44 symbols beginning with I. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- IceIce often pictures feeling that has gone cold or frozen, emotion held rigid, or a situation stalled and unable to move.
- Ice CreamIce cream usually points to indulgence, treat, and carefree pleasure, the sweet reward tied to ease and good times.
- Ice cubeA small piece of frozen water that is disappearing while you look at it makes a precise dream object, and the reported detail is usually the sound...
- Ice skatingMoving fast on a surface that could give way makes a distinctive dream image, and the reported feeling is usually competence and precariousness at...
- IcicleAn icicle often stands for something beautiful but cold, or a hardness that has formed and now hangs sharp above you.
- IcingA sweet covering that hides what is underneath makes a small pointed dream object, and the reported detail is usually its thickness.
- IdolAn image treated as more than an image makes a charged dream object, and the reported feeling is usually unease about whether it should be there.
- IglooAn igloo often stands for finding warmth and shelter in cold or hard conditions, comfort made from the very things that seem against you.
- IllnessBeing ill in a dream is common and is usually about the state rather than a diagnosis: the reported feeling is being unable to do things.
- InaugurationA ceremony that makes somebody something makes a formal dream setting, and dreamers frequently report being the one sworn in without knowing to what.
- IncenseSmoke made deliberately fragrant is one of the few dream objects that is primarily a smell, and dreamers report it more vividly than most sensory d...
- IncestThis is one of the most distressing dreams people report and one of the least understood. It is not evidence of desire, and it is not evidence of m...
- IncubatorA machine keeping something alive that cannot yet live unaided makes an intensely loaded dream image, and the reported detail is usually the glass.
- IncubusAn incubus or succubus in a dream often pictures desire tangled with dread, a feeling of being acted upon at night, or a pressure that visits in th...
- IndiaA country that arrives in Western dreams as an assembled idea rather than a place makes a revealing dream setting, and dreamers usually know their...
- IndigoIndigo often suggests depth, intuition, and the inward or spiritual, a deep blue tied to night and quiet reflection.
- InheritanceAn inheritance in a dream often pictures what you have received from others or an ending that brings a new responsibility, more than money itself.
- InsectInsects are among the more commonly reported dream animals, and the reports are usually about number rather than about any single creature.
- IntestinesIntestines often point to inner processing and gut feeling, the long work of taking in and letting go, and sometimes to what feels twisted or unset...
- IrisAn iris often pictures a message or a bridge between worlds, a tall striking flower long tied to the rainbow and to news carried from afar.
- IslandAn island often pictures separation or self-containment, a feeling of being apart from others, or a place of refuge and independence.
- InspectorSomebody whose arrival is the whole event, and whose job is to see the thing as it is rather than as it is presented.
- InstructorSomebody paid to sit beside you while you are bad at something, which is a stranger arrangement than the lesson makes it feel.
- IntercourseAmong the most commonly reported dream subjects there is, and one that people are least likely to mention to anybody.
- InternetA thing people spend hours a day inside and almost never dream about, which is one of the odder findings in the field.
- IronThe metal that named an age, protects against fairies in half the folklore of these islands, and is the element stars stop at.
- InnocenceA state visible only after it has ended, which is why the dream of it is nearly always set in the past.
- IbisA wading bird with a curved bill, given the head of the god of writing, measurement and the judgement of the dead.
- IbexA mountain goat that stands on near-vertical rock, and one subspecies of which became the first animal declared extinct twice.
- InnkeeperSomeone whose home is a business, who must let strangers sleep under the roof and be pleasant about it every night.
- IsthmusA narrow neck of land joining two larger ones, which is the only way across by foot and the worst place to be by sea.
- ImpatienceWanting the interval to be over, which does nothing to shorten it and makes the whole of it worse.
- IndependenceManaging without relying on anybody, which is generally admired and is usually made possible by arrangements nobody counts.
- IronmongerA shop selling everything made of metal that a house or a farm might need, kept by somebody who knew where all of it was.
- IconAn image treated as a window rather than a picture, and written rather than painted, according to the people who make them.
- IndictmentA written accusation, which had to be found a true bill by a grand jury before anybody could be tried on it.
- InjunctionAn order to stop doing something, which is enforced by contempt rather than by anybody physically preventing it.
- InterestA charge for the use of money over time, from a word meaning to be between, since it sits between the lending and the return.
- InvoiceA demand for payment, which is a statement of what is owed and carries no power to make anybody pay it.
- IngotMetal cast into a bar for storage rather than use, shaped only so that it can be stacked, weighed and moved.
- InfirmaryA room for the sick, which in a monastery was one of the few places the rule was relaxed and meat was allowed.
- ItchA sensation that asks for one specific action and gets worse if it is given, which makes it the most negotiable of discomforts.
- IntervalThe gap between two parts of a thing, which is the only stretch of an evening the audience is trusted to arrange themselves.
- InkwellA hole in the desk with a pot in it, refilled by whichever child had been given the job that week.