113 symbols beginning with W. Each one is read four ways, and every source is named so you can check it.
- Waiting In LineDreaming of waiting in line often reflects a sense of being held up, of progress stalled while you wait for something to move.
- WinningWinning in a dream often reflects a wish for recognition or success, and sometimes a quiet confidence that you are on the right track.
- Winning The LotteryDreaming of winning the lottery usually voices a longing for sudden relief, reward, or a way out of present limits.
- WagonA wagon often pictures an older, slower way of carrying a load or being carried, progress paced by animal or human effort.
- WaistA waist often points to the middle ground and balance of the body, where one is cinched or free, and sometimes to self-image and how one is measured.
- WaiterA waiter often stands for service, the wish to be attended to, or a part of you that meets others' needs, rather than a literal restaurant.
- WallA wall often stands for an obstacle, a boundary, or a defence, something that blocks the way or keeps things apart.
- WalletA wallet usually points to security, identity, and resources, so notice whether it was full, empty, or lost, and how that felt.
- WalrusA walrus often stands for a heavy, settled presence, an air of old authority, or a part of you that feels both formidable and slow to shift.
- WarehouseA warehouse often stands for stored memory, held resources, or things set aside, what you keep in reserve and out of daily view.
- Washing machineThe machine is reported mid-cycle, and dreamers frequently describe watching through the door.
- WaspA wasp often points to a sharp temper, a sudden sting, or a small but real threat that is best not provoked.
- WatchingWatching rather than acting is one of the more distinctly reported dream positions, and dreamers frequently say they could not have intervened.
- WatchtowerA watchtower exists so somebody can see trouble early, and dreams tend to put the dreamer in it rather than under it: the job is looking, and the f...
- WaterWater in a dream often mirrors your emotions and the unconscious: calm water tends toward peace, rough or rising water toward feeling overwhelmed.
- Water balloonThe water balloon is reported at the moment before it bursts, and dreamers frequently describe the weight of it in the hand.
- Water bottleThe bottle is reported as empty, and the dream is usually about needing a drink and not getting one.
- Water fountainThe drinking fountain in a dream will not produce enough, and dreamers frequently describe bending to it and getting nothing.
- Water gunThe water pistol is reported for the disappointment, and dreamers frequently describe firing it at somebody who does not react.
- WaterbedThe waterbed is reported for the movement, and dreamers frequently describe the whole room shifting when they turned over.
- WaterfallA waterfall often pictures a strong release of feeling or energy, something pouring down with force, whether cleansing, overwhelming, or freeing.
- WatermelonA watermelon often pictures refreshment, summer plenty, and sweetness full of water and ease.
- WaveA wave often pictures a surge of feeling or change rolling toward you, manageable or overwhelming, and a great wave can mean being swept up by force.
- WeaselA weasel often points to cunning, quickness, or a wariness about someone slippery, in your dealings with others or within yourself.
- WeatherWeather in a dream is reported as the whole mood of the thing, and dreamers frequently describe the sky before anything that happened under it.
- WeddingA wedding pictures commitment and union, outwardly or as the joining of two sides of yourself.
- Wedding dressA wedding dress often carries the weight of a role rather than a relationship, and the detail that usually matters is whether it fits, and whose it...
- WeedA weed often stands for something unwanted that grows anyway, a worry, habit, or intrusion that keeps returning where you would rather it did not.
- WeightDreams about weight are reported by people of every size, and they track how much a person is thinking about it rather than anything about their body.
- WellA well usually pictures a source you must lower something into to reach: depth, memory, and what a place keeps that is not on the surface.
- WerewolfA werewolf often stands for a fear of losing control, or a wild, instinctive side of yourself that you keep hidden until it breaks loose.
- WhaleA whale usually pictures something vast in the unconscious, a great feeling, a powerful intuition, or a force too large to take in at once.
- WheatWheat often stands for harvest, plenty, and the reward of labour, the ripened result of growth that is ready to be gathered.
- WheelA wheel usually pictures a turn you do not control: fortune, repetition, and the fact that whatever is on top now will not be.
- WheelbarrowA wheelbarrow often pictures plain labour and burden carried by hand, a load you push forward yourself one trip at a time.
- WheelchairA wheelchair usually points to questions of mobility, dependence, or recovery, so notice whether it felt like a help, a limit, or a sign of being h...
- WhirlpoolA whirlpool often pictures feeling pulled into something you cannot escape, a situation or emotion drawing you down in circles.
- WhirlwindA whirlwind often stands for sudden turmoil or a force that catches you up and spins you faster than you can manage.
- WhiskeyWhiskey tends to stand for strong release, comfort, or escape, and sometimes for the risk of leaning on it too far.
- WhistleA whistle usually points to a signal or a warning you are trying to give or to hear, so notice whether you blew it, ignored it, or could not make a...
- WhiteWhite often suggests purity, clarity, or a clean slate, though it can also feel cold, empty, or tied to mourning.
- WidowA widow often stands for loss, grief, or the strength found in surviving it, or for a part of you adjusting to absence, rather than a literal predi...
- WifeA wife in a dream often reflects a quality of partnership in your life, or a side of yourself, rather than a literal forecast about your marriage.
- WillowA willow often carries a gentle sadness, a tree that bends rather than breaks and is long linked with grief, water, and quiet feeling.
- WindWind often stands for unseen forces moving through your life, change, breath, or pressures you feel but cannot quite grasp.
- WindowA window often stands for perspective and possibility, the way you see out or others see in, and what you are open or closed to.
- WindowsillA windowsill is the narrow shelf between inside and out, and dreams tend to put things on it: objects, birds, or the dreamer, sitting where neither...
- WineWine tends to stand for pleasure, release, and celebration, and sometimes for the loss of control that comes with them.
- WireA wire usually stands for connection or the line that carries power and word between things, so it helps to ask whether it held firm, tangled, or w...
- WitchA witch in a dream often carries hidden power, fear of a controlling figure, or your own untapped strength wearing an unsettling face.
- WizardA wizard often stands for knowledge, hidden power, or a guiding figure, and sometimes for your own ability to shape what happens around you.
- WolfA wolf can read as a threat to face or as wild, loyal instinct, and how afraid you felt usually decides which.
- WombA womb often points to origin, shelter, and the potential for new life, a place of deep safety or of creation, and sometimes to longing or loss aro...
- WonderWonder in a dream usually marks awe before something vast or beautiful, and what stopped you in your tracks is often worth weighing against what mo...
- WoodWood often stands for material once living now put to use, the raw stuff of building and warmth, or the memory of growth turned to substance.
- WoodpeckerA woodpecker often points to persistent effort, a steady tapping away at a hard task, or a signal trying to get your attention.
- WormA worm often points to decay and renewal both, to something working unseen underground, or to a nagging doubt that eats away quietly.
- WoundA wound often points to a hurt that is still open, an injury to body or feeling, and the part of you that needs tending.
- WreathA wreath often pictures a circle of honour or mourning, a ring of leaves or flowers long tied to victory, welcome, and remembrance of the dead.
- WrenchA wrench usually stands for adjustment and the means to set something right, so it helps to ask whether it fit the job or slipped uselessly.
- WrinklesWrinkles often point to age, experience, and the marks that time leaves, carrying both worry over fading and the quiet record of a life lived.
- WristA wrist often points to skill and grip, the supple joint that guides the hand's work, and sometimes to a sense of being bound or set free.
- WriterA writer in a dream often represents the urge to give words to your story, to make sense of experience, or a reflective part of yourself, rather th...
- WaifA word that once meant an abandoned child and now mostly means a thin adult, which is a considerable demotion for a piece of vocabulary.
- WardrobeA cupboard tall enough to stand in, which is the whole reason it appears in so many stories about going somewhere else.
- WhipA tool that hurts without touching hard, and one whose crack is the sound of the tip breaking the speed of sound.
- WhitewashLime and water brushed onto a wall, which brightens a dark room, kills what is growing on the stone, and has to be done again every year.
- WigHair belonging to somebody else, worn either to conceal something or to announce an office, and never for a neutral reason.
- WorkshopA room where the tools are out and the mess is the state of play, which makes it the only tidy-adjacent space where disorder means progress.
- Walkie talkieA radio where only one person can speak at a time, which forces a discipline no other conversation requires.
- WallpaperA decision made by somebody who no longer lives in the house, which the current occupant has to look at every day.
- WoodlouseA crustacean living on land, which means the thing under your flowerpot is more closely related to a crab than to any insect.
- WhistA card game that filled village halls for a century, played for small prizes by people who were mostly there for the company.
- WatchmanSomebody paid to be awake while everybody else sleeps, in one of the oldest jobs there is and one of the loneliest.
- WhiskersNot hair but instruments, rooted deep enough to be wired to the nervous system, which is why cutting a cat's is genuinely disabling.
- WoodchuckA large ground squirrel that digs enormous burrows, hibernates properly, and is famous almost entirely for a tongue twister and a film.
- WrenOne of the smallest birds in these islands and one of the loudest, with a song out of all proportion to a creature that weighs less than a pound coin.
- WarFor a great many dreamers this is not a symbol, and a dictionary should say so before it says anything else.
- WorkWhere most people spend most of their waking hours, and which turns up in dreams less often than the arithmetic would predict.
- WritingThe act of putting something outside your own head, where it can be looked at, argued with and kept.
- WyvernA two-legged dragon, kept alive mostly by heraldry, which means it is a creature that survived as a sign rather than as a story.
- WeathervaneA pointer that shows which way the wind is coming from, mounted where everyone can see it and nobody can reach it.
- WeirA low barrier across a river that holds the level up and lets the water over the top, so it slows a river without stopping it.
- WoodcutterThe figure at the edge of the forest in more tales than any other trade, always poor, always with an axe, and usually the father of somebody.
- WinchA drum and a handle for lifting what cannot be lifted, trading distance for force so that the load rises slowly and the rope moves far.
- WinnowingThrowing grain into the air so the wind takes the chaff, which requires trusting the wind to make the separation for you.
- WimpleA cloth covering the head and neck, leaving only the face, worn by married women and then kept by religious orders after everyone else stopped.
- WatchmakerSomeone assembling a mechanism whose parts are too small to see properly, working through a lens with tools finer than a hair.
- WeevilA long-snouted beetle that gets into stored grain and ship's biscuit, and is the subject of the oldest joke about choosing between two bad options.
- WhelkA sea snail eaten from a paper cup at the seaside, and a relative of the shellfish that produced the most expensive dye in the ancient world.
- WadingWalking into water, where each step is slower than the last and turning back gets harder the further you go.
- WanderingMoving without a destination, which is either freedom or a symptom depending entirely on whether it was chosen.
- WhisperingSpeaking without using the voice, which carries less far and draws far more attention than speaking normally.
- WildebeestA grazing animal whose calves can run within minutes of birth, because the herd does not wait and neither does anything following it.
- WombatA burrowing marsupial with a backward-facing pouch, so digging does not fill it, and droppings that come out cubed.
- WheelwrightA maker of wheels, whose spokes are set slightly out of flat so the wheel is a shallow cone and takes the load sideways.
- WatershedThe line where rainfall divides and goes to different seas, and a word that now mostly means a turning point.
- WatercressA peppery leaf grown in flowing spring water, which is why the wild kind carries a risk the farmed kind does not.
- WallabyA smaller relative of the kangaroo, hopping on a system that costs less energy the faster it goes.
- WagtailA small bird that pumps its tail constantly, for a reason nobody has settled, and which walks rather than hops.
- WaxwingA bird that arrives in numbers some winters and not at all in others, turning up in supermarket car parks to strip the berries.
- WhimbrelA wader like a smaller curlew, which crosses oceans without landing and is told from its relative mainly by the call.
- WisteriaA climber that can live for centuries, and which from seed may take twenty years to flower or never flower at all.
- WarrantA piece of paper that makes an otherwise unlawful act lawful, so the same action is a crime without it.
- WritAn order in the name of the sovereign, and the instrument that produces a body in court whatever the reason for holding it.
- WagePayment for work, from the same root as gage and mortgage, so a wage is a pledge before it is a payment.
- WhiskA tool for beating air into something, so what it adds is nothing at all and the result is entirely volume.
- WashboardA ridged board for scrubbing clothes against, which stopped being laundry equipment and became a musical instrument.
- WardA room of beds, from a word meaning to watch, so the name says the patients are being observed rather than housed.
- WarpThe threads held under tension on a loom, which do not move, and which decide the width and the length before anything is woven.
- WeftThe thread that travels across, over and under, and which is the only part of a woven cloth that actually goes anywhere.
- WagerA bet used to settle an argument, where the money is not the point and being made to stand behind the claim is.
- WickA thread that does not burn so much as deliver, drawing fuel up to the flame at exactly the rate the flame can use it.