135 symbols beginning with F. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- FaintingDreaming of fainting or passing out often reflects a feeling of being overwhelmed, drained, or pushed past what you can hold up under.
- FallingA falling dream usually pictures insecurity or a loss of support and control in waking life.
- Falling In LoveFalling in love in a dream often reflects a longing for connection or a quality you are drawn to, and not always a literal romance with the person...
- False awakeningDreaming that you have woken up, sometimes several times over, is disorienting in a way other dreams are not, because the ordinariness is the whole...
- FightingA fight in a dream usually stages a waking conflict, with someone else or within yourself, and how it goes tends to matter more than who wins.
- Finding a hidden roomDiscovering rooms in a familiar house that should not be there is one of the more pleasant strange dreams, and it usually reads as capacity rather...
- Finding moneyFinding money in a dream is reported more often than winning it, and the feeling attached is usually not pleasure but a low anxiety about whether i...
- First day of schoolBeing back at school as an adult, unprepared and in the wrong place, is one of the most reliably reported dreams among people who left school decad...
- FloatingFloating is flying without effort or direction, and the difference matters. A flying dream is usually about capability; a floating one is usually a...
- FlyingA flying dream usually pictures freedom, confidence, and the wish to rise above what hems you in.
- Flying A KiteDreaming of flying a kite often reflects a light, hopeful mood and the pleasure of guiding something aloft while keeping it on a line.
- Forgetting a nameReaching for a name and finding nothing is a specific and common dream failure, and it usually attaches to the relationship rather than to memory.
- ForgivingDreaming of forgiving someone often reflects a readiness, or a wish, to set down a hurt you have been carrying.
- FaceA face often stands for identity and how you present yourself, your own or another's, and what is shown or hidden in it.
- FactoryA factory often pictures routine, productivity, and the machinery of daily effort, sometimes the feeling of being a small part in a large process.
- FailureFailing in a dream is so common that its absence would be more remarkable, and the reported feeling is usually exposure rather than loss.
- FairyA fairy often points to wonder, small hidden helpers or tricksters, or a wish for magic and change in a life that feels too ordinary.
- FarmA farm often stands for nourishment, patient work, and the cycle of sowing and reaping, the wish for a settled and providing life.
- FarmerA farmer often stands for patient work, tending what will grow, and the rewards of steady effort, rather than a literal field.
- FateDreaming of fate or destiny often reflects feelings about how much of your life you control, a path that seems set, or a longing for purpose in eve...
- FatherA father figure usually reflects authority, protection, and expectation, and how those weigh on you.
- FearFear in a dream usually marks something you feel threatened by, and noticing what the fear was about often matters more than the fear itself.
- FecesOne of the dreams people are most reluctant to look up, and one of the most common. It usually points to what you want rid of, or to something priv...
- FeetFeet often stand for your footing in life, where you stand, how you move forward, and whether you feel grounded.
- FenceA fence often pictures a boundary, what you keep in and what you keep out, the limits you set or feel pressed against.
- FernA fern often pictures quiet, ancient growth and the shaded, secret places of the natural world, modest and self-contained.
- FerretA ferret often stands for a searching, inquisitive drive, a knack for getting into tight places, or a restless hunt for something you want to flush...
- FerryA ferry often pictures a passage between two states, a vessel that carries you across a divide from one shore to another.
- FeverA raised temperature produces some of the most distinctive dreams there are, and people who have had a real fever dream usually recognise the descr...
- FieldA field often pictures openness and possibility, room to grow, the fruits of your labour, or the simple peace of open ground.
- FifteenFifteen often points to a midpoint or a number tied to youth and growing up, three fives or the middle of a month.
- FiftyFifty often points to a halfway mark or a jubilee, a count midway to a hundred, a milestone of release or looking back.
- FigA fig often points to sweetness, fertility, and abundance, and sometimes to what is concealed within.
- FingernailsFingernails often point to grooming, defense, and small details of how you present yourself, or to worry over appearance and control.
- FireFire can stand for strong feeling, destruction, or transformation: warmth and drive when contained, anger or change running wild when not.
- Fire extinguisherA device kept for an emergency that may never come makes a specific dream object, and the reported trouble is usually that it will not work.
- Fire TruckA fire truck often pictures a rush to contain crisis, force gathered to put out a danger that has flared up.
- FirefighterA firefighter often stands for rescue, courage under pressure, or a part of you that handles crisis and protects others, rather than a literal fire.
- FireplaceA fireplace is fire made safe by architecture, and dreams tend to use it for the household rather than for heat: whether it is lit, and who is sitt...
- FireworksExplosions arranged to be beautiful make a strange dream object, and the reported detail is usually the delay between the light and the sound.
- FishA fish often pictures something below the surface of awareness that you are starting to catch hold of.
- FishermanA fisherman often stands for patience, drawing something up from the depths of feeling or thought, rather than a literal catch.
- FiveFive often points to the human scale, five fingers, five senses, and to liveliness and change rather than settled order.
- FlagA flag often stands for loyalty, identity, or a cause you rally to, so it helps to ask whose flag it was and whether it rose, fell, or was torn.
- FlamingoA flamingo often points to standing out with colour and balance, or to poise kept up even on shaky ground.
- FloodA flood is water that has stopped being a mood and become an event. Where water in a dream tends to picture how you feel, a flood pictures being ov...
- FlourFlour usually stands for raw material and potential, the unworked basis from which something is made.
- FlowerA flower usually carries beauty, growth, and the opening of something, whether love, potential, or a brief and precious season.
- FluteA flute usually stands for a clear, breath-borne voice and gentle persuasion, so it helps to ask whether its tune calmed you or drew you somewhere.
- FlyA fly often stands for a small persistent irritation, a buzzing distraction, or a reminder of something decaying or neglected.
- FoamFoam often pictures the light froth left where water meets force, something delicate and short-lived, the airy edge of a deeper motion below.
- FoetusA dream of something not yet born carries whatever the dreamer is actually living through, and the same image arrives to people hoping, people grie...
- FogFog usually points to confusion or a loss of clarity, a time when the way ahead is hard to see and you must move slowly.
- FoodFood pictures need and nourishment, emotional as well as physical, and whether you feel satisfied or lacking.
- FootprintsMarks left by somebody who has already gone make a specific dream image, and the reported detail is usually where they stop.
- ForeheadA forehead often points to thought and outlook, the seat of worry or calm, and the open part of the face that meets the world first.
- ForestA forest usually stands for the unknown, the unconscious, or a passage you must go through, beautiful and disorienting at once.
- FortyForty often points to a long trial or a set season of waiting, a span of testing and change before something new can begin.
- FoundationA foundation is the part of a building nobody looks at until something is wrong, and dreams tend to arrive at it in exactly that condition: cracked...
- FourFour often points to stability and structure, the four corners, the four directions, a solid base you can build on.
- FourteenFourteen often points to a doubling or a step past completion, two sevens or a fortnight, a measure that runs a little beyond the round number.
- FoxA fox tends to mean cunning, adaptability, or someone clever you should watch, including the part of yourself that gets by on wit.
- FrecklesFreckles often point to small distinctive marks and natural character, the particular details that make a face your own, and sometimes to self-cons...
- FreedomFreedom in a dream usually carries a sense of release or open space, and what you were freed from can point to where you long for room in waking life.
- FriendA friend often stands for the qualities you associate with them, such as support, trust, or fun, or for a part of yourself, rather than being a lit...
- FrogA frog usually points to transformation, fertility, or cleansing, the small creature of water and land that changes shape as it grows.
- FrostFrost often points to a feeling that has gone cold, a relationship or a part of life that has stiffened and stilled.
- FruitThe edible part of a plant that exists to be taken away makes a generous dream image, and the reported detail is usually ripeness or the number of it.
- FrustrationFrustration in a dream often marks a blocked effort, the sense of pushing against something that will not give, and what stood in the way is worth...
- FuneralA funeral usually marks an ending you are processing, the close of a phase, a relationship, or an old self, more often than a literal death.
- FurnitureThe things a room is made of make a quiet dream subject, and the reported detail is usually that a familiar room has the wrong furniture in it.
- FanA device for moving air that does not cool it, and, in the handheld form, a tool that was for a long time also a language.
- FawnA young deer left alone on purpose, and a verb for behaving in a way that hopes not to be hurt.
- FeastA meal too large for its occasion, which is the point, since the excess is what marks the day as different.
- Fish hookA barb designed so that what takes it cannot let go, which makes it one of the few tools built entirely around a one-way decision.
- Fish marketA place organised entirely around the fact that its goods are hours from being worthless, which is why everything about it is loud and fast.
- Fish pondWater small enough to see into and deep enough to hide things, kept for the pleasure of watching something you cannot touch.
- FleaAn insect that lives on somebody else and jumps further for its size than almost anything alive.
- Flying machineThe phrase people used before there was a word, which makes it a period marker as much as an object.
- FlypaperA strip hung in a kitchen that works by being visible and disgusting, and which nobody has ever found a pleasant way to dispose of.
- FortA building whose whole purpose is to make attacking it a bad idea, which means it is mostly walls and waiting.
- FountainWater made to go upward, which it will not do on its own, so a fountain is always a statement that somebody could afford the effort.
- FowlThe collective word for the birds a household keeps rather than admires, and one of the last places English still separates the animal from the meat.
- Fly trapA plant that eats animals, which reverses the arrangement so completely that Darwin spent sixteen years on it.
- FurThe one clothing material that is still an argument, and which most people now encounter as something a relative left behind.
- Fighter planeAn aircraft built for one purpose, and one of the few machines whose sound arrives after it has already passed overhead.
- Fast food restaurantA building designed so that nobody stays long, with seating chosen to become uncomfortable at about the twenty minute mark.
- Ferris wheelA ride whose thrill is entirely being stopped at the top, which is the part the machine was not designed to provide.
- FootballA game with almost no scoring, which is why a single goal carries more weight than in any other sport and why the waiting is the experience.
- ForkThe last piece of cutlery to be accepted, resisted for centuries as an affectation and now the one nobody thinks about.
- Fortune tellerSomebody who tells you about yourself using a method that does not work, in a way that is frequently accurate anyway.
- Fountain penA pen that has to be filled, cleaned and used regularly or it stops working, which makes it the only writing tool that can be neglected.
- FerrymanThe one who takes you across and does not stay with you on the other side, and who has to be paid.
- FordA place shallow enough to cross a river on foot, which means it is also the place everyone crosses and everyone knows about.
- FenWet ground that is neither land nor water, drained repeatedly over centuries and still trying to return.
- FalconerA person who trains a bird that could leave at any moment, and whose whole method depends on it choosing to come back.
- FigureheadA carved figure at the bow, facing forward, which the crew believed watched the sea and which nobody aboard could see the face of.
- FlagonA large lidded vessel for carrying drink to a table, sized for a group rather than a person.
- FastingChoosing not to eat, which is different from hunger in every way except the physical sensation.
- ForgingShaping hot metal by hitting it, where the material is workable only for the seconds between the fire and the cooling.
- FifeA small shrill flute pitched to be heard over gunfire, and designed for carrying information rather than for music.
- FemurThe longest and strongest bone in the body, and the one whose breaking meant months of being unable to move at all.
- FragilityBeing easily broken, which is a property of the thing and also a way other people decide to handle it.
- FlintA stone that breaks in curved shells to an edge sharper than steel, and the first material a person ever made a tool out of on purpose.
- FirA conifer whose cones stand upright on the branch and fall apart where they sit rather than dropping whole.
- FletcherA maker of arrows, whose whole craft is in the feathers rather than the point, because the flight decides where it goes.
- FacadeThe face of a building, often designed separately from everything behind it and sometimes taller than the structure it fronts.
- FoxgloveA tall spire of hooded flowers containing a poison that, correctly dosed, became one of the most important heart drugs there is.
- FireflyA beetle that makes cold light in its abdomen, flashing in a pattern specific enough that the wrong rhythm gets no answer.
- FennelA tall aniseed-scented plant with a hollow stalk that smoulders slowly inside, which is why it was said to have carried fire.
- ForesterA person managing a wood on a timescale where the trees they plant are cut by somebody they will not meet.
- FjordA deep sea inlet in a valley cut by ice, so the sea has come inland along a route a glacier made.
- FingernailA plate of dead material pushed out from a living root, which keeps growing and has to be cut for the whole of a life.
- FaunA woodland spirit with the legs of a goat, gentler in most tellings than the satyr it is constantly confused with.
- FullerThe trade that finished woollen cloth by pounding it in water until the fibres locked, using stale urine as the cleaning agent.
- FeldsparThe most abundant mineral group in the earth's crust, which almost nobody outside geology can name.
- FenugreekA seed used in curry powder whose compound comes out through the skin, so somebody who has eaten it smells faintly of maple syrup.
- FinialThe ornament at the very top of a spire or a post, which serves no purpose except to declare that the thing is finished.
- FrockA word that has meant a monk's habit, a labourer's smock and a woman's dress, and now mostly survives in the name of a coat.
- FollicleThe pit each hair grows from, running on its own cycle, which is why hair is shed a little at a time rather than all at once.
- FlugelhornA brass instrument with a wider bore than a cornet, which is why it sounds soft and why it never quite belongs anywhere.
- FrigateA word that has named half a dozen unrelated warships across four centuries, keeping only the sense of fast and useful.
- FieldfareA winter thrush arriving in flocks from the north, which defends its nest collectively by bombarding an intruder from above.
- FreesiaA flower grown almost entirely for its scent, which is strong enough that the blooms are frequently described as smelling artificial.
- ForgeryA copy made to pass as an original, whose success is measured entirely by how long nobody looks closely.
- FontThe basin a child is baptised in, which in many churches is the oldest object in the building by centuries.
- FlatironAn iron heated on the range, used in pairs so that one is warming while the other is working.
- FlailA threshing tool of two sticks joined by a chain, which became a weapon because a great many people already owned one.
- FurrowThe trench a plough opens, and a word that moved to the lines on a face without anybody noticing the transfer.
- FleeceA sheep's wool taken off in one piece, and a verb meaning to defraud somebody thoroughly and leave them with nothing.
- FlushBlood arriving in the face without permission, which makes it the one feeling that reports itself to everybody in the room.
- FortnightFourteen nights, counted in nights rather than days, which is how English measures a stretch when it is not counting hours.
- Filing cabinetPapers stood upright in a drawer instead of stacked, which is a small change that made it possible to find one without disturbing the rest.
- FoolscapA size of paper named after the jester's cap watermarked into it, which is a great deal of ceremony for a sheet slightly longer than the next one d...
- FirewoodWood cut and stacked a year before it is needed, because green wood spends its heat boiling the water still inside it.