123 symbols beginning with H. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- Having A NightmareDreaming of having a nightmare, or waking from one within a dream, often reflects fear that has built up and is pressing to be felt.
- HidingHiding in a dream often mirrors a waking wish to avoid exposure, whether from a person, a responsibility, or a feeling you would rather not face.
- House on fireA house on fire usually combines two of the strongest images there are: the self as a building, and fire as something that will not be reasoned wit...
- HailHail often pictures a harsh or sudden battering, small troubles or hard words coming fast from a sky that had seemed only grey.
- HairHair tends to picture self-image and vitality, with cutting or loss touching confidence and change.
- HalfA half in a dream often points to something divided or incomplete, a thing split in two, a measure that is part-way and not yet whole.
- HallwayA hallway often pictures transition, the in-between space that connects one room of life to the next.
- HamburgerA hamburger often points to convenience, indulgence, and the easy, familiar comforts of modern life.
- HammerA hammer usually stands for force put to work, building or breaking, so notice whether you used it to make, to mend, or to strike out.
- HandcuffsHandcuffs usually stand for being restrained, caught, or held against your will, so it helps to ask who put them on you and whether you could break...
- HandsHands picture agency and competence: capable hands feel like control, bound or useless ones like helplessness.
- HappinessHappiness in a dream often reflects contentment or relief, and it can be worth noticing what in the dream, or in waking life, the good feeling is a...
- HarborA harbor often stands for shelter and arrival, a safe place to rest between voyages, or the point of setting out into deeper waters.
- HarpA harp usually stands for harmony, longing, and a tender beauty, so it helps to ask whether its music soothed you or stirred grief.
- HatA hat often points to a role you take on or an attitude you put on, so it helps to ask whose hat it was and whether it suited you.
- Haunted houseA house that is not safe because of what happened in it makes a strong dream setting, and the reported detail is usually that the dreamer knows it...
- HawkA hawk often points to sharp focus, a high vantage, or a watchful drive that spots its target from far off.
- HayHay often pictures harvest, provision, and honest labour, dried grass gathered and stored, long tied to plenty laid up and work brought in.
- HeadThe part of the body that thinks and is looked at makes a loaded dream image, and the reported detail is frequently that it is separate, wrong-size...
- HearseA hearse often pictures an ending and the ceremony of farewell, a vehicle that carries something to its final rest.
- HeartThe heart usually points to love, courage, or the emotional centre of a matter, what you truly feel beneath the reasoning.
- Heart attackA dream of the heart failing is frightening and is reported by people in perfect health as often as by anyone else, and the plain medical facts bel...
- HeatherHeather often pictures wild open country and quiet endurance, a hardy moorland flower long tied to solitude, protection, and good luck.
- HeatwaveA heatwave often points to mounting pressure, irritation, or a desire that has reached an uncomfortable pitch.
- HeavenHeaven often points to peace, hope, or relief, and sometimes to longing for comfort, reunion, or a sense that all is finally well.
- HedgehogA hedgehog often points to self-protection through prickliness, a soft creature that defends itself by becoming hard to approach.
- HeightBeing high up in a dream is one of the most physically vivid experiences people report, and the reported detail is usually the edge rather than the...
- HelicopterA helicopter often pictures rapid overview or rescue, the power to rise, hover, and see a situation from above.
- HellHell often gives form to guilt, dread, or a situation that feels inescapable, and to fears about punishment or being trapped in suffering.
- HelplessnessHelplessness in a dream, the sense that you cannot move, speak, or act, often reflects a waking situation where you feel you have lost control or a...
- HerbA herb often pictures healing, flavour, and quiet usefulness, a leafy plant kept for its powers, long tied to remedy, comfort, and homely care.
- HeroA figure who acts when others do not makes a loaded dream character, and dreamers frequently report being expected to be one and knowing they are not.
- HeroinDreams of using are common in recovery, distressing out of proportion to their content, and not a relapse.
- HillA hill often pictures a modest challenge or a vantage point, an effort to climb, or the perspective gained from a little higher up.
- HippopotamusA hippopotamus often points to hidden power, a calm that can turn fierce when crossed, or strong feeling that mostly stays below the surface.
- HipsHips often point to strength, support, and the body's center of movement, and in many readings to sexuality, fertility, and the bearing of weight.
- HistoryA dream set in the past, or about the past, is usually about inheritance: what the dreamer has been handed and did not choose.
- HitchhikingGetting into a stranger's car makes a dream about trust with the stakes made physical, and the reported detail is usually the moment of deciding.
- HIV and AIDSA dream about HIV is nearly always about fear, exposure or stigma rather than about a virus, and the facts have changed enormously since most of th...
- HollyHolly often pictures winter endurance and protection, an evergreen with sharp leaves and red berries long tied to the dark season and to warding of...
- HoneyHoney usually pictures sweetness, reward, and what is gathered with patience, the golden fruit of long labour.
- HoneymoonA honeymoon in a dream often reflects a season of closeness and new beginning, or the wish for a fresh start with someone, more than a trip itself.
- HookA hook often points to something that catches and holds you, an attraction or a trap, so notice whether you were drawn in, hung up, or hooking some...
- HopeHope in a dream often reflects an expectation or longing for something better, and it can be worth noticing what in waking life the feeling reaches...
- HorseA horse often stands for drive and freedom: where it carries you, and whether you hold the reins, tends to matter more than the animal itself.
- HospitalA hospital often points to healing, vulnerability, or a part of you that needs care, the place where what is wounded is tended.
- Hot Air BalloonA hot air balloon often pictures a gentle drifting rise, lifted above the everyday and carried where the air decides to take you.
- HotelA hotel tends to mark a time of transition, a temporary stage in life where you are between one settled place and the next.
- HourglassAn hourglass usually pictures time you can see running out: a fixed quantity, visibly diminishing, that can be turned over but not added to.
- HouseA house is often an image of the self: its rooms and condition tend to track how secure, open, or hidden different parts of you feel.
- HovercraftA hovercraft often pictures travel that floats just above the ground, crossing land and water alike without quite touching either.
- HumidityHumidity in a dream often stands for a heavy, close atmosphere, a feeling or situation that clings and weighs on you.
- HummingbirdA hummingbird often points to lightness, joy in small things, and the ability to hover, shift, and savour the moment.
- HundredA hundred or a thousand often points to a great many, abundance or overwhelm, more than you can easily count or hold.
- HungerHunger is a lack rather than a thing, which is why it behaves differently from food in a dream: it does not need an object. What the dream tends to...
- HunterA hunter in a dream often represents pursuit of a goal, a drive to track down what you want, or a part of you that is on the chase, rather than a l...
- HurricaneA hurricane usually points to a large, sustained crisis, a force that surrounds you and demands you find shelter and ride it out.
- HusbandA husband in a dream often reflects a quality of the relationship or partnership in your life, or a side of yourself, rather than a literal predict...
- HydraA hydra in a dream often pictures a problem that multiplies, a trouble that grows two new heads for every one you cut, and the fatigue of fighting it.
- HyenaA hyena often points to scavenging, mockery, or a threat that travels in numbers and feeds on weakness.
- HandkerchiefA square of cloth carried for other people's tears as often as your own, and one of the last objects routinely handed from a stranger.
- HandwritingThe one thing a person makes that is unmistakably theirs without being intended as expression, which is why seeing a dead relative's still stops pe...
- HarlequinA servant in a diamond-patterned suit who began as a demon, became a clown, and ended up on a biscuit tin.
- HelmetProtection for the one part of a person that cannot be repaired, which is why the rules about wearing it are the ones people argue over hardest.
- HoeA blade on a stick for killing small plants near valuable ones, which makes it a tool of discrimination rather than force.
- HoneysuckleA hedge plant that saves its scent for the evening, because the moths it wants are not out during the day.
- HoodA covering that hides the wearer's face from everybody but leaves their own view mostly intact, which is an unusually one-sided arrangement.
- HopsA bitter flower grown to preserve beer rather than to flavour it, and the reason whole counties smelled of it for six weeks a year.
- HorseshoeA working object that became a charm, and the only piece of luck people still argue about which way up it goes.
- HorseradishA root whose heat exists only after it is cut, because the plant makes the chemical and the weapon in separate compartments.
- HyacinthA bulb forced indoors to flower out of season, which is why its smell means January to a great many people.
- Hanging basketA garden for people with no ground, which needs watering twice a day in July and is usually dead by August.
- Hen houseA building whose whole design is about one animal getting in, which is why the door matters more than anything inside.
- HoleAn absence with edges, which is the only kind of nothing a person can fall into.
- HealerSomebody who offers to make you better outside medicine, in a role that is ancient, sincere far more often than not, and unevidenced.
- HypnotistSomebody who can produce genuine and measurable effects by a method that is not what the stage version suggests it is.
- HatchingA creature breaking out of the thing that protected it, using a tooth grown for the purpose that falls off afterwards.
- HammockA bed that hangs, invented for ships because it stays level while the vessel does not.
- HarvestThe few weeks a whole year has been working towards, decided largely by weather nobody controls.
- HermitSomebody who withdrew on purpose, in a role that societies have variously treated as holy, useful, suspicious and mad.
- Hearing a voiceA voice with no speaker, which is far commoner at the edges of sleep than almost anybody realises and is not a sign of illness.
- HarpyA snatcher. The classical harpies are not killers but thieves of food, which makes them a hunger that arrives from outside.
- HawthornThe May tree. Cutting a lone one is the single most persistent tree taboo in Britain and Ireland, and it is still observed.
- HazelThe wood of divining rods and of the salmon of knowledge, and the shrub that was coppiced for everything before it was mythologised for anything.
- HelmThe position from which a vessel is steered, where the person standing has the least view of anything except where they are pointed.
- HarpsichordA keyboard that plucks rather than strikes, so it cannot be played louder or softer no matter how hard the keys are pressed.
- HailstoneIce that has been carried up and down through a storm repeatedly, adding a layer each time, so it can be cut open and counted.
- HumilityAn accurate estimate of your own size, which is not the same as a low one, though the two are constantly confused.
- HematiteAn iron mineral that is black or silver until it is scratched, and then the streak it leaves is blood red.
- HemlockA large conifer that shares its name with the poison and has nothing whatever to do with it.
- HerbalistA person who knows which plant does what, in a period when that knowledge was the whole of medicine and was mostly held by women.
- HoopoeA striped bird with a fanned crest that raises when it lands, and a nest so foul-smelling that predators leave it alone.
- HelleboreA winter flower that opens in frost and hangs its head, and which the classical world prescribed for what it called madness.
- HorseflyA large fly whose bite cuts rather than pierces, which is why it hurts immediately instead of being noticed afterwards.
- HerringA small oily fish that moved in shoals large enough to build towns on, and that gave English a phrase for a deliberate distraction.
- HaddockA white fish with a dark thumbprint behind the gill, which folklore assigns to a specific finger and thumb.
- HullThe body of a vessel, whose whole job is to keep two things apart, and which is judged entirely by not failing.
- HarmonicaA small instrument that sounds on the breath going both ways, so a player makes music while inhaling as well as blowing.
- HeadlandA point of high ground running out into the sea, which is where lights are put and where ships are lost.
- HakeA deep-water fish barely eaten in the country that catches it and prized in the countries that buy it.
- HalibutThe largest flatfish there is, whose name means holy flatfish because it was the fish eaten on holy days.
- HarmoniumA reed organ worked by the player's own feet, which made a keyboard instrument that needed no tuning and no other person.
- HornbeamA tree with the hardest wood in Europe, used for cogs and mill machinery because it resists wear better than iron did.
- HaberdasherA seller of small sewing goods, whose trade means something quite different on either side of the Atlantic.
- HosieryKnitted legwear, and the trade whose first machine was refused a patent by a queen who thought it would put hand knitters out of work.
- HarebellA slender blue flower that is the Scottish bluebell, and is a completely different plant from the English one.
- HibiscusA flower that opens for a single day and is used, dried, to make a drink that is sharply sour and deep red.
- HollyhockA tall cottage flower that reliably gets rust, which everybody who grows it accepts as part of growing it.
- HydrangeaA shrub whose flower colour is decided by the soil rather than by the plant, so the same cutting is blue in one garden and pink in another.
- HymnalA book of hymns, in which the tunes and the words are indexed separately because either can be swapped for another.
- HalberdA pole weapon with an axe, a spike and a hook, so one shaft carries three different arguments about how to deal with somebody.
- HolsterA carrier shaped so a weapon can be taken out in one movement, where the speed of the draw is the whole design.
- HarrowA frame of teeth dragged over ploughed ground to break the clods, and the source of a word for distress.
- Hay rickA stack of hay built to shed rain, which will heat internally and catch fire on its own if the hay went in damp.
- HayloftA storey above the animals, where the feed is kept, so gravity does the carrying and the heat rising keeps it dry.
- HalterA head collar for leading an animal, which controls a large creature by holding the one part it cannot brace against.
- HankA coil of yarn wound to a fixed measured length, so the word is a unit rather than a shape.
- HamperA large lidded basket, and a verb meaning to impede, because a big basket is exactly what gets in the way.
- HopscotchA grid chalked on the ground, and a rule about where your feet may land, played under a different name almost everywhere.
- HeavinessThe sense of weighing more than you do, which is among the commonest things people report about their bodies in dreams.
- HoopA wheel with the cart taken away, driven along the road with a stick, which was for a long time the cheapest toy there was.
- Hobby horseA horse's head on a stick, and also the subject somebody cannot be stopped from returning to, which is the same object twice.
- HumA sound with no beginning, which is why nobody notices it until it stops and then everybody does.