The Dreamer's Dictionary

This is a response to the reviews giving low rating for the book being incomplete. I've used this book as a reference for several years, as a student and teacher in the School of Metaphysics, and I'm actually glad it's only as detailed as it is. This book allows room for applying these universal symbols to specific dream context. It also stimulates you to reason and figure out more specific symbols from the general ones. That's why there are often questions asked in the symbol entries. It's important to give some meditative thought to the symbols in a dream and to the larger image that from which they are cut. I've found there's a tendency for beginning dream interpreters to turn dream interpretation into an exercise in listing symbols and meanings without actually imagining the meaning or seeing the connection of the symbol to its meaning. And there's a tendency to just decide that a dream means whatever you feel like it means without understanding how or why, also. I guess this book tries to keep away from either of those mistakes. Really, it's a lot easier with someone to teach you. I do think that it would help to have more examples of entire dreams, their interpretations, and how they reflected the dreamer's waking life, as well as a little more on why the symbols mean what they mean.

When I was a young child I had nightmares constantly. After learning how to interpret my dreams I no longer was scared to go to sleep. The Dreamer's Dictionary written by Dr. Barbara Condronis amazing. It gives you many symbols and their meaning throughout the book as well as ways to learn how to interpret your own dreams or figure out symbols not included in the book. This I think is a must read for anyone wanting to understand their dreams or their life.

This is THE BEST dream interpretation dictionary ever. I have given ten as gifts since I discovered it several years ago -- and everyone who's received it has raaaaaaved about it.The foreward is a must-read, as it builds the credibility for this amazing book. In it, author Barbara Condron describes her passion for defining dream images as something that began in childhood.In Section I, Condron describes that this "will serve as a reference book giving for words of one language, English, equivalents in another, the language of mind. ... For instance, an apple in your dream signifies knowledge, a baby represents a new idea, and a house represents your mind."Not only does Condron define the image "in the language of mind" and give a dictionary definition, but she has a section called "thoughts to consider" that is so right on, it is unbelievable.If you love looking at dream time for guidance in your waking time, this is a must for your library.

Dr. Condron's work is inspired from the desire I have had, as well as all of humanity throughout the ages, to understand what is occurring within myself while I sleep. I once wondered if all the time I was asleep was wasted time that I could better use in more productive ventures. I even began to investigate techniques that would aid me to reduce the amount of sleep that I required. Meditation was one method I investigated for this purpose. The book Dreamer's Dictioary , however, confirmed the idea that I had pondered that perhaps something productive was occurring while I slept, that maybe this was an important function of the mind rather than an outdated hinderance of evolution. I realized that my dreams were teaching me about myself. The insights in these descriptions are the most accurate and thorough I have encountered. I was sceptical at first, but I made the commitment to dive in and see for myself. The only way to know for sure is to begin interpreting your own dreams and the dreams of other

Never before has the science of dream interpretation been made so understandable. I have used this book thousands of times since I bought it about a year ago. The insight Dr. Condron offers from her own experience is invaluable to dreamers, which we all are! I have even used this book to help kids better understand their own dreams.