56 symbols beginning with V. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- Visiting a graveA dream of standing at a grave is usually quieter than people expect. The reported feeling tends to be attention rather than grief, and what is on...
- VomitingVomiting in a dream often points to a need to rid yourself of something that no longer agrees with you, a feeling, an influence, or a situation you...
- VotingDreaming of voting often reflects a sense of having a say, or a worry about whether your choice and voice really count.
- VaginaThe body part appears in dreams the way other body parts do, and the worry people bring to this page is usually about what it means rather than abo...
- VagrantThe word is a legal category rather than a description of a person, and it is worth knowing that before reading anything into the dream.
- ValleyA valley often pictures a low point or a sheltered passage between heights, a place of rest, of hardship, or of moving through to the other side.
- VampireA vampire often pictures something or someone draining you, whether energy, time, or vitality taken, or a craving that feeds in the dark.
- VanA van often pictures carrying a group or a load together, a practical vehicle built for family, work, or moving things along.
- VandalismVandalism in a dream is reported as already done, and the dreamer is usually looking at it rather than doing it.
- VaticanThe place appears in dreams as corridors rather than as a building, and dreamers frequently report being lost inside it.
- VegetablesVegetables often stand for health, growth, and the plain goods of the earth, the simple staples of a sound life.
- VeilA veil usually pictures something deliberately kept from sight: not hidden by accident, but covered by somebody, for a reason.
- VeinsVeins often point to the flow of life and feeling through you, the hidden channels of vitality, and sometimes to bloodlines and what runs in the fa...
- VenusThe planet is reported as the brightest thing in the dream sky, and dreamers frequently say somebody named it for them.
- VestThe vest in a dream is the layer underneath, and dreamers frequently report being down to it in front of people.
- VibratorThe object appears in dreams the way other private objects do, and the anxiety attached is usually about discovery rather than about sex.
- VictimDreaming of being a victim is common and is not a prediction, and the word itself is one a great many people who have been harmed do not want appli...
- Video gameDreaming inside a game is commonly reported by people who play a lot, and the striking detail is that dreamers often know they can respawn.
- VikingThe figure arrives in dreams wearing an outfit invented in the nineteenth century, horns included, which no Norse raider ever wore.
- VillageThe dream village is usually one the dreamer knows with the buildings in the wrong order, and they report knowing whose house was whose.
- VineA vine often pictures connection and reaching growth, the way things spread and bind together, which can feel either supportive or entangling.
- VinegarVinegar is reported through the smell and the wince, and dreamers frequently describe tasting something they expected to be sweet.
- VineyardThe vineyard is reported in rows, and dreamers frequently describe walking between them without reaching the end.
- ViolenceAggression appears in dreams far more often than people expect, and there is no association between violent dream content and violent behaviour awake.
- ViolinA violin often points to deep feeling and longing, so notice whether it sang, wept, or sat untouched in your hands.
- ViperThe viper is reported as small and close, and dreamers frequently describe not having seen it until it moved.
- VirusDreams about infection rose sharply during the pandemic in samples taken at the time, which is one of the clearest demonstrations of dream content...
- VisitA visit in a dream is reported for the arrival, and dreamers frequently report a guest they cannot place who is entirely welcome.
- VolcanoA volcano often pictures feeling building toward a sudden release, anger or pressure held down that may erupt, whether feared or overdue.
- VulnerabilityVulnerability in a dream often marks a sense of being exposed or unguarded, and what left you open is usually worth weighing against where you feel...
- VultureA vulture often points to waiting on an ending, picking over what remains, or a feeling that something around you is dying.
- VaseA container for things that are already dying, kept because the dying takes a week and is worth watching.
- VelvetCloth woven double and cut apart on the loom, so that every surface is thousands of severed threads standing on end.
- VentriloquistA performer whose whole act is that the audience knows exactly what is happening and stops being able to tell anyway.
- VerminA category rather than an animal, and one that has been applied to people often enough that the word should be handled carefully.
- Vacuum cleanerA machine loud enough that using it makes a household conversation impossible, which is occasionally the point.
- VealMeat from a calf, and the one food whose production method most people can describe and would rather not.
- VenisonThe one meat in Britain and Ireland that still comes from a wild animal, and which is produced as a side effect of managing deer numbers.
- VisitorSomebody in your house who is not of it, which changes how everybody in it behaves for as long as they are there.
- ValkyrieA chooser of the slain. She does not fight the battle, she decides afterwards who is taken from it.
- VanityAttention paid to how one appears, and the older sense of the word, which meant emptiness rather than pride.
- VialA very small bottle, whose smallness is the point, because what it holds is either precious or dangerous.
- VertebraOne bone of the spine, shaped so that a stack of them is both a flexible column and a rigid tube protecting what runs inside.
- VestibuleA small room between the door and the building, whose purpose is to stop the weather and the street getting in at once.
- VanillaAn orchid pod whose flower opens for a single morning and, away from its one native pollinator, must be fertilised by hand.
- ValeA broad valley, and a word that survives mostly in place names and in one very old phrase about the world.
- VatA container large enough to work inside, used for dyeing, brewing and tanning, where the process happens by waiting.
- VintnerA wine merchant, whose whole trade rests on the year a thing was made rather than on anything about the thing itself.
- ViolaThe middle voice of the string family, reading a clef nobody else uses, and the standing subject of an entire genre of joke.
- VerbenaA plant that was carried on Roman altars and used to sweep them, and whose old name simply meant sacred branch.
- VetchA scrambling legume grown as fodder and green manure, which feeds the soil and the animals and is admired by nobody.
- VerdictA word meaning truly said, given by people who were not there and are asked to say what happened anyway.
- VestryThe room where vestments are kept, and the name of the meeting held in it, which for centuries governed the parish.
- ValiseA small case for one night away, sized so that the length of the trip is announced by the luggage before anybody says it.
- VigilStaying awake beside something on purpose, which turns not sleeping from an affliction into an offering.
- VellumCalfskin scraped and stretched into a writing surface, which is why documents written on it are still readable and the paper ones are not.