116 symbols beginning with D. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- DancingDancing in a dream often reflects a sense of harmony, freedom, or release, the feeling of moving in step with your life or with another person.
- Death in a dreamA death in a dream usually marks change and endings being worked through, not a literal forecast.
- Digging something upUnearthing something is the other half of burying, and dreams tend to be ambivalent about it: the object is wanted and the finding is not entirely...
- DrivingThe car is agency; driving is exercising it. That is why these dreams so rarely stay ordinary: the interesting ones are about the brakes, the steer...
- DrowningDrowning usually pictures emotional overwhelm, the sense of being in over your head.
- DaffodilA daffodil often pictures the first lift of spring, an early bright flower long tied to renewal, hope, and the return of light.
- DaisyA daisy often stands for innocence, simplicity, and small everyday hope, a modest flower tied to childhood and gentle feeling.
- DamA dam is water held back on purpose, and dreams tend to be about the holding rather than the water: the structure is doing work every second and no...
- DandelionA dandelion often pictures wishes, scattering, and stubborn life, a common flower that turns to seed and drifts away on the wind.
- DarknessDarkness often stands for the unknown, fear, or what is hidden from view, but also rest and the quiet before something comes to light.
- DaughterA daughter often represents a quality you associate with her or with daughterhood, such as tenderness, hope, or a younger side of yourself, more th...
- DaytimeOrdinary daylight is so common in dreams that its absence is more remarkable than its presence, and dreamers usually only report it when the light...
- DeathDeath in a dream rarely means literal death; far more often it marks the ending of a phase so something new can begin.
- DebtDebt in a dream is usually about the weight rather than the sum, and dreamers often report owing something they cannot identify.
- DecayDecay in a dream is time made visible, and the reported feeling is usually not disgust but a kind of recognition: the thing has been like this for...
- DeckThe open top of a ship is a place with nothing above it, and dreams tend to notice the exposure: no shelter, and the edge is close.
- DeerA deer often stands for gentleness, alertness, or a wish to move through life with grace, while a stag can carry a sense of pride and standing.
- DelayWaiting for something that will not start makes a distinctively modern dream, and the reported feeling is powerlessness rather than impatience: nob...
- DemolitionWatching a building come down on purpose is a specific dream image, and the reported feeling is usually a mixture of satisfaction and loss that dre...
- DemonA demon usually pictures an inner force felt as evil or out of control, whether fear, temptation, or a part of the self that has been cast out.
- DentistA dentist in a dream often connects to anxiety, vulnerability, or the wish to fix something painful, rather than a literal visit.
- Department storeA single building selling everything makes a distinctive dream setting, and the reported trouble is usually the floors: the dreamer cannot find the...
- DepthSomething being deep in a dream is about what cannot be seen from the surface, and the reported feeling is usually the not-knowing rather than the...
- DesertA desert often stands for a dry or empty stretch of life, a feeling of isolation, scarcity, or testing, though it can also mean clarity and space.
- DespairDespair in a dream carries a heavy sense that no way out remains, and what feels closed off is usually the thread to follow back into waking life.
- DetectiveA detective in a dream is the part that wants an explanation, and the dream frequently refuses to supply one: the investigation is the content.
- DewDew usually points to freshness, a quiet new beginning, or a small grace that settles gently overnight.
- DiabetesA dream about a chronic condition is usually about management rather than about crisis, and people who actually have it report a very different dre...
- DiademA band worn on the head to mark rank makes a formal dream object, and the reported detail is usually that it does not fit or that the dreamer has n...
- DiceObjects designed to produce a result nobody controls make a sharp dream image, and the reported detail is usually that the dreamer cannot read the...
- DictionaryA book that fixes meanings makes a self-referential dream object, and the reported trouble is nearly always that the word the dreamer needs is miss...
- DiggingMoving earth by hand makes a slow, physical dream image, and the reported detail is usually that the hole does not get deeper.
- DinnerThe main meal of the day gathers people at a fixed hour, and dreams tend to use that: the reported detail is usually who is at the table and who is...
- DinosaurAn animal that is enormous and definitively gone makes a strange dream figure, and the reported feeling is usually wonder rather than fear.
- DisappointmentDisappointment in a dream usually carries a gap between what you hoped for and what came, and what fell short is often the thread worth following.
- DisgustDisgust in a dream often marks something you want to push away or reject, and what triggers it is usually worth weighing against a waking situation...
- DishesWashing up in a dream is one of the plainest images there is, and the reported trouble is always the same: the pile does not go down.
- DistanceSomething far away in a dream frequently stays far away, and the reported experience is of moving without closing the gap.
- DitchA cut in the ground for water to run along makes a low, unglamorous dream image, and the reported detail is usually being in one rather than lookin...
- DivorceA divorce in a dream often pictures separation, change, or a tension you are working through, not always a sign about your marriage.
- DizzinessDizziness in a dream often marks a sense of losing your footing or balance, and what threw you off is usually worth weighing against where waking l...
- DoctorA doctor often stands for healing, authority, or concern about wellbeing, or for the part of you that wants to put things right, rather than a lite...
- DogA dog usually reflects loyalty, friendship, and protection, turning threatening when it pictures conflict with someone close.
- DollA doll often carries echoes of childhood or a stand-in for a person, so it helps to ask whether it felt comforting, lifeless, or unsettling.
- DolphinA dolphin often brings playfulness, guidance, and friendliness from the deep, intelligence and goodwill rising from the unconscious.
- DomeA dome is a ceiling that pretends to be a sky, and dreams tend to respond to that: the space feels larger than the building and the sound behaves o...
- DonkeyA donkey often stands for patient, humble labour, stubbornness, or the steady carrying of burdens others overlook.
- DoorA door pictures choice and transition, an open one inviting possibility and a locked one marking a limit or obstacle.
- DoppelgangerA doppelganger in a dream often pictures a double of yourself, a disowned side made visible, or unease about identity and who is truly you.
- DoubtDoubt in a dream often reflects uncertainty about a choice or about yourself, and what you were unsure of is usually the thread worth following.
- DoveA dove often signals peace, gentleness, or a longing for reconciliation and calm after conflict.
- DragonA dragon usually pictures a great power or fear, a hoard to be won or a force to be faced, the obstacle that guards the treasure.
- DragonflyA dragonfly often points to change, lightness, and seeing clearly, a brief, shimmering passage from one stage of life to another.
- DrawbridgeA drawbridge is a way in that its owner controls, and dreams tend to be about the raising or lowering rather than the crossing: who decides, and wh...
- DrillA drill often points to boring through resistance or pressing hard at one fixed point, so notice whether it broke through or got stuck.
- Driving testAn examination that combines performance, judgement and a stranger with a clipboard is a reliably anxious dream, and dreamers frequently report tak...
- DrizzleDrizzle often stands for a low, lingering mood, a small sadness or unease that settles in without ever quite breaking.
- DroughtA drought in a dream often stands for a dry spell in your life, a stretch where comfort, ideas, or feeling seem to have run out.
- DrumA drum often stands for a rhythm or a heartbeat you are keeping, so it helps to ask whether the beat steadied you, drove you on, or grew alarming.
- DuckA duck often stands for ease across changing conditions, staying calm on the surface while paddling hard underneath.
- DustDust often pictures the settling of time, neglect, or things long untouched, the fine remains of what has worn away and gathered in the quiet.
- Deep voiceA voice pitched lower than expected, and dreamers most often report it coming from the wrong person or from nobody visible at all.
- DahliaA flower with no scent, bred into thousands of forms for looks alone, and grown from a tuber that has to be lifted before the frost.
- Dance teacherSomebody paid to watch you closely and say what is wrong, which is a stranger arrangement than the lesson makes it feel.
- DominoesTiles matched end to end, and the source of a metaphor about consequence that has almost swallowed the game itself.
- DoorbellA sound that means somebody is already at the house, which is why it produces a reaction before any thought about who it might be.
- DramaA form built on the fact that everybody in the room can see what one character cannot, which is the whole of how it works.
- DunghillA heap of waste that is also the most valuable thing on a farm, which is a contradiction only city people find surprising.
- DynamiteAn explosive invented to make blasting safer, by a man whose obituary was printed early and badly enough to change what he did with his money.
- Door knockerA handle for announcing yourself that had to be gripped and used deliberately, which is a different act from pressing a button.
- Desk lampLight aimed at a small area on purpose, which makes the rest of the room darker than it was before you switched it on.
- DoughnutA cake defined by the hole in it, which was cut there so the middle would cook, and which then became the whole point.
- DrainpipeA vertical pipe on the outside of a house that everybody has considered climbing and almost nobody has, because they do not hold.
- DrugA word covering medicine and harm depending entirely on context, and a dream subject that deserves plain speaking rather than symbolism.
- DustbinThe one container in a house whose contents are a decision, and the only object put out on the street on a schedule.
- DustpanA tool that never quite finishes, because there is always a line of dust left at the edge that has to be chased.
- DrawingLooking at something closely enough to reproduce it, which is why people who draw see more than people who do not.
- DuelViolence with rules, seconds and a written procedure, which made it a legal problem rather than simply a crime.
- DenialThe dream that carries on normally around a fact everybody in it is refusing to mention.
- DevotionSustained attention given to one thing over a long time, which looks like love from inside and can look like compulsion from outside.
- DovecoteA building of nesting holes kept for eating the birds, which for centuries only landowners were permitted to have.
- DeltaWhere a river gives up being one river, splits into many, and puts down everything it has carried the whole way.
- DuneA hill made of sand that is moving, slowly, in one direction, and that keeps its shape while none of its material stays.
- DecanterA vessel for pouring wine off its sediment, which exists because something has settled and is to be left behind.
- DescendingGoing down, which dreams treat as the harder direction emotionally even though it is the easier one physically.
- DulcimerA box of strings struck with small hammers, where the strings are not stopped and every one of them rings whether it was hit or not.
- DiaphragmThe sheet of muscle that does the breathing, working continuously without instruction and yielding to deliberate control the moment attention arrives.
- DyerA trade working with materials that stain the worker permanently, so a dyer's hands announce the trade before they say anything.
- DamselflyA slender relative of the dragonfly that folds its wings along its back at rest, and spends most of its life as a predator underwater.
- DamsonA small sour plum that is barely edible raw and becomes something else entirely once cooked with sugar.
- DormouseA small rodent that sleeps through more than half the year, and that the Romans fattened in jars for the table.
- DraperA seller of cloth by the length, measuring against a brass yard let into the counter, where the whole trade turned on where you cut.
- DamaskA cloth patterned by weaving alone rather than by dye, so the design is visible only as light catches the two directions of thread.
- DoubletA close-fitting padded jacket that was the standard male garment for centuries and was sometimes padded into shapes no body has.
- DidgeridooA wooden tube hollowed by termites and played with circulating breath, so the note does not stop when the player inhales.
- DriftingMoving without steering, where something else supplies the direction and the traveller supplies only the presence.
- DependenceRelying on somebody or something you cannot do without, which is a description of nearly everyone and an accusation when said aloud.
- DignityA standing a person holds regardless of circumstances, which is easiest to see when everything else has been taken away.
- DutyAn obligation performed because it is owed rather than because it is wanted, which is what distinguishes it from everything else.
- DillA feathery herb whose name comes from a word meaning to lull, and which was given to children to settle them.
- DogfishA small shark sold under half a dozen other names, most of them chosen to avoid saying shark.
- Double bassThe largest instrument in the string section, and the only one tuned in fourths rather than fifths, so its player learned a different system.
- DredgerA vessel that digs a channel and keeps it open, doing work that is invisible until it stops being done.
- DelphiniumA tall blue spike named for the dolphin its unopened bud was thought to resemble, and poisonous from root to seed.
- DeedA document that does not describe an act but is the act, so the paper and the transfer are the same event.
- DowryProperty brought to a marriage by the bride's family, which made the wedding a transfer of assets with a ceremony attached.
- DirgeA song for the dead, named from the first word of the office sung over them, which was an instruction to God.
- Dolly tubA washing tub agitated with a wooden dolly, which is where the work of laundry actually was before machines.
- DarningWeaving a new patch of cloth directly into a hole, so the repair is made of the same structure as the thing repaired.
- Drystone wallA wall built without mortar, which stands because the stones are placed to lock, and lets wind straight through on purpose.
- DowelA wooden peg that joins two pieces without metal, swelling slightly with the wood so the joint tightens rather than loosens.
- Deja vuThe sense that this exact moment has happened before, arriving with full confidence and no supporting detail whatsoever.
- Dolls houseA house with the front taken off, which lets the owner see every room at once and stand outside all of them.
- DecadeTen years treated as though they had a personality, which is a habit of naming rather than a fact about time.
- DeadlineA time after which a thing is no longer accepted, named for a line that was not a metaphor when the word was made.
- DroneAn unchanging note held under a melody, which gives the tune something to be measured against and never moves itself.