122 symbols beginning with G. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- GamblingDreaming of gambling often mirrors a waking sense of risk, of staking something you value on an outcome you cannot control.
- Getting ArrestedDreaming of being arrested often dramatises a fear of being caught out, judged, or stopped in something you have been doing.
- Getting LostBeing lost in a dream usually mirrors a waking sense of not knowing your direction, in a decision, a role, or a relationship.
- Going On VacationDreaming of going on vacation often reflects a need for rest, escape, or a change from the routine that has been wearing on you.
- Going To CourtDreaming of going to court often reflects a feeling of being judged, or a need to have something in your life weighed and decided.
- Growing GiantDreaming of growing giant often reflects a swell of power, pride, or pressure that suddenly makes you feel too large for your usual place.
- GalaxyA galaxy usually points to vastness and your small place within something immense, a sense of scale that can humble or inspire.
- GallowsA structure built for one purpose makes a bleak dream object, and the reported detail is usually that it is empty and waiting.
- GamePlaying a game in a dream is usually reported with the rules unclear, and dreamers often say that everyone else knew them.
- Game showA contest with lights, an audience and a host makes a specific dream setting, and the reported trouble is usually not knowing the rules while every...
- GangA group with its own rules makes a distinctive dream figure, and the reported feeling is usually about being outside it rather than being threatene...
- GarageA garage often stands for the means of getting around in life held in reserve, your drive and direction stored, repaired, or waiting to be used.
- GardenA garden often pictures growth, care, and the cultivated self, what you tend and what flourishes under your hand.
- GardeningWork that produces results months later makes a distinctive dream image, and the reported feeling is usually patience rather than labour.
- GargoyleA gargoyle in a dream often pictures a fierce-looking guardian, an ugly face that keeps harm away, or a fear that may be protecting more than it th...
- GarlicGarlic often points to protection, strong flavour, and warding off what feels harmful.
- Gas chamberThere is no symbolic reading of this that would not be an insult. It is a historical fact, and a dream about it is almost always about knowing that.
- Gas maskA device that lets you breathe where the air will kill you is a bleak piece of equipment, and dreams tend to notice the sound of breathing inside it.
- Gas StationA gas station often pictures a pause to refuel, the need to restore your energy before the journey can continue.
- GenieA genie in a dream often pictures wishes within reach, a sudden power to change things, or the catch hidden inside getting exactly what you ask for.
- GenitalsGenitals often point to sexuality, vulnerability, and identity, your sense of your own body, power, or exposure.
- GeyserA geyser often pictures feeling that builds in hidden pressure and then bursts out, a release that comes in sudden surges rather than a steady flow.
- GhostA ghost often stands for something unresolved, a memory, a grief, or a part of yourself that has not been laid to rest.
- GhoulA ghoul in a dream often pictures a fear that feeds on death and decay, a hunger that lingers around endings, or dread of being consumed by somethi...
- GiantA giant often stands for something that feels overwhelming, a person or problem that towers over you, or a power you struggle to face.
- GiftA gift usually points to what is offered between people, recognition or obligation, so notice who gave it, what it was, and how it felt to receive.
- GiraffeA giraffe often points to a wider view, standing tall, or reaching for something high while keeping your feet on the ground.
- GirlfriendA girlfriend often reflects a quality of the relationship or a side of yourself, such as intimacy, security, or worry, rather than a literal statem...
- GlacierA glacier often pictures feeling that has been frozen in place over a long time, slow to move yet powerful, and quietly reshaping the ground beneat...
- GlassGlass usually pictures something you can see through but not pass: a barrier that pretends not to be one, and one that breaks all at once rather th...
- GlassesGlasses usually point to how clearly you are seeing a situation, so notice whether they sharpened the view, blurred it, or were missing when you ne...
- GliderA glider often pictures silent, unpowered flight, staying aloft by reading the air and trusting the currents to carry you.
- GlitterSomething that spreads everywhere and cannot be removed makes a comic and slightly sinister dream object, and the reported detail is usually findin...
- GnomeA gnome in a dream often points to earthy, hidden parts of yourself, a keeper of small treasures, or practical instincts at work below the surface.
- GoatA goat tends to mean surefooted independence and vitality, or a stubborn, appetitive energy, and at times a figure made to carry blame.
- GoblinA goblin or troll often pictures a small but persistent nuisance, mischief, or a nagging fear, something more troublesome than truly grand.
- GodDreaming of God often points to your sense of meaning, authority, or what you hold sacred, and to how you measure your own life against it.
- GolemA golem in a dream often pictures something you made or set in motion that takes on a life of its own, mindless power that may turn beyond your con...
- GolfA game of solitary precision in a landscape makes an odd dream setting, and the reported trouble is usually the ball behaving impossibly.
- GondolaA gondola often pictures slow, guided travel along narrow waterways, carried by another's skill through a place of beauty and quiet.
- GooseA goose often points to loyalty, watchfulness, and travel in company, or to a noisy alarm when something is amiss.
- GorillaA gorilla often stands for great strength held in check, a powerful presence, or strong feeling, often anger, that you fear may break loose.
- GraduationGraduation in a dream often marks a sense of completion, readiness, or moving from one stage of life into the next.
- GrandparentA grandparent often stands for wisdom, heritage, or guidance, or for a quality you connect with them, rather than a literal message about the person.
- GrapesGrapes usually stand for abundance, pleasure, and the fruits of patience, and they carry the promise of wine.
- GrassGrass often pictures the ordinary ground of daily life, growth that comes quietly, and how settled or restless you feel where you stand.
- GrasshopperA grasshopper often points to sudden leaps, living for the moment, or, as a swarm, to a worry that multiplies and consumes.
- GratitudeGratitude in a dream usually reflects a sense of having been given something, and noticing who or what it was directed toward can point to what you...
- GravityGravity usually points to the forces that hold you down or hold you in place, the weight of duty, reality, or what cannot be escaped.
- GrayGray often suggests neutrality, dullness, or uncertainty, the in-between of black and white where things are unclear.
- GreenGreen often points to growth, renewal, or health, and sometimes to envy, depending on the dream's feeling.
- GreenhouseA greenhouse often pictures something tender being nurtured and protected, growth that needs care and shelter before it can stand on its own.
- GriefGrief in a dream usually carries the weight of a real loss the mind is still living with, and such dreams can be part of how mourning slowly moves.
- GriffinA griffin in a dream often pictures combined strength and vigilance, a guardian of something valuable, or a noble power watching over what you hold...
- GroomA groom often stands for commitment, union, or a new role, or for a part of yourself stepping into a fresh chapter, rather than a literal forecast...
- GuiltGuilt in a dream often points to something you feel you have done wrong or left undone, and it is worth weighing whether the charge in the dream fi...
- GuitarA guitar tends to point to self-expression and the wish to be heard, so notice whether it played sweetly, fell silent, or would not stay in tune.
- GumsGums often point to the foundation beneath what shows, the soft ground that holds the teeth, and sometimes to tenderness, soreness, or weakness exp...
- GunA gun often concentrates power, threat, or a decision, the sense of something about to go off, whether you hold it or it is aimed at you.
- GymA gym often pictures effort, self-improvement, and the work of building strength, with all the comparison and strain that can bring.
- GarterA band that held a stocking up before elastic existed, and which survives almost entirely as a wedding custom nobody can explain.
- Gas lampLight that had to be lit and put out by hand every day, which meant a person walked your street twice a night and you knew them by name.
- GasolineA liquid that is useless until it is vapour, which is why the danger is never the puddle.
- GavelA small hammer used to end discussion, and one that in most of the world's courts does not actually exist.
- GemsStones valuable because they are rare, hard and pretty, in that order, and because somebody decided which ones counted.
- GlovesCoverings that let a hand work without being touched, which makes them equipment for cold, for cleanliness, and for not leaving a trace.
- GogglesEyewear that seals rather than sits, which means putting them on is always an admission that something is about to be thrown at your face.
- GongA disc of metal that goes on sounding long after it is struck, which is unusual enough that most of its uses are about marking a boundary in time.
- GooseberryA hairy sour fruit on a thorned bush, grown seriously by people who competed over it and barely eaten by anybody else.
- GownThe word covers a ballgown, a hospital gown and an academic one, which is a range no other garment name manages.
- GramophoneA machine that plays a recording with no electricity at all, turning a groove directly into sound through a needle and a horn.
- GraveA marked place that exists for the living rather than the dead, which is why the arguments about them are always between people.
- GreyhoundA dog bred for one thing over thousands of years, and one of the few animals whose entire body is an argument about speed.
- GrindstoneA wheel that sharpens by wearing away, taking metal off the blade and stone off itself in the same motion.
- GutterA channel that only matters when it fails, and a word that became a way of describing where somebody has ended up.
- GroceriesThe most ordinary transaction there is, and the one most likely to tell you exactly how somebody is doing.
- GeneratorA machine that exists to start when something else stops, and which is therefore judged entirely on a performance it almost never gives.
- GoldfishA carp bred for colour, capable of living twenty years and routinely dying in one, which is a gap that says more about owners than fish.
- GovernmentThe arrangement most people notice only when it fails, and which reaches them mostly as letters, forms and queues.
- GlobeThe only map that does not lie about shape or size, and the one nobody can see more than half of at once.
- GroveA stand of trees small enough to see through, which is what separates it from a wood and is most of why it feels different.
- GravediggerThe person who prepares the hole, works ahead of the funeral, and is usually the only one there who is not grieving.
- GraceSomething good arriving without having been earned, which is harder to accept in a dream than punishment is.
- GableThe triangle of wall at the end of a pitched roof, which is the shape a child draws when asked to draw a house.
- GrottoA cave, or a room built to look like one, made for contemplation or for show, and usually damp on purpose.
- GlenA narrow valley, usually with a burn in it, and a word that survives mostly in place names and in what people expect a valley to feel like.
- GraniteRock cooled slowly deep underground, which is why the crystals are large enough to see, and why it takes so long to weather.
- GarnetA deep red stone named after the pomegranate, because a rock full of them looks like the inside of the fruit.
- GorseA spiny shrub that is in flower somewhere in almost every month, which is the basis of the saying about kissing being out of season when it is not.
- GoldsmithA worker in a metal that never corrodes, so everything made is recoverable and most of it has been melted down more than once.
- GatehouseA building that is the entrance, where the way in runs through somebody's living quarters and past their windows.
- GentianAn alpine flower of an extremely intense blue, whose root is among the bitterest substances there is and was used to settle the stomach.
- GnatA tiny fly, too small to matter individually, which appears in the oldest expression about getting the scale of a problem wrong.
- GalleonA large ship built to carry cargo and guns at once, which meant it did neither as well as a vessel built for only one.
- GunwaleThe upper edge of a boat's side, the thing you actually grip, and the line that decides how much more it can take.
- GazeboA garden building with a view and no purpose beyond having one, placed where the looking is best rather than where a building is needed.
- GypsumA soft mineral that can be scratched with a fingernail, and which becomes plaster when heated and takes any shape it is poured into.
- GlandAn organ that makes something and releases it, which means its whole purpose happens elsewhere in the body.
- GatheringCollecting scattered things into one place, which is most of what work has consisted of for most of human time.
- GlidingMoving without effort or noise, which in a dream is usually reported as pleasant and in nature is a way of not spending anything.
- GreedWanting more than is needed, which requires a sense of enough to be measured against and produces none of its own.
- GibbonAn ape that moves by swinging hand over hand and that sings in pairs, with the two parts learned and fitted together.
- GraylingA river fish with an enormous sail of a dorsal fin, said to smell faintly of thyme, which is where its Latin name comes from.
- GlazierSomeone who fits glass, working with a material that is useless unless it is invisible and dangerous the moment it fails.
- GunsmithA maker of things that must not fail, working to tolerances where a small error is not a defect but an injury.
- GaitersCoverings for the gap between boot and trouser, which exist because that gap is where everything gets in.
- GinghamA checked cotton whose name comes from a word meaning striped, because that is what it was before the checks.
- GinkgoA tree with no living relatives at all, the last of its entire order, and unchanged in form for a very long time.
- GuavaA fruit whose seeds survive being eaten, so every animal that takes one plants the next tree somewhere else.
- GerbilA desert rodent whose kidneys concentrate urine so effectively that it can live on the water in dry seed.
- GimletA small hand borer with a screw tip that pulls itself into the wood, and a word that also describes a look.
- GoldcrestThe smallest bird in Europe, weighing about as much as a twenty pence piece, and the likely origin of the tale about the wren and the eagle.
- GoshawkA forest hawk flown at anything that would feed a household, which is why the falconry lists gave it to the cook.
- GrebeA water bird that eats its own feathers, feeding them to its young as well, apparently to protect the stomach from fish bones.
- GuillemotA seabird that lays a single pointed egg on a bare cliff ledge, shaped so that it rolls in a circle instead of off.
- GardeniaA flower notorious for being difficult to keep, which drops its buds if anything about its conditions changes at all.
- GeraniumThe plant almost everybody calls a geranium is a pelargonium, and the actual geranium is a modest hardy thing nobody photographs.
- GladiolusA flower named after the short sword, from the shape of its leaves rather than anything about the bloom.
- GriddleA flat plate with no sides at all, so nothing can be contained and everything has to be turned.
- GraterA sheet of holes with raised edges, which does nothing but increase the surface of a thing enormously.
- GlazeA skin of glass fused onto clay, which makes a porous thing hold water and is a different material from the pot under it.
- GrenadeA thrown charge named after the pomegranate, from the shape and from the seeds scattering when it opens.