80 symbols beginning with E. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- Endless corridorA corridor that keeps going, or keeps returning, is one of the more distinctive dream architectures, and the frustration in it is usually about eff...
- EscapingEscaping in a dream often mirrors a waking wish to get free of something that feels confining, a situation, a role, or a pressure you want behind you.
- EagleAn eagle usually stands for vision, freedom, and high ambition, the wish to rise above and see the whole.
- EarsEars tend to point to listening and what you are willing or able to hear, the messages around you and how you take them in.
- EarthEarth often pictures grounding and the foundation of things, the solid ground you stand on, or the soil where growth and burial both happen.
- EarthquakeAn earthquake usually points to a shake-up of your foundations, when something you relied on as solid suddenly proves unstable.
- EarthwormA creature that lives inside the ground and only surfaces when the ground fails makes a quiet dream image, and the reported detail is usually rain.
- EarwigAn insect carrying an untrue reputation makes a specific dream image, and the reported feeling is disproportionate to anything the animal does.
- EasterA festival about something returning makes a loaded dream setting, and dreamers frequently report the domestic parts of it rather than the religiou...
- Easter eggA hollow chocolate object that is hidden and hunted makes a specific dream image, and the reported detail is usually finding one long after the day.
- EatingFood in a dream is appetite and provision; eating is the act of taking it in, and that is a different question. These dreams tend to be about what...
- EbonyA wood so dark and dense that it sinks makes an unusual dream material, and the reported detail is usually the weight rather than the colour.
- EchoAn echo usually pictures your own voice coming back changed: repetition you caused, arriving later, in a form you did not choose.
- EclipseAn eclipse often stands for something hidden or overshadowed, a time when a familiar light is briefly blocked and the order of things feels uncertain.
- EcstasyEcstasy in a dream carries a soaring, almost overwhelming joy, and what lifted you so high is often worth weighing against what you long for awake.
- EducationA dream about being educated rather than about a specific school tends to be about standing: whether the dreamer is qualified, and who decided.
- EelAn eel often points to something slippery and hard to grasp, a person, a feeling, or a truth that keeps sliding out of your hands.
- EggsEggs usually point to potential, new beginnings, and what is still forming, the promise held in a fragile shell.
- EgyptA country that arrives in dreams as an idea rather than a place, assembled almost entirely from museums and film, and dreamers usually know they ha...
- EightEight often points to renewal, abundance, or cycles, the figure that loops back on itself like the sign for the endless.
- EighteenEighteen often points to coming of age and crossing into adulthood, or to a doubled nine, a long process nearing its full term.
- EjaculationA dream involving a bodily event that can genuinely occur during sleep is unusual, and the plain physical explanation is well documented and worth...
- ElbowAn elbow often points to flexibility and effort, the room you make for yourself, or the small ways you push and lean through daily work.
- ElderlyAn older stranger in a dream is usually reported as calm rather than frail, and the dreamer often remembers being addressed by them.
- Electric guitarAn instrument that needs a machine to be heard makes a specific dream object, and the reported detail is usually that it will not make a sound.
- ElectricityPower running through wires makes an invisible dream subject, and the reported detail is nearly always a failure: a shock, a cut, or something that...
- ElephantAn elephant often stands for memory, patience, and a strength that does not need to prove itself, and sometimes for a large problem you cannot ignore.
- ElevatorAn elevator usually pictures sudden changes in status, mood, or circumstance, a rise or fall you do not fully control.
- ElevenEleven often points to something just past the round number, an excess, a step beyond order, or a new cycle barely begun.
- ElfAn elf in a dream often points to a graceful or otherworldly part of yourself, hidden help, or a pull toward something beautiful and not quite human.
- EmailA message that arrives without warning and demands an answer makes a modern dream object, and the reported trouble is usually that the dreamer cann...
- EmbarrassmentEmbarrassment in a dream usually turns on a fear of being exposed or judged, and the small awkwardness often points to a larger waking worry about...
- EmbraceBeing held in a dream is reported with unusual clarity, and dreamers frequently wake still able to feel it, which is rarer than it sounds.
- EmployeeBeing someone's employee in a dream is about standing rather than work, and the reported detail is usually not knowing what the job is.
- EncyclopediaA set of books claiming to contain everything makes a particular dream object, and the reported trouble is usually finding the volume that covers w...
- EnemyAn enemy often stands for a conflict, an obstacle, or a rejected part of yourself, rather than a literal foe who means you harm.
- EngagementAn engagement in a dream often reflects a real or hoped-for commitment, or the wish to bind yourself to a person, path, or promise.
- EntertainmentBeing entertained in a dream is usually about the watching rather than the show, and the reported detail is often that the dreamer cannot follow wh...
- EruptionA mountain that has been quiet for a very long time and stops being quiet makes a strong dream image, and the reported detail is usually the warnin...
- EscalatorAn escalator often pictures effortless rise or descent, being carried smoothly between levels by a moving step you simply stand on.
- EulogyA eulogy in a dream often reflects how you wish to be remembered or how you are taking stock of a life, including your own.
- EuthanasiaA dream of a mercy death often reflects feelings about ending suffering or letting something go, and it carries no judgment or prediction.
- Ex-LoverAn ex-lover often represents unfinished feelings, a lesson, or a quality from that chapter of your life rather than a literal sign that the person...
- ExcitementExcitement in a dream usually reflects anticipation or a charge of energy, and the thrill can carry either eager hope or a restless edge depending...
- ExhaustionExhaustion in a dream often reflects a waking tiredness of body or spirit, and noticing what drained you can matter as much as the weariness itself.
- ExorcismAn exorcism in a dream often points to a wish to be rid of something that has taken hold of you, a habit, a fear, or an influence you want driven out.
- EyebrowsEyebrows often point to expression and the small signals of feeling, the way a face shows surprise, doubt, or judgement before any word is spoken.
- EyelashesEyelashes tend to point to delicacy and small charms, the fine detail of how you guard and present the eyes, and sometimes to a passing wish.
- EyelidAn eyelid often points to what you choose to see or shut out, the small gate over the eye, and sometimes to rest, refusal, or the wish to look away.
- EyesEyes picture awareness and being seen, clear sight meaning insight and impaired sight something you cannot or will not see.
- ElderberryA hedgerow fruit that is mildly poisonous raw and good cooked, growing on a tree nobody plants and everybody has.
- EmbankmentEarth piled up to hold water back or carry a road across a valley, and one of the few landscape features that is entirely artificial and reads as n...
- EmbroideryStitching that does no structural work at all, which makes it the clearest case of labour spent purely on how a thing looks.
- EngineerThe person responsible for whether a thing actually holds, and the one whose successes are invisible by definition.
- EnvelopeA container designed to be destroyed on arrival, and one of the very few objects whose whole purpose is to make delay possible.
- ErmineA stoat in its winter coat, killed in large numbers to trim the robes of people who wanted to look permanent.
- Extractor fanA machine whose entire job is to remove what a room has produced, and which nobody notices until it is the only sound left.
- EquationA statement that two things are the same, which is not what most people remember school mathematics being about.
- ElopementMarriage arranged to escape a veto, which requires somewhere that will perform it and somebody prepared to travel.
- ElmThe tree that was everywhere and then was not, and now stands mainly in paintings of a countryside that no longer looks like that.
- ExileBeing outside a place you still belong to, which is a different condition from having left it.
- EstuaryWhere the river meets the tide, so the water runs both ways depending on the hour and is neither fresh nor salt.
- EwerA wide-mouthed jug for pouring water over hands, kept with a basin, and used before eating rather than for drinking.
- EavesdroppingHearing what was not meant for you, and the moment of deciding whether to keep listening.
- EardrumA membrane that turns air pressure into movement, and which has to be equally pressurised on both sides or it cannot work at all.
- EquinoxThe two days when light and dark are close to equal, and the only dates in the year defined by a balance rather than an extreme.
- EnduranceContinuing when the reason for continuing has stopped being persuasive, which is different from strength and often from courage.
- ElderA soft-wooded tree with a hollow pith, which folklore forbids cutting or burning more consistently than almost any other plant.
- EngraverSomeone cutting a design in reverse into metal, so the work is never seen the right way round until it is printed.
- EchidnaA spined egg-laying mammal named after the mother of monsters, which feeds its young milk it has no nipples to deliver.
- EavesThe overhang of a roof beyond the wall, which exists so that rain falls clear of the building rather than down its face.
- EscarpmentA long steep face where a whole landscape steps down, running for miles as a single line across country.
- EmbracingHolding another person with both arms, in the one common gesture where neither party can see the other's face.
- EucalyptusA tree whose leaves are full of flammable oil, which encourages the fire that clears its competitors and from which it recovers first.
- EgretA white heron whose breeding plumes were worth more than their weight in gold, and whose near-destruction started bird protection.
- ExchequerThe royal treasury, named after the chequered cloth spread on the table and used as a counting board.
- ElegyA poem of mourning, which began as a metre rather than a subject and could once be about absolutely anything.
- EpochA fixed point that time is counted from, though the word has drifted to mean the stretch that follows it.
- EraA named stretch of time, always named afterwards, because nobody living inside one knows what it will be called.
- EmberThe part of a fire that is doing the work, glowing without flame, and the only part worth keeping overnight.