105 symbols beginning with L. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- Locked outBeing locked out of your own home is a small disaster with an outsized feeling, and dreams keep the feeling while usually removing any way to solve...
- Losing a competitionDreams of competing usually end badly, and the reported feeling is rarely about the result: it is about having been watched while it happened.
- Losing somethingLosing something usually pictures anxiety about control, security, and what you value, more than the object itself.
- Losing your keysSearching for keys is one of the most ordinary dreams there is, and it usually reads as being unable to get into somewhere you have every right to be.
- Losing your phoneA modern dream that behaves like a very old one: the panic is about being cut off and unreachable, which dreams pictured with lost letters and brok...
- Lucid DreamingDreaming that you know you are dreaming often reflects a heightened sense of awareness, and sometimes a wish to take charge of your own inner world.
- LyingDreaming of telling a lie often reflects a tension between how you present yourself and what you truly feel or know.
- LaboratoryA room where things are found out under controlled conditions makes a specific dream setting, and the reported detail is usually the equipment rath...
- LabourDreams about giving birth are common in pregnancy and are frequently about the process rather than the child: the reported detail is usually who is...
- LaceLace is reported for what can be seen through it rather than for the fabric, and dreamers often describe the pattern in more detail than the person...
- LadderA ladder usually pictures ascent or descent, progress toward a goal or a step down, the rungs between where you are and where you want to be.
- LadleA ladle in a dream is usually reported in someone else's hand, and the dreamer is more often being served than serving.
- LadybugA ladybug often signals good luck, small delight, or a gentle reassurance that things may turn out well.
- LagoonA lagoon often pictures a sheltered pool of feeling held apart from the open sea, calm and enclosed, a place of stillness ringed by what is wilder...
- LakeA lake often pictures a still pool of feeling, the calm or hidden depth of your inner life, and what lies beneath a quiet surface.
- LampA lamp usually stands for guidance, insight, or comfort in the dark, so notice whether its light was steady, dim, or going out.
- LandLand as a dream subject is usually reported as an expanse rather than a place, and dreamers often know whether it belonged to them.
- LandscapeA dream landscape is often remembered when the events inside it are not, and dreamers frequently report a place they are certain they have never been.
- Las VegasThe city turns up in dreams mostly as a set of ideas about luck and consequence, and dreamers who have never been report it as readily as those who...
- LatchA latch is reported for whether it held, and dreamers describe the sound of it more often than the look of it.
- LaughingLaughing in a dream is reported less often than the emotional weather of dreams would suggest, and dreamers frequently wake to find they were laugh...
- LaundryLaundry is one of the more commonly reported household dreams, and the trouble in it is usually that the pile does not reduce.
- LawThe law appears in dreams as a rule the dreamer cannot quite recall breaking, and the reported feeling is usually exposure rather than guilt.
- Lawn mowerThe mower is reported for its noise and its refusal to start, and the grass in these dreams is usually longer than it should be.
- LawyerA lawyer in a dream often represents the rules you are navigating, the wish to defend yourself or be defended, or a sense of being judged, rather t...
- LeafA leaf often stands for a single season of growth or change, the small living detail that shows whether a thing is thriving or fading.
- LegsLegs usually stand for support, movement, and independence, your ability to stand and to carry yourself forward.
- LemonA lemon often points to sharpness, sourness, and disappointment, and sometimes to bracing, cleansing freshness.
- LemonadeLemonade often stands for refreshment, simple summer pleasure, and making something pleasant out of sharpness.
- LeopardA leopard often points to hidden power, beauty with danger, or a threat that watches quietly before it moves.
- LeprechaunA leprechaun in a dream often points to hidden luck or reward, a trickster side of yourself, or something promised that keeps slipping out of reach.
- LetterA letter usually carries a message you are waiting for or dreading, whether news, a feeling left unsaid, or a connection across distance.
- LibraryA library often pictures knowledge, memory, and the search for answers, the gathered store of what is known.
- LiceLice in a dream are reported with more shame than fear, and the reported detail is usually who else might know.
- LighthouseA lighthouse often pictures guidance and warning, a steady light that helps you find your way through darkness or danger.
- LightningLightning usually points to sudden insight, shock, or a swift change that lights up something you had not seen before.
- LilacLilac often pictures spring nostalgia and first love, a fragrant blossom long tied to young affection and the bittersweet memory of early days.
- LilyA lily often pictures purity, dignity, and sometimes remembrance, a bloom that has long carried both celebration and mourning.
- LimousineA limousine often pictures status and being carried in comfort, travel where someone else drives and you are the one on display.
- LionA lion usually points to power, pride, and authority, your own or someone else's, and whether you command it or fear it tends to be the question.
- LiverA liver often points to vitality and what you process inwardly, the body's quiet labour, and in old belief the seat of deep feeling.
- LizardA lizard often points to an older, instinctual layer of yourself, or to something cold-blooded, watchful, and quick to slip away.
- LlamaA llama often points to patient endurance, carrying a load with calm, or a self-possessed nature that will spit back when pushed too far.
- LobsterA lobster often points to a tough outer shell, slow renewal, or a part of you that pinches when cornered.
- LondonLondon in a dream is usually reported as a route rather than a place, and dreamers often find the geography rearranged without minding.
- LonelinessLoneliness in a dream often reflects a felt distance from others or from a part of yourself, and whether the solitude feels imposed or chosen tends...
- LongingLonging is wanting something you are not going to get, and it is one of the feelings dreams produce most purely, often attached to a place or a per...
- LotusA lotus often pictures purity and awakening rising out of murky water, growth that lifts clean and whole from the mud beneath.
- LoveLove in a dream usually carries warmth, longing, or connection, and the person it attaches to may matter less than the feeling itself and what it r...
- LungsLungs often point to breath and life itself, the steady rhythm that keeps you going, and sometimes to a sense of being stifled or set free.
- LustLust in a dream usually carries a strong pull of desire, and what or whom it reached for may matter less than the wanting itself and what it remind...
- LynxA lynx often points to keen sight that misses nothing, a watchful solitary nature, or a hidden truth you are beginning to perceive.
- Lamp postA fixed point of light on a street, and the thing people lean against, arrange to meet at, and describe positions by.
- LarkA small brown bird that sings while climbing straight up and does not stop until it comes down.
- LeatherSkin preserved by being chemically altered, which is why it lasts for centuries when the animal it came from would not last a week.
- LinenCloth from a plant that has to be rotted before it can be spun, and which improves for decades with washing.
- LocomotiveA machine that cannot steer, cannot stop quickly, and reorganised how everybody in the world understood time.
- LoomA frame that holds one set of threads still so another can be passed through them, which is the whole of weaving and is harder than it sounds.
- LanceA weapon that only works at speed, which makes it useless the moment its rider stops.
- LifeboatA boat kept for the worst day, crewed in most of Britain and Ireland by volunteers who leave whatever they were doing.
- LozengeA sweet sold as a medicine, which is a category confusion the object has profited from for two centuries.
- LumberWood cut into useful shapes and stacked to wait, which means it is a tree that has become a plan.
- LetterboxA hole cut deliberately in a locked door, which is the only breach in a house that everybody agrees to.
- Light switchThe one control in a house everybody can find in the dark, and the one that fails most memorably in dreams.
- LockerA small private space inside a public building, allocated by number, and the only property most schoolchildren have on the premises.
- LocketJewellery designed to hide something, which makes it the only ornament whose real content is invisible to everybody looking at it.
- LoudspeakerA voice with no body attached, addressing everybody present and answerable to none of them.
- LoversTwo people seen as a unit, which is how everybody outside a relationship sees one and almost nobody inside it does.
- LeviathanThe sea-beast that stands for a scale of thing there is no arguing with, whether that thing is an animal, a state, or an ocean.
- LamplighterA person whose job was to walk the same route at dusk and make the street usable, and whose trade was abolished by a switch.
- LoyaltyStaying with something after the reasons for staying have weakened, which is when it first becomes visible as loyalty.
- LychgateThe roofed gate at a churchyard entrance where the coffin was set down to wait for the priest, and lych is an old word for corpse.
- LocksmithThe person who can open what was made to stay shut, which makes them necessary and never entirely trusted.
- LatheA machine that spins the work and holds the tool still, which reverses the usual arrangement and is why it makes things perfectly round.
- LyreA frame of strings with no fingerboard, so every string plays one note and nothing can be bent or altered once it is tuned.
- LuteA round-backed instrument that will not stay in tune, so a player is said to spend most of a life tuning and the rest playing out of tune.
- LarynxThe structure that makes the voice, which sits across the airway so that everything swallowed has to pass a closed door.
- LimestoneRock made of the compressed shells of small animals, so an inland cliff is a graveyard of things that lived in a sea.
- Lapis lazuliA deep blue stone that was ground into the most expensive pigment ever used, so painters spent more on the blue than on their own wages.
- LindenA tree planted along avenues for its scent, whose flowers are gathered for tea and whose blossom drops a sticky fall over everything below.
- LapwingA bird that pretends to be injured and drags a wing to lead you away from the nest, then flies perfectly once you have followed far enough.
- LacewingA green insect with transparent veined wings, whose larvae eat aphids in quantity and disguise themselves with the corpses.
- LeekA vegetable worn as a national emblem, which makes it the only badge of a country that can be eaten in an emergency.
- LentilA cheap pulse that fed the poor for millennia and that a birthright was famously sold for.
- LycheeA fruit that spoils within days of picking, which meant that for most of history it could only be eaten near where it grew.
- LiquoriceA root many times sweeter than sugar, chewed as a sweet and used as a medicine, which raises blood pressure if you eat much of it.
- LimpetA shellfish that returns to precisely the same spot on the same rock every tide, wearing a scar into the stone that fits it exactly.
- LemmingA small arctic rodent whose famous plunge from a cliff was staged for a camera, and which gave English a word for following a crowd over an edge.
- LemurA primate found on one island, named by a naturalist after the Roman spirits of the restless dead because of the eyes and the night calls.
- LigamentThe band that holds one bone to another, which is strong in one direction and does nothing in any other.
- LimpingWalking with the weight kept off one side, which slows everything and announces the injury to anybody watching.
- LarchA conifer that drops its needles in winter, which is the one thing everybody is confident conifers do not do.
- LinnetA small finch named after the flax seed it feeds on, and once caged in enormous numbers for a song people paid to hear.
- LarkspurThe annual relative of the delphinium, named for a spur at the back of the flower shaped like a lark's claw.
- LobeliaA small blue bedding flower whose relatives include species used as medicine, and which is toxic if eaten in quantity.
- LupinA tall spike of a flower that puts nitrogen into the soil, and whose seeds are edible only in the varieties bred free of bitterness.
- LedgerThe book that stays, from a word meaning to lie in place, because it was too heavy to be carried about with the day book.
- LecternA stand to read from, very often carved as an eagle, so the book rests on the wings of a bird that carries it.
- LitanyA sequence of petitions with the same response after each, and a word that now mostly means a long list of complaints.
- LevyA charge raised for a stated purpose, and also the raising of troops, since the same word covers taking money and taking men.
- LeechA worm used for bloodletting for two thousand years, discarded as superstition, and now used again in surgery.
- LaudanumA tincture of opium in alcohol, sold across the counter for a century to anybody, including for quieting infants.
- LintDressing material whose name means scraped linen, because it was made by scraping old cloth until it fluffed.
- LongbowA bow requiring years of practice and a draw weight that visibly deformed the skeletons of the men who used it.
- LeapfrogVaulting over a person bent double, which works only because the one underneath agrees to stay exactly where they are.