51 symbols beginning with N. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- Naked in publicBeing naked in public is a classic exposure dream, tracking fear of judgment or being found out, often when you feel unprepared.
- NakednessBeing naked usually pictures exposure and fear of judgment, or, read kindly, honesty with the mask dropped.
- NapkinA napkin in a dream is usually reported at the moment it is needed, and the dreamer is often the only person at the table without one.
- NauseaNausea in a dream often marks a sense of something you cannot stomach, and what turned you sick is usually the thread worth following back into wak...
- NavelA navel often points to origin and the first tie to your mother, a centre of the body that recalls where you began and what once nourished you.
- NaziDreaming this imagery is common, means nothing about the dreamer's politics, and is reported more often by people whose families lived through it.
- Near-Death ExperienceDreaming of a brush with death often marks a turning point or a fresh look at life, rather than a warning about your own.
- NebulaA nebula often stands for something forming out of the unformed, a beauty and possibility that has not yet taken shape.
- NeckThe neck often points to the link between head and heart, vulnerability, and how thought and feeling stay joined or come under strain.
- NeedleA needle often stands for a small sharp point that mends or pierces, so it helps to ask whether it was joining things together, pricking you, or ha...
- NeighborA neighbour often stands for the part of life that is close but not intimate, or for a quality you associate with them, rather than a literal messa...
- NeighbourhoodA dream neighbourhood is usually a real one with the streets in the wrong order, and dreamers report the wrongness without being troubled by it.
- NeonNeon often suggests the loud, artificial, and attention-seeking, a glowing colour that can excite or feel garish and unreal.
- NephewA nephew often represents a quality you associate with him or with the younger generation, such as promise or a part of yourself you feel protectiv...
- NeptuneThe planet and the god arrive in dreams as the same thing more often than not, and dreamers usually report water alongside.
- NervesNerves often point to sensitivity and reaction, the fine wiring of feeling, and in common speech to anxiety, courage, or the edge you are operating...
- NestA nest is reported for whether it was occupied, and dreamers usually remember exactly how many eggs there were.
- NetA net usually stands for being caught or for catching, the snare or the safety that holds you, so it helps to ask whether you were gathered up or t...
- NettleA nettle often pictures a small, sharp hurt and a touchy situation, a stinging weed that wounds the careless but also feeds and heals when handled...
- NieceA niece often stands for a quality you associate with her or with the younger generation, such as tenderness or hope, more than the literal relative.
- NightclubA nightclub often pictures a wish for excitement and release, a loud and crowded place where you can be seen or lose yourself in the crowd.
- NineNine often points to fulfilment or the edge of completion, the last single figure before the count begins again.
- NineteenNineteen often points to the last step before a round number, the final stretch of the teens, a threshold about to be crossed.
- NoseA nose often points to intuition and instinct, the sense of sniffing something out, or to curiosity and judgment.
- NostalgiaNostalgia in a dream usually carries a tender pull toward the past, and what you longed to return to often says something about what you feel is mi...
- NuggetA nugget in a dream is reported for its weight in the hand, and dreamers frequently doubt it was real even inside the dream.
- NumbersNumbers in dreams are usually reported as significant without the dreamer being able to say why, and they very often will not stay the same when lo...
- NumbnessNumbness in a dream often marks feeling held at a distance, a sense of being emptied out, and noticing what it shielded you from can matter as much...
- NunA nun in a dream is reported as a presence rather than a person, and dreamers often say she was not unkind.
- NurseA nurse often stands for care, comfort, or the part of you that tends to others or wants tending, rather than a literal medical message.
- NurseryThe nursery is reported as prepared and empty more often than as occupied, and dreamers frequently describe the light in it.
- NutsNuts often stand for hidden value, stored provision, and a small kernel of worth held inside a hard shell.
- NymphA nymph in a dream often pictures a natural, sensual aspect of the self, the spirit of a place, or a beauty that draws and then slips away.
- NewspaperA thing printed to be read once on the day it appears, which is why finding an old one is always slightly unsettling.
- NutmegA seed that produces two spices, and which was once worth enough that people were killed over the islands it grew on.
- NappyThe most ordinary object in a house with a baby in it, and the one that marks the exact boundary of who is willing to help.
- News presenterSomebody whose job is to say terrible things in a level voice, which is the whole skill and the reason the tone is so recognisable.
- Nuclear power plantA building that produces enormous power and enormous dread in roughly inverse proportion to the harm it has actually done.
- NaiadA spirit belonging to one particular fresh water, who cannot be moved to another and dies when the spring does.
- NightjarA bird that hunts at dusk on silent wings and sits along a branch rather than across it, which makes it almost impossible to see.
- NautilusA shelled relative of the octopus that keeps adding chambers as it grows and seals each one behind it as it moves on.
- NarwhalAn arctic whale with a single spiral tusk, which was sold for centuries in Europe as the horn of a unicorn.
- NotaryAn official whose signature makes a document true for legal purposes, holding an authority that consists entirely of being trusted.
- NaveThe long body of a church where the congregation stands, named from the word for ship, so the whole room is a vessel.
- NimbusThe rain cloud, and also the ring of light around a holy head in a painting, which is the same word doing both jobs.
- NickelA metal whose name comes from a mining insult, since its ore looked like copper and gave none, so the devil was held responsible.
- NectarineA peach with a smooth skin, which is not a different fruit or a hybrid but the same species with one gene recessive.
- NuthatchThe only bird here that goes down a tree trunk head first, and which plasters mud round its nest hole to make the entrance smaller.
- NasturtiumAn edible peppery flower whose name means nose-twister, from what the taste does to the face of anybody eating it.
- NoonThe middle of the day, and a word that once meant the middle of the afternoon before the dinner hour dragged it backwards.
- NibA split metal point that holds ink between its halves and spreads under pressure, so the writing gets thicker where the hand pressed harder.