiple indicates inner peace.

Age

Dreaming of old age may relate to anxieties about aging and mortality. A young person dreaming of being old might suggest wisdom beyond their years.

Aggression

Dreaming of aggression might indicate someone is bullying you, or that you’re releasing pent-up anger in your dreams.

Agony

Dreaming of agony suggests you need help moving forward or addressing a challenging presence in your life.

Agoraphobia

Dreaming of agoraphobia indicates fear of judgment and a need for confidence. It may signal social anxiety.

AIDS

Dreaming of catching AIDS may suggest internal attacks from others. Dreaming of others with AIDS might indicate a desire to help them.

Aim

Dreaming of aiming suggests you’re focused on your goals. Missing the target implies a need for practice. Aiming a gun might indicate sexual frustration.

Air

Dreaming of air suggests needing space. Polluted air indicates mental fog, while gasping for air might signal feeling suffocated in an area of your life.

Air Conditioner

Seeing an air conditioner in your dream suggests a need to cool down, recharge, or stay calm and collected.

Air Balloon

Dreams of hot air balloons mirror social elevation, advancement, or popularity. They indicate trust in your path and a free-spirited rise above situations.

Air Force

The Air Force symbolizes protection from guides during defensive times or your desire for freedom and independence amidst conflict.

Airport

Airports symbolize major life transitions, representing departure or arrival at new destinations. They appear during changes, transitions, or upcoming adventures.

Airplane

Airplanes in dreams signal significant life shifts. They reflect changes in jobs, relationships, spirituality, and personal growth. Fast takeoffs indicate rapid change, while low-flying planes suggest a slow start.

Airbag

If a car symbolizes your life drive, a deployed airbag might indicate you’re moving too fast and need to slow down.

Alarm

An alarm in your dream might be a much-needed wake-up call, signaling an overdue attention to certain aspects of your life.

Albino

These dreams, depending on context, alter the dream’s meaning. It might be a metaphor related to black and white; yin and yang, or internal opposites. What you perceive as one thing might be another, connecting to the shadow archetype.

Alcohol

If you’re drinking excessively in the dream, it could symbolize real-life overconsumption. If you don’t have a drinking problem, it might suggest a need to focus more on life and stop avoiding reality. Dreaming of alcohol bottles represents wasted time and aggression.

Aliens

Could the alien represent an unknown aspect of yourself recently discovered? Do you feel alienated in waking life? Could this dream suggest that people around you seem different? If you were abducted, it might imply being taken against your will by something unfamiliar.

Alley

An alley is defined as a narrow street, especially one providing rear access to buildings. Does your life path feel narrow with little room to maneuver?

Alligator

Like snakes, these cold-blooded reptiles can be cunning and deceitful. Their water dwelling suggests an emotional attack, either from unconscious aspects of yourself or dangerous people around you. Their thick, camouflaging skin hints at stealth before strikes.

Amal Tree

Dreaming of this tree brings abundance, spiritual fulfillment, and guidance.

Ambulance

An ambulance in your dream serves as a guide to help you reach a place for healing. If it takes you to hospitals, it represents people or events leading you to needed help. A crashing ambulance suggests obstacles on your path to recovery.

Amputation

You might need to let go of something causing grief. The amputated body part may hint at what to address. Amputation could symbolize something prolonged causing distress, needing removal.

Amusement Park

This dream symbol might indicate a need for rest and relaxation. Is your life currently dull and in need of excitement? Could the dream mean you’re being taken for a ride?

Anaconda

Found deep in the Amazon, connected to Mother Earth, these massive snakes symbolize life force. As reptiles, they embody unconscious drives and instincts. Your reaction to the snake may reveal repressed fears.

Anime

Dreaming of anime characters can range from fantasy to incorporating unconscious masculine or feminine energy. Often, these dreams relate to traits people desire.

Anima

The anima, a theory by Carl Jung, refers to the unconscious feminine image in the male psyche, while the animus reflects the masculine within the feminine.

Animus

Carl Jung proposed the animus as the masculine aspect within the feminine, often remaining unconscious.

Ancestors

Ancestors may appear in dreams as messengers, bringing news after their passing.

Amazon

Dreaming of the Amazon rainforest suggests a need to connect with your spiritual side. Venturing deep within, you may encounter a healer (shaman/wise old man) and experience rebirth.

Angels

These dreams typically hold powerful messages of protection, love, guidance, and help. Angels may appear when you need healing or protection, serving as divine messengers and guardians.

Animals

Animals in dreams reflect the dreamer’s unconscious traits, behaviors, or urges. Depending on your understanding, they can appear loving or aggressive, and may represent people in your life.

Ants

This common symbol suggests something might be bothering you. Ants also signify hard work, teamwork, and cooperation, with complex social structures mirroring our own biological systems.

Anxiety

Where were you when anxiety struck in the dream? The setting and people might hint at its source. If alone, perhaps you need time to relax. Anxiety dreams often indicate underlying issues.

Apples

This iconic fruit in religion and mythology appears in your dream for a reason. It signifies fertility, wisdom, sexuality, and temptation, encouraging reflection on related aspects in your life.

Archangel Michael

These dreams may signify a visit from a protective angel during challenging times. He serves as a guide, offering reassurance and defense, with his presence implying a stronger connection with God.

Arena

Arenas suggest fun and completion, with surrounding seating hinting at spectators. Are you watching or in the center? The arena’s shape (see circle) implies overcoming obstacles leads to rewards.

Arguing

Common dreams relating to unconscious memories or repressed emotions not expressed in waking life. Arguments with family, exes, or deceased loved ones hint at unresolved conflicts needing decoding based on dream context.

Army

These dreams suggest protection or internal/external conflict. The army’s power and size serve as a metaphor for the struggle’s scale.

Relates to the support or resources you have in a situation. This could symbolize unconscious feelings of preparing for a conflict. If you’re in a battle, it shows your proximity to this personal struggle and your current circumstances. Winning or losing reflects real-life situations. This might involve repressed anger surfacing in the dream. If you’re being invaded, it suggests external forces are threatening. This could relate to personal, emotional, or work issues.

Armageddon

These dreams highlight internal conflicts or struggles between right and wrong. They mirror waking life, requiring a decision that is entirely yours. Your choice of direction reflects emotional turmoil.

Arranged Marriage

These dreams suggest bringing two people together to form a bond. Whether you resist or go along indicates how you’ll handle this union. You might feel forced into something you don’t want by family or powerful individuals.

Arrested

Being arrested in a dream implies being metaphorically detained in life. Authority figures may warn about unknown behaviors or impede progress. Handcuffs might relate to work, while confinement suggests stagnation, possibly leading to judgment.

Arrow

Arrows in dreams spotlight energy directed towards life goals. Being shot symbolizes aggression toward you. Holding a bow and arrow represents your actions and aspirations.

Astronaut

Dreaming of being an astronaut suggests a deep desire to explore the unknown and grow spiritually, similar to meditation.

Asteroid

Asteroids, while large space rocks, symbolize balance, luck, but can disrupt your atmosphere unexpectedly, representing feminine and masculine elements.

Attack

Attack dreams can signify unconscious self-inflicted behaviors or aggressive people in your life, becoming emotionally felt yet unseen.

Attic

The attic symbolizes hidden gems within you, representing past goals, desires, or repressed sexual experiences. Exploring the attic might suggest seeking meaning in repressed thoughts and attitudes.

Attorney

This dream may indicate a need for help or fairness, possibly related to work or personal issues. Do you feel powerless or deserving of better treatment?

Auction

You might make a deal soon. Understanding auction dynamics means making a confident decision about something you wish to keep, possibly relating to arts.

Aunt

Dreaming of your aunt usually symbolizes protection, feminine energy, and support. Their actions, such as crying, being pregnant, or dying, alter the dream’s meaning.

Auras

The color of the aura affects the dream’s meaning. These dreams show your ability to sense others’ emotions.

Autumn

Autumn dreams might foretell a fall or relate to seasonal transitions, approaching the cold and endings.

Aurora Borealis

These dreams bring attention to your spirit guide or renewal in spiritual energy, urging closeness with nature or self.

Author

This dream might suggest writing down your thoughts or expressing them to others. It could also indicate a need for deeper self-communication, as Socrates said, “Know thyself.”

Avalanche

Avalanches warn of careful steps in life. Any disruption can cause major issues, and being covered suggests overwhelming burdens.

Awakening

These dreams often end badly but suggest rebirth and growing awareness. Symbols like eggs hatching, pregnancies, and weather changes can signify emotional upheaval.

Axe

An axe might symbolize a request or a need for sexual assertion. Freud suggested a sexual link. Trees, as symbols of growth and nourishment, have deeper meanings. Dreaming of an axe murder indicates repetitive negative behaviors that weaken your energy.