306 symbols beginning with S. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
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- Saying GoodbyeDreaming of saying goodbye often reflects a parting you are facing, mourning, or quietly preparing yourself to accept.
- ScreamingScreaming in a dream, or finding you cannot, often points to something you badly need to express but feel unable to in waking life.
- SearchingSearching in a dream usually mirrors a waking sense that something is missing, whether an object, an answer, a person, or a part of yourself.
- Seeing your doubleMeeting yourself in a dream is uncommon and strongly remembered. Folklore treats the double as an omen; the research treats it as a recognisable ne...
- ShoppingShopping in a dream often reflects weighing choices, needs, and what you feel you can afford, in money or in energy.
- ShrinkingDreaming of shrinking often dramatises feeling small, overlooked, or diminished beside the people and demands around you.
- SingingSinging in a dream often reflects self-expression and a wish to be heard, and how confident or exposed you feel when you let your voice out.
- SleepwalkingDreaming of sleepwalking often reflects a feeling of moving through life without full awareness, acting while not quite present.
- Someone breaking into your homeAn intruder in the house is one of the more frightening dreams people report, and the fear tends to be about the breach rather than about the perso...
- StabbingDreaming of being stabbed, or stabbing someone, often dramatises a sharp hurt or a charged hostility that feels close and personal.
- StealingStealing in a dream often points to a feeling of lacking something, or of wanting what is not yours to take, in love, recognition, or security.
- SwimmingSwimming in a dream often reflects how you are coping with feelings, with water standing in for emotion and your swimming for how you move through it.
- SaddleThe saddle is reported for the fit, and dreamers frequently describe one that is loose or the wrong size.
- SadnessSadness in a dream often carries a loss or longing the mind is still holding, and what the sadness is attached to is usually the thread worth follo...
- SafeA safe usually stands for what you guard most closely, your secrets or your security, so it helps to ask whether it was locked, open, or broken into.
- SageSage often pictures wisdom, cleansing, and steady health, a grey-green herb long tied to long life, clear thought, and the clearing of a space.
- SailboatA sailboat often pictures working with forces you do not control, moving across feeling by reading the wind rather than forcing the way.
- SailorA sailor often stands for a part of you that travels the deeper waters of feeling, or a restless, adventurous side, rather than a literal voyage.
- SaladSalad in a dream is reported as being assembled rather than eaten, and dreamers frequently mention something in it they did not want.
- SalivaSaliva often points to appetite and the body's readiness, the wet of wanting or speaking, and sometimes to disgust or shame when it spills past con...
- SaltSalt usually points to value, preservation, and what gives a thing savour, and sometimes to a sense of loss or bitterness.
- SandSand often pictures impermanence and shifting ground, time slipping by, or foundations that will not hold under weight.
- SandstormA sandstorm usually points to being engulfed and blinded by circumstance, a harsh confusion that buries the familiar.
- SandwichA sandwich usually stands for everyday sustenance, convenience, and things held between two sides.
- SapSap often pictures hidden vitality, the lifeblood of a tree that flows out of sight and carries growth, energy, and a sticky persistence.
- SatelliteThe satellite is reported as a moving point of light, and dreamers frequently say somebody else pointed it out.
- SaturnSaturn usually points to limits, time, and discipline, the weight of responsibility or the slow lessons of age.
- SaunaA sauna often pictures cleansing, release, and a wish to sweat out tension, a warm and enclosed place of renewal.
- SausageA sausage usually stands for hearty, plain comfort food and the homely plenty of the shared table.
- SawA saw usually stands for cutting through or dividing something, so it helps to ask what was being severed and whether it felt useful or alarming.
- ScaffoldingScaffolding is a structure holding up another structure, temporary by definition, and dreams tend to use it for a life being repaired while still b...
- ScaleA scale usually stands for weighing, judging, or seeking balance, so it helps to ask what was being measured and whether it tipped fairly.
- ScarA scar often points to a past wound that has healed, the mark an old hurt leaves, and how you carry what you have come through.
- ScarecrowThe scarecrow is reported as being looked at rather than seen, and dreamers frequently describe deciding it had not moved.
- SchoolSchool and classroom dreams usually track being tested and judged, often surfacing during real pressure.
- ScientistA scientist often stands for curiosity, the urge to understand or analyze, or a rational part of yourself, rather than a literal experiment.
- ScissorsScissors usually point to cutting something off or apart, a separation or a clean break, so notice what you were about to cut and how it felt.
- ScooterA scooter often pictures light, nimble, small-scale movement, a quick and informal way to get about under your own steering.
- ScorpionA scorpion often points to a hidden sting, a small but real danger, or a betrayal that strikes when least expected.
- ScrapbookThe scrapbook is reported for a page the dreamer cannot turn back to, and the contents are usually not what they expected.
- ScrapyardA place where things go to be taken apart makes a specific dream setting, and the reported detail is usually recognising something still usable.
- ScrewA screw often points to what holds a thing together or the small fix a situation needs, so notice whether it gripped firm or came loose.
- ScrollA scroll in a dream is reported as being unrolled, and dreamers frequently say the writing was in a language they could read anyway.
- SeagullA seagull often points to freedom near the edges, scavenging where land meets sea, or a restless drifting on the wind.
- SealA seal often points to the play of feeling, a graceful move between depth and daylight, or a longing to belong in two worlds at once.
- SeaweedSeaweed often pictures the hidden, tangled depths and what the tide brings in, a sea plant tied to the unconscious, the murky, and things that cling.
- SeedA seed often pictures potential, a beginning held in small form, something not yet grown but already alive with possibility.
- SellingSelling in a dream is reported for the pitch rather than the sale, and dreamers frequently describe not knowing what they were selling.
- Serial killerThe figure appears in dreams to people with no connection to any such thing, and it is a media figure in dreams far more often than a personal one.
- SevenSeven often points to luck, mystery, or a cycle complete, a number that has long felt charged with meaning across many cultures.
- SeventeenSeventeen often points to an odd, in-between figure, one past the ordered sixteen and short of the round score, a number that can feel unsettled.
- SewageSewage in a dream is reported for the rising rather than the substance, and dreamers frequently describe trying to stop it.
- SewingSewing in a dream is reported through the hands, and dreamers frequently describe a thread that will not go through the needle.
- ShadowA shadow usually pictures the part of yourself you do not claim: what follows you, what you cannot shake off, and what you would rather not look at...
- ShakingShaking in a dream is reported as involuntary and specific, and dreamers frequently say the rest of them was calm.
- ShamanA shaman in a dream often pictures a healer or guide between worlds, a part of you that mediates the unseen, or a call toward deeper knowing.
- ShameShame in a dream often turns on how you fear you are seen, and noticing who the witness is, or whether there is one, can tell you a great deal.
- ShampooShampoo is reported for the lather and for the water, and the dream frequently has the dreamer unable to rinse it out.
- ShapesAbstract shapes in dreams are reported more often than most people expect, and dreamers frequently say there was nothing else in the dream at all.
- ShapeshifterA shapeshifter in a dream often pictures someone or something you cannot pin down, a shifting identity, or a fear that what you trust may not be wh...
- SharkA shark often pictures a hidden threat or an overwhelming feeling moving beneath the surface, whether fear, anger, or a person who feels predatory.
- SheepA sheep often points to belonging, innocence, or following the crowd, gentleness on one side and a loss of one's own direction on the other.
- ShelterTaking shelter is reported for the sound outside rather than the space inside, and dreamers frequently say others were already there.
- ShipA ship usually stands for a larger journey or undertaking, whether a venture, a life's voyage, or the carrying of many concerns at once.
- ShirtA shirt in a dream is reported as wrong, and the wrongness is usually specific: a missing button, the wrong colour, somebody else's.
- ShoesShoes usually point to your stance and your readiness to move, so it helps to ask whether they fit, where they were taking you, or whether you went...
- ShootingFiring rather than being fired at is a distinct dream and is reported with a specific detachment, and dreamers frequently say the gun made no noise.
- ShotgunThe shotgun is reported for the weight and the breaking open, and dreamers frequently describe checking whether it was loaded.
- ShouldersShoulders often point to strength and responsibility, what you bear for yourself and others, and how heavy the load has become.
- ShovelA shovel often points to digging in, uncovering, or burying something, so notice whether the work felt like labour, discovery, or a covering over.
- ShowerThe shower is reported for the water and for interruption, and dreamers frequently describe somebody coming in.
- SilenceSilence usually pictures an absence that is doing something: not the lack of sound, but a withholding that everybody present can hear.
- SilkSilk is reported through the hands, and dreamers frequently describe it moving when they did not.
- SiloA silo is a tall container for something stored against a future need, and dreams tend to use it for accumulation: what has been put by, and whethe...
- SilverSilver often suggests the reflective and the moonlit, a cool, bright colour tied to intuition, value, and quiet clarity.
- SinkholeA sinkhole often pictures ground that gives way without warning, the fear that something solid is hollow beneath, and the sudden loss of footing.
- SinkingSinking is reported as slow, and dreamers frequently say they did not struggle.
- SirenA siren in a dream often pictures a temptation that promises delight but leads toward danger, or a pull you find hard to resist against your better...
- SisterA sister often represents a quality you associate with her or with sisterhood itself, such as rivalry, closeness, or a side of your own nature, rat...
- SixSix often points to harmony and work done, the days of labour before rest, or a sense of balance between giving and taking.
- SixteenSixteen often points to youth on the edge of adulthood, or to a doubled and redoubled order, four fours brought to a fuller square.
- SkeletonA skeleton usually brings mortality or what is left bare to the foreground, the underlying structure of a thing or a reminder of the end.
- SkinSkin often pictures the boundary between you and the world, whether protection, exposure, or what you show on the surface.
- Skipping ropeA rope turned in a rhythm somebody else controls makes a particular dream image, and the reported trouble is usually the timing of getting in.
- SkullA skull tends to bring mortality to the foreground, an ending, a memento of death, or a confrontation with what outlasts the living.
- SkunkA skunk often stands for a strong reaction kept in reserve, a fear of giving off the wrong impression, or a warning you would rather others heed.
- SkyThe sky often stands for your outlook, your sense of possibility, or the wider mood that hangs over everything in the dream.
- SkyscraperA skyscraper often stands for ambition, achievement, and the heights you aim for, along with the vertigo of how far there is to fall.
- SledA sled often pictures gliding downhill with little control, carried by the slope and the season as much as by your own effort.
- SleepingDreaming that you are asleep is reported often enough to be its own category, and dreamers frequently report waking inside the dream into another one.
- Sleeping bagThe sleeping bag is reported for the confinement, and dreamers frequently describe being unable to get the zip open.
- SleetSleet usually stands for a cold, miserable patch that is neither one thing nor another, a difficulty that wears at you rather than strikes.
- SleighA sleigh often pictures festive or fated travel over snow, a journey wrapped in ceremony, memory, or the turning of the year.
- SlideThe slide is reported from the top, and dreamers frequently say they could not stop once they had started.
- SlothA sloth often points to a need to slow right down, a sense of being stuck, or a quiet permission to move at your own pace.
- SmellSmell is reported in a small minority of dreams and is remembered with unusual force when it happens, which is one of the more interesting asymmetr...
- SmogSmog usually points to confusion or contamination, a sense that something has clouded the air around a situation.
- SmokeSmoke often pictures the sign of something burning out of sight, a warning, a clouding of clarity, or the trace that fire leaves on the air.
- SmoothieA smoothie usually points to nourishment, health, and the blending of good things into one easy whole.
- SnailA snail often stands for slowness, vulnerability, and carrying your protection with you, for better or worse.
- SnakeA snake can mean a fear or threat, a change or renewal, or hidden wisdom, and which one usually depends on how it made you feel.
- SnowSnow often brings stillness and a clean slate, but also coldness, isolation, or feelings put on ice.
- SnowflakeThe single flake is reported held rather than falling, and dreamers frequently describe watching it not melt.
- SnowmobileA snowmobile often pictures fast, powered travel across cold and open country, cutting your own line through a blank landscape.
- SoapSoap in a dream is reported as slipping, and dreamers frequently describe washing that will not finish.
- SocietySociety in a dream usually pictures the watching group: rules you did not agree to, applied by people whose faces you cannot quite see.
- SocksSocks in a dream are reported as odd, wet or missing, and the dreamer is frequently the only person who has noticed.
- SodaSoda usually pictures quick, fizzy pleasure and the small treats of everyday life, sometimes the empty kind.
- SoldierA soldier often stands for discipline, conflict, or a struggle you are facing, or for the part of you that fights and defends, rather than a litera...
- SonA son in a dream often stands for a quality you link with him or with sonhood, such as hope, responsibility, or your own younger self, rather than...
- SoulThe soul in a dream often points to your inmost self, what feels most truly you, or questions about meaning, identity, and what endures.
- SoupSoup often stands for comfort, healing, and care, the warm and simple food given when one is low.
- SpaA spa often stands for self-care, rest, and the wish to be restored, a place set apart for tending to yourself.
- SpaceSpace in a dream is reported as silent, and dreamers frequently say they could breathe and did not find that strange.
- SparrowA sparrow often points to the small and ordinary, to humble company, or to the worth of things easily overlooked.
- SphinxA sphinx in a dream often pictures a riddle you must answer, a guardian at a threshold, or a question about yourself that blocks the way forward.
- SpiderA spider can mean feeling trapped or manipulated, or the weaving of fate and creative work, depending on the web you are in.
- SpiralThe spiral is reported as a movement rather than a shape, and dreamers frequently say they were going round and inward at once.
- Spiral staircaseA spiral staircase turns you as you climb it, so you cannot see where it ends, and dreams tend to use it for progress that offers no view of its ow...
- SpireA spire is architecture pointing at something, and dreams tend to use it for direction and distance: it is the thing seen from far away, and rarely...
- SplinterThe splinter is reported for the search rather than the pain, and dreamers frequently describe being unable to find it.
- SpringA spring often pictures a fresh source rising from below, renewal, healing, or feeling that wells up clean from a hidden depth.
- SpyThe spy in a dream is more often the dreamer than another person, and the reported feeling is of maintaining something rather than discovering it.
- SquareThe square in a dream is reported as a room, a shape or a place at once, and dreamers frequently cannot say which they meant.
- SquirrelA squirrel often points to foresight and gathering, or to a scattered, restless energy that flits from one thing to the next.
- StadiumA stadium often points to performance under many eyes, the pull of the crowd, and the wish to win or the fear of being judged in public.
- StairsStairs picture progress and change of level, climbing toward effort and aspiration, descending toward what lies beneath.
- StarlingA starling often stands for belonging to a crowd, the pull of collective movement, or a beauty that appears only when many act as one.
- StarsStars usually point to hope, guidance, or far-off aims, the lights you steer by when the way is dark.
- StatueA statue usually stands for something fixed, honoured, or frozen in place, so notice whether it felt grand, cold, or unnervingly alive.
- SteamSteam often pictures feeling that has turned to vapor, energy rising and dispersing, something once held now escaping into the air.
- StepfatherA stepfather often stands for mixed feelings about authority and acceptance, or a fathering role that feels new or tested, rather than a literal pe...
- StepmotherA stepmother in a dream often represents mixed feelings about care and authority, or a side of the maternal role that feels unfamiliar or tested, r...
- StomachA stomach often points to appetite, digestion, and what you can take in or stomach, whether food, feeling, or hard news.
- StoningThis is an execution method still in use in a small number of jurisdictions, and dreams of it are reported by people who have only ever read about it.
- StoolThe stool is reported for its instability, and dreamers frequently describe sitting on one that is too high.
- StorageA storage unit in a dream is reported as full of things the dreamer does not recognise, and the reported feeling is obligation rather than curiosity.
- StoreA store often pictures choice, value, and what you feel you can or cannot have, the marketplace of desires and means.
- StormA storm usually pictures upheaval, anger, or anxiety gathering, a force outside your control that may clear the air once it passes.
- StrangerA stranger often pictures the unfamiliar, in your situation or in yourself, met as either threat or possibility.
- StreamA stream often pictures the gentle, ongoing flow of life or feeling, a sense of things moving along at a manageable, natural pace.
- StressStress dreams are the ordinary kind, and the reported content is nearly always a task that will not complete rather than anything frightening.
- SubmarineA submarine often pictures moving through the depths of feeling while sealed off and hidden, exploring what lies far below the surface.
- SubwayA subway often pictures travel through what lies below, a fast hidden route under the surface of daily life.
- SummerSummer in a dream is reported through light and heat rather than through a date, and dreamers frequently say it was a summer from childhood.
- SunThe sun often pictures energy, clarity, and optimism, the conscious power that rules the day.
- SunflowerA sunflower often pictures warmth, loyalty, and turning toward the light, a tall bright bloom tied to optimism and steady devotion.
- SunriseA sunrise is not the sun. The sun is a presence and a sunrise is a beginning, and it tends to arrive in dreams at the point where something has jus...
- SunsetA sunset usually points to an ending or a winding-down, a beautiful close to a chapter, tinged with rest and sometimes with loss.
- SupernovaA supernova usually points to a violent ending that is also a release, a thing destroying itself in a burst of light.
- SurpriseSurprise in a dream usually marks the moment something arrives that you did not expect, and what broke the pattern is often worth more attention th...
- SushiSushi usually stands for refinement, careful craft, and pleasure in something precise and a little daring.
- SuspicionSuspicion in a dream often marks a sense that something is not as it seems, and what you doubted is usually worth weighing against waking unease.
- SwampA swamp often pictures feeling bogged down or stuck, a murky situation where progress is slow and the footing is uncertain.
- SwanA swan often signals grace, transformation, or a beauty that emerges after an awkward or hidden beginning.
- SweatSweat often points to effort, fear, or strain, the body's response to hard work or pressure, and what you are exerting yourself over.
- SwingThe swing is reported at the top of the arc, and dreamers frequently describe the moment of weightlessness rather than the motion.
- SwordA sword tends to mean decision, conflict, and the power to cut through, truth and force together, depending on whether you wield it or face it.
- SaffronThree threads from the middle of a crocus, picked by hand at dawn, which is why it costs more by weight than gold.
- SalmonA fish that returns to the exact stream it hatched in, apparently by smell, and then dies there having spawned.
- SceptreA decorated stick that means authority, and which works only because everybody in the room has agreed in advance that it does.
- School teacherThe adult who is not a parent and not a friend, and the first stranger most people are required to satisfy.
- SculptorSomebody who works by removal rather than addition, so that everything they do is permanent the moment it is done.
- ScytheA tool used standing upright with a level swing, which is why using one well looks unhurried and using one badly is exhausting.
- SeaportA town whose whole shape was decided by where ships could safely stop, and which usually knows more about elsewhere than the country behind it.
- ShawlA rectangle of cloth with no fastening and no shape, which makes it the most adaptable garment there is and the hardest to keep on.
- SheafCut stalks tied into a bundle and stood upright in the field to dry, which is a shape almost nobody under fifty has seen in real life.
- ShroudThe last thing a body is dressed in, made without pockets, which is the point of the saying about what you can take with you.
- SlaughterhouseThe building that stands between an animal and a meal, deliberately sited where nobody has to see it.
- SlipperA shoe with no fastening, worn only where you are already safe, which makes it the most domestic object anybody owns.
- SpiceFlavour that keeps, which is why a handful of dried seeds and barks reorganised world trade and several empires.
- Spider webA structure built fresh most nights and eaten by its maker at dawn, so almost every one you walk into was made in the last few hours.
- SpongeAn animal with no organs, no nervous system and no symmetry, which people have bathed with for thousands of years without noticing it was ever alive.
- SpoonThe first tool most people ever use and often the last, which gives it a range no other object in a kitchen has.
- SpurA point worn at the heel to make an animal move, and one of the few tools whose use is now regulated by rule books rather than by the person wearin...
- SquallWind that arrives suddenly, does its damage and goes, which makes it the most dangerous weather precisely because it does not last.
- StingAn injury small enough to be trivial and sharp enough to be remembered, delivered by something that usually dies for it.
- StockingA close-fitting leg covering that was ordinary for both sexes for centuries, became women's wear, and then became a shortage worth queueing for.
- SurgeonA doctor who treats by cutting, and who for centuries was ranked below physicians because the work was done with the hands.
- SwallowA bird that returns to the same barn from another continent, and which people watched for centuries without knowing where it went.
- StillbirthOne of the hardest dreams there is, and one that is far commoner in pregnancy and after loss than anybody is told.
- Spinning topA toy that is only stable while it is moving, which is a piece of physics children learn with their hands before anybody explains it.
- School busA moving room with no adult supervision except a driver facing away, which is where a great many people learned how groups work.
- SpeedboatA boat built for a sensation rather than a destination, and one of the few vehicles that is louder inside than out.
- Shopping trolleyA container that makes you buy more by being bigger than you need, and the only vehicle most people steer badly in public.
- SalesmanSomebody whose income depends on your decision, which is a relationship both parties understand and neither mentions.
- SandcastleSomething built by people who know exactly when the sea is coming, and who build it anyway and often build it near the water on purpose.
- ShepherdA job that is mostly walking, counting and waiting, and which supplies more religious metaphor than any other trade.
- ShieldThe only weapon that is entirely defensive, and the one that works best when several people hold theirs in a line.
- Shopping mallA private space that behaves like a public one, with no clocks, no windows and no obvious way out.
- SingerSomebody whose instrument is inside their body, which means they cannot put it down, service it, or replace it.
- SludgeWhat settles at the bottom of a process, and the part of every industry that nobody puts in the brochure.
- Smoke alarmThe one safety device in a house that announces its own failure, which is why the sound of a dying battery at three in the morning is universal.
- SoftwareInstructions with no physical existence, which is why it is the only thing people own that can stop working without changing.
- Solar panelA machine with no moving parts that turns light directly into electricity, which is a stranger fact than its ordinariness suggests.
- SundialA clock that is right about the sun and wrong about the time, and which stops entirely when the weather turns.
- SupermarketA building most people enter several times a week and could not describe, laid out by people who have studied exactly how they walk through it.
- StagecoachPublic transport that ran in stages between inns, changing horses at each, which is where the word timetable begins to mean anything.
- StoveA fire in a box, which is what separates it from a hearth and is why it warms a room ten times as efficiently.
- SawingCutting by removing a line of material rather than splitting it, which is why the width of the blade matters and why sawdust exists.