Dream symbols beginning with C (page 1 of 2)

320 symbols beginning with C. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.

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Cannot find a bathroomSearching for a toilet and never finding a usable one is far more common than people expect, and it usually has both a plain bodily cause and a rea...
Car AccidentA car accident often pictures a fear of losing control or a collision ahead in waking life, a plan or relationship heading for trouble.
Car will not startTurning a key and getting nothing is one of the most frequently described driving dreams, and it usually attaches to a waking effort that is not pr...
CheatingDreaming of cheating, your own or a partner's, more often reflects trust, insecurity, or neglect in waking life than a literal affair.
ChokingChoking in a dream often points to something you feel unable to express or get out, or a situation that leaves you struggling to breathe freely.
ClimbingStairs are a structure; climbing is effort against gravity, and that difference is the dream. These are usually about how hard something is rather...
Committing SuicideDreaming of taking your own life is rarely a literal wish and more often a stark image of wanting to end a situation or part of yourself that feels...
ConfessingDreaming of confessing often reflects a weight you are carrying and a wish to set something down by speaking it aloud.
CookingCooking in a dream often reflects creating, nurturing, or preparing something, and how much care or effort you are putting into it.
CryingCrying in a dream often releases a grief or relief the waking self has held back, and you may even wake with the feeling still there.
CabbageCabbage often points to plain sustenance, thrift, and the homely fare of the everyday garden.
CabinA cabin often pictures retreat, simplicity, and solitude, a small shelter apart from the noise of ordinary life.
Cable CarA cable car often pictures being carried high and suspended, lifted above the ground while held by a line you have to trust.
CactusA cactus often pictures endurance in hard conditions, a guarded kind of life that protects itself with spines yet still holds water and bloom within.
CafeteriaA room where everyone eats at the same time and chooses where to sit is a social machine, and dreams tend to be about the sitting rather than the f...
CageA cage often points to confinement and a feeling of being trapped or of trapping something, so notice whether you were inside it, outside, or holdi...
CakeCake often stands for celebration, reward, and indulgence, the marking of an occasion or the wish to be treated.
CalendarA calendar in a dream is time made into an object, and dreamers frequently report that it will not resolve: the dates are wrong, missing, or refuse...
CamelA camel often stands for endurance and self-sufficiency, the ability to carry a heavy load across a long, dry stretch.
CameraA camera usually points to how you frame and keep a moment, so it helps to ask what you were trying to capture and whether the shot came out.
CanalWater made to go where it does not want to is a distinctive dream image: a river with edges and a purpose, and usually very still.
CancerDreams about cancer are reported by people who have it, people who have lost somebody to it, and people who are simply afraid of it, and the three...
CandleA candle often stands for hope, guidance, or a life burning, a small light against the dark whose flame can mean faith, memory, or fragility.
CandyCandy usually points to indulgence, reward, and small pleasures, and sometimes to a tempting thing that does not nourish.
CannibalismOne of the strongest taboos there is, and in dreams it is nearly always about consumption in a figurative sense: something taking everything.
CanopySomething spread overhead to shelter or to honour makes a specific dream image, and the reported detail is usually whether the dreamer is under it...
CanyonA canyon often pictures a deep divide or a long-cut wound in the ground, the mark of time and force, and sometimes the distance between two sides o...
CaptainA captain in a dream often represents leadership, the one who decides the course, or the part of you taking responsibility, rather than a literal s...
CarA car often stands for your sense of control and direction in life, with trouble steering or braking a common image of things running away from you.
CardinalA cardinal or bright songbird often points to a vivid spark of feeling, a small piece of good news, or a sense of being visited by something hopeful.
CargoGoods being moved somewhere makes a dream about transit rather than possession, and the reported detail is usually not knowing what is in the conta...
CarnationA carnation often pictures affection and ceremony, a frilled flower long tied to love, remembrance, and the marking of occasions.
CarnivalA festival where the ordinary order is suspended makes a strong dream setting, and dreamers often report not being able to tell who is in costume.
CarpenterA carpenter often stands for building, craft, and the patient making of something solid, rather than a literal structure.
CarrotA carrot usually stands for reward and incentive, the lure held out to draw effort onward.
CarryingCarrying something heavy in a dream is reported for the weight rather than the object, and dreamers often cannot say afterwards what was in their a...
Cash machineA machine that dispenses money on request is a modern dream object with an old anxiety attached, and the reported detail is nearly always that it w...
CasinoA casino often stands for chance, risk, and the hope of a sudden change in fortune, along with the fear of losing what you stake.
CastleA castle often stands for ambition, security, or a guarded inner world, a place of strength that can also wall you off.
CastrationA dream of losing a part of the body carries the fear of permanent diminishment, and Freud built so much on this image that reading it now requires...
CatA cat often pictures independence, intuition, or mixed feelings, sitting between the tame and the wild.
CatapultA machine that stores force and releases it at a distance makes an old dream object, and the reported detail is usually the winding rather than the...
CaterpillarA creature that exists in order to become something else is one of the few dream animals whose meaning is nearly universal, and dreamers usually kn...
CauldronA cauldron is a container for transformation, and dreams tend to be about what is going into it rather than what comes out.
CaveA cave often pictures the inner self, the unconscious, or a place of retreat, a dark interior holding both fear and hidden treasure.
CedarA cedar often pictures lasting strength and shelter, an old evergreen long linked with endurance and a steady, protective calm.
CeilingA ceiling is the limit you are lying under, which is why it turns up so often in dreams of confinement, and why its height tends to matter more tha...
CelebrityA celebrity often stands for a quality you admire or wish for, such as recognition, glamour, or talent, rather than a literal connection to the fam...
CemeteryA cemetery usually brings endings, memory, and grief to the foreground, a place to meet what has passed and what you carry of it.
CentaurA centaur in a dream often pictures a union of instinct and intellect, animal drive and human mind held in one body, and how you balance the two.
CentipedeA centipede often points to a creeping unease, many small fears moving at once, or something that makes your skin crawl.
ChainA chain usually points to what binds or links you, whether bondage or a connection you cannot break, so notice whether it felt like a burden or a b...
ChairA chair usually stands for your place, position, or authority, so notice whether you sat at ease, were kept standing, or found the seat taken.
ChameleonAn animal that changes to match its surroundings makes an obvious dream figure, and the reported detail is usually that the dreamer cannot see it u...
ChampagneChampagne usually pictures celebration, success, and a special occasion, the wish to mark something as worth toasting.
ChandelierA chandelier is light made into a spectacle, hanging over people, and dreams tend to notice the hanging: the weight above the room.
CharcoalCharcoal often suggests the sombre, serious, or subdued, a deep grey near to black that can feel grounded or heavy.
ChariotA chariot often pictures driven, willed advance, mastering powerful forces and steering them toward a goal.
CheekA cheek often points to warmth and intimacy, the place of a blush or a kiss, and sometimes to boldness or shame shown plainly on the face.
CheeseCheese usually points to richness, reward, and small comforts, and sometimes to a choice or a lure.
CheetahA cheetah often stands for sudden speed, a burst of focused effort, or a chase that you must either win quickly or let go.
ChefA chef in a dream often represents nourishment, creativity, and the care taken in preparing what sustains you, rather than a literal meal.
ChequeA written promise of money makes a distinctive dream object, and the reported trouble is usually that it cannot be cashed or that the amount keeps...
CherryA cherry usually stands for sweetness, small delight, and the prized finishing touch.
Cherry BlossomCherry blossom often pictures fleeting beauty, a brief flowering that is lovely and short, long linked with the tender passing of time.
ChickenA chicken often points to everyday worry, nurture, or alarm, while a rooster can stand for waking up, pride, or a loud announcement.
ChildA child in a dream often stands for a quality in yourself rather than a literal person, your own younger self, a fresh start, or something new and...
ChildhoodReturning to childhood in a dream often points to memory, a longing for simpler days, or a part of yourself asking for attention.
ChimneyA chimney is the household's one deliberate opening to the sky, and dreams tend to use it for what gets out and, more often, for what comes down.
ChimpanzeeA chimpanzee often points to a playful, clever, mirror-like part of yourself, or to behaviour that feels both familiar and a little exposing.
ChinA chin often points to resolve and how you face things, the set of the jaw against trouble, or to pride and the way you carry yourself.
ChipmunkA chipmunk often points to busy little errands, the habit of storing up for later, or a quick, restless energy looking for an outlet.
ChocolateChocolate often stands for indulgence, comfort, and reward, the rich treat we turn to for solace or pleasure.
ChristmasChristmas in a dream tends to arrive loaded, and what people report is rarely the day itself: it is a room, a smell, or somebody who is not there a...
ChrysanthemumA chrysanthemum often pictures autumn, long life, and remembrance, a late-blooming flower tied both to endurance and to honouring the dead.
ChurchA church usually stands for belief, conscience, or a search for meaning, a place to seek refuge, judgment, or peace.
CircleA closed line with no beginning makes one of the simplest and most loaded dream shapes, and dreamers frequently report being inside one.
CityA city often pictures community, opportunity, and the press of many lives at once, the wider world you move through.
ClayClay often pictures raw material and the power to shape, something soft and unformed that waits to be made, with both promise and the need for work.
CliffA cliff often pictures the edge of a big decision or risk, a point where you face a drop, a choice, or the fear of losing your footing.
ClockA clock usually brings time itself to the foreground, pressure, mortality, or the sense that something is due or running out.
ClothesClothes tend to stand for the self you present to others, so notice whether they fit the moment, felt borrowed, or left you exposed.
CloudsClouds often picture uncertainty, passing moods, or something obscured, the way the view can shift from clear to grey and back.
CloverClover often pictures luck, simple plenty, and the small green carpet of ordinary fields, with the rare four-leaf form tied to fortune.
ClownA clown often stands for a mask, hidden feeling, or playfulness, or for a fear that something cheerful conceals something unsettling, rather than a...
CoalCoal often pictures stored energy and worth held in a dark and plain form, fuel waiting to be burned, or value that is not obvious at a glance.
CobraA cobra often points to a coiled, watchful danger, hidden power, or a fear that rises up to confront you directly.
CocaineDreams about using are among the most distressing experiences in recovery, and they are common, well documented, and not a relapse.
CockroachA cockroach often points to disgust, a lingering problem that keeps returning, or something you wish you could be rid of for good.
CocktailA cocktail often stands for social pleasure, mixing, and a crafted indulgence, sometimes a glamorous front.
CoconutA coconut usually stands for a hard shell guarding hidden nourishment, and the work of getting to what is within.
CoffeeCoffee usually stands for alertness, drive, and the daily push to keep going, and sometimes for needing a lift.
CoffinA coffin usually marks an ending you are facing, the close of a phase or an old self more than a literal death, and sometimes a feeling of being bo...
CoinA coin usually pictures a small, exact payment: something owed, something settled, or the price of passage from one state to another.
CollegeDreams of being back at university are reported for decades afterwards, and they usually involve a course the dreamer forgot they were enrolled on.
ComaA coma in a dream often pictures a part of life that feels suspended or shut away, and it is not a sign of what is to come.
CometA comet often stands for a rare event or a striking sign, something that crosses your sky briefly and seems to mark a moment.
CompassA compass often stands for your inner guidance and sense of true direction, so it helps to ask whether it pointed surely or spun without settling.
CompassionCompassion in a dream usually reflects a movement of care toward someone's suffering, and who you felt for can point to where your tenderness is dr...
ComputerA computer often stands for the thinking, sorting mind or the systems you depend on, so notice whether it worked, froze, or failed you.
ConceptionConception in a dream often pictures the start of something new, an idea, a hope, or a plan taking hold, more than a literal pregnancy.
ConfusionConfusion in a dream often mirrors a waking situation you have not yet made sense of, and the feeling can be a sign the mind is still sorting rathe...
Conjoined twinsA dream of two people who cannot separate is a powerful image and a real condition, and those two things need holding apart carefully.
ConstellationA constellation usually points to a pattern you have drawn out of scattered things, a story or order found among separate points.
ConstipationAn undignified and entirely common bodily state, and one of the dream subjects where the physical explanation should come first and usually is the...
ContemptContempt in a dream often marks a looking-down on someone or something, and who you scorned is usually worth weighing against what you may be refus...
ContentmentContentment in a dream usually reflects a settled ease with how things are, and noticing what gave that calm can show where you feel at peace.
ContractA document that binds makes a distinctive dream object, and the reported detail is nearly always that the dreamer has signed something they cannot...
ConvertibleA convertible or sports car often pictures speed, openness, and the pleasure of moving fast with nothing overhead.
CookiesCookies often stand for small comforts, reward, and nostalgia, the simple treats tied to childhood and warmth.
Coral (Color)Coral often suggests warmth, liveliness, and gentle vitality, a soft pink-orange tied to life, the sea, and friendly energy.
CornCorn often stands for harvest, fertility, and abundance, the golden plenty of the gathered field.
CorpseWhere a dream of death deals in an abstraction, a corpse is an object in the room, and the dream is usually about proximity rather than mortality:...
CosmosThe cosmos usually points to the whole of things, a sense of order, mystery, or your small place in a vast scheme.
CottageA cottage often pictures simplicity, retreat, and homely comfort, a wish for a quieter and more modest life.
CougarA cougar often points to self-reliant strength, a patient stalking of what you want, or a wild power that keeps to the high lonely places.
CountrysideOpen land in a dream tends to be about the absence of buildings rather than the presence of nature, and the reported feeling is usually space.
CourageCourage in a dream usually marks a willingness to face what frightens you, and what you stood up to is often worth weighing against a waking challe...
CourtyardA courtyard is outside with walls around it, and dreams tend to use that contradiction: open air the dreamer cannot leave, or safety with the sky s...
CousinA cousin often stands for a quality you associate with that branch of the family or with shared youth, a familiar yet slightly distant side of your...
CowA cow often carries nourishment, patience, and the maternal, the steady provider, though it can also picture passivity.
CowardiceCowardice in a dream often marks a turning away from what you feel you should face, and what you fled is usually worth weighing gently against waki...
CoworkerColleagues turn up in dreams far more than most people expect, and usually not as themselves: the dream borrows a face from the place where you spe...
CoyoteA coyote often points to cunning and survival, a trickster energy that can outwit you or teach you to adapt.
CrabA crab often stands for guardedness and sideways movement, a hard shell over a soft inside, or an indirect way of approaching things.
CraneA crane often points to patience, watchfulness, and long life, while a stork can carry the sense of new arrivals and beginnings.
CraterA crater often pictures the lasting mark of a past blow or eruption, a hollow left where something violent once struck, and the slow healing around...
CreamCream often pictures richness, indulgence, and the best part skimmed from the top.
CremationCremation in a dream often pictures a complete ending or a release, the clearing away of what is finished, rather than a literal forecast.
Crescent MoonA crescent moon often stands for beginnings, change, or a hidden fullness, the part of something showing while the rest stays dark.
CriminalA criminal in a dream is more often watched than encountered, and dreamers frequently report knowing what the person had done without being told.
CrocodileA crocodile or alligator often pictures a hidden danger or a powerful instinct lurking just below the surface, patient and sudden.
CrossA cross usually carries faith, sacrifice, or a meeting of choices, so notice whether it brought comfort, weight, or a sense of being at a crossing.
CrowA crow or raven often carries a message or an omen, sometimes of change or loss, sometimes simply of a sharp intelligence watching.
CrowdA crowd often stands for social pressure, your sense of belonging or being lost among others, or many parts of yourself at once, rather than a lite...
CrownA crown often stands for authority, achievement, or recognition, the power and the burden of being raised above others.
CrushA crush often stands for longing, possibility, or a quality you are drawn to, rather than a literal sign about whether the feeling is returned.
CryptA crypt is the room a building keeps its dead in, directly under the room it keeps its living in, and dreams tend to use that stacking rather than...
CrystalA crystal often pictures clarity, order, and something precious formed slowly over time, a clear structure that can suggest insight or hidden value.
Crystal BallA crystal ball in a dream often pictures a wish to see what is coming, anxiety about the unknown, or a search for clarity in something still clouded.
CuckooA cuckoo often stands for the herald of a new season, an unwelcome intruder in your nest, or a familiar call that signals change is at hand.
CucumberA cucumber usually stands for coolness, calm, and refreshment, the quiet steadiness of keeping your head.
CupA cup usually stands for what you are offered or what fills your life, so notice whether it was full, overflowing, empty, or hard to reach.
CuriosityCuriosity in a dream usually marks a pull toward something unknown, and what you were drawn to look into is often the thread worth following.
CurrentA current often pictures a force pulling beneath the surface, the drift of events or feeling that carries you along, sometimes gently and sometimes...
CurryA dish that means a hundred different things depending on who is cooking makes a specific dream object, and the reported detail is usually the smell.
CurseA curse often points to a feeling of bad luck, blame, or being held back by something you cannot name, and to fears of fault or punishment.
CurtainA curtain usually pictures a soft boundary: something you could pull aside at any moment and have agreed not to.
CyanCyan often suggests clarity, coolness, and bright open calm, a vivid blue-green that can feel fresh and clean or coldly impersonal.
CyclopsA cyclops in a dream often pictures a crude, overpowering force, or a single narrow view that sees only one thing and misses the rest.
CameoA face carved in relief out of layered stone or shell, so the portrait is one colour and the background another.
CaneA stick that supports a person walking, and the same object that was used to beat children in schools within living memory.
CanaryA bird bred for song and colour, kept in a cage, and sent down mines to die slightly before the men did.
CandlestickThe holder rather than the flame, and one of the few household objects designed entirely around catching what falls.
CannonA weapon that made stone walls pointless, and which now mostly appears as a monument outside buildings it once would have destroyed.
CarpetFlooring you walk on barefoot, which makes it the surface a house is judged by and the one that holds everything dropped on it.
CashierThe person at the point where a transaction becomes real, and the one who has to say the number out loud.
CauliflowerA vegetable that is really an arrested flower, bred so the bud never opens and eaten in the state of not quite happening.
CeleryMostly water and string, eaten largely for the noise it makes and the sense of virtue it produces.
ChalkCompressed shells from an ancient sea, quarried into sticks so that children could be taught with the remains of plankton.
ChaliceA cup that only exists to be shared, which is the whole of its difference from any other cup.
CheckersA game with one kind of piece and one move, which is why it is taught to children and why it has been solved by computers.
ChessA game where the most powerful piece is the queen and the whole thing ends when the king cannot move, which nobody designed as a comment and which...
ChestnutA nut inside a case covered in spines, so the tree makes you work for it, and a word that also means a story told too often.
ChimesTuned metal left where the weather can play it, which makes it the only instrument most households own that nobody performs on.
ChoirA group producing one sound out of many people, where being heard individually is the failure rather than the goal.
Christmas treeA conifer brought indoors to die slowly under decoration, and one of the few objects that carries an entire family's history in a box.
CiderApples pressed and left to change, and the drink whose strength varies more than any other according to who made it.
City hallThe building where decisions about a place are made by people who mostly live in it, and the phrase for whatever you cannot fight.
ClamAn animal that lives inside a hinge, and the source of a phrase about people who will not talk.
CoatThe layer worn between a person and the weather, put on to leave and taken off to arrive.
CollarThe part of a garment that sits at the throat, and the same word for what goes on a dog and what marks a priest.
ComedyA form defined by its ending rather than its jokes, which is why old comedies can be unfunny and still comedies.
ConfettiPaper thrown to mark a moment, chosen precisely because it is worthless and impossible to gather up again.
CoralAn animal that builds rock, mistaken for a plant for most of recorded history and now dying faster than it can be recorded.
CorkBark stripped from a living tree that grows it back, and the only common material that seals by being squeezed.
CorkscrewA spiral driven into something in order to pull it out, which is a stranger solution than its familiarity suggests.
CorsetA garment that reshapes the body by compressing it, worn for centuries as ordinary underwear and now read almost entirely as a statement.
CottonThe most ordinary cloth there is, and the one with the worst history, which almost nobody thinks about while folding it.
CouchFurniture for sitting that is mostly used for lying down, and the one object that stands for an entire method of therapy.
CradleA bed built to rock, which is the one piece of furniture designed around motion rather than stillness.
CrayfishA freshwater animal built like a small lobster, and in Britain and Ireland now mostly a story about an invasive species eating the native one.
CrossbonesTwo thigh bones set behind a skull, which is a graveyard carving that became a warning label and then a brand.
CrossroadsThe place where a choice has to be made and where, in a very large number of traditions, something is waiting to make it with you.
CupboardStorage with a door, which makes it the household's official place for things that are kept but not shown.
CymbalAn instrument that cannot be played quietly or taken back, and whose whole job is to arrive at one exact moment.
Church bellThe loudest thing most communities ever built, rung to mark the hour, a death, a wedding and an emergency with different patterns.
CavityA hole in a tooth, which is the only part of the body that cannot repair itself and therefore only ever gets worse.
CementA powder that sets by chemical reaction rather than by drying, which is why concrete cures under water and why it never really stops hardening.
Central heatingWarmth delivered to every room from one source, which quietly ended the practice of a family sharing a single fire.
ChoppingRepetitive work with a blade, done either at a board or at a block, and one of the few tasks where thinking about it makes you worse at it.
ClarinetAn instrument that overblows to a twelfth rather than an octave, which makes it harder to learn than anything beside it and gives it two voices.
Coal mineA workplace with no daylight, entered by men who could hear the roof talking and learned to read it.
Coffee tableFurniture at the wrong height for anything, which is why it holds everything and is used for nothing.
CommunismA political idea, a set of states that claimed it, and for many dreamers a childhood memory of being told what to be afraid of.
Compact discA format that was permanent, then obsolete, inside thirty years, and which a great many people still own several hundred of.
ConcertA room where a large number of people agree to face the same way and be quiet, which is a stranger arrangement than its familiarity suggests.
CopperA metal that goes green rather than rusting away, and a British word for a police officer that has nothing to do with the metal.
CouncilThe layer of government closest to a person's actual life, and the one they are most likely to be in an argument with.
CourtroomA room designed so that everybody's position tells you their role, and where the person it is about often says the least.

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