Dream Dictionary Expands Again
Today’s new symbols added to the Curious Dreamer Dream Dictionary include:
- platypus
- stilts
- loud
- soft (sound)
- soft (pliable)
- soft (squishy)
- increasing
- decreasing
- messenger
- representative
- changing
These were all taken from the top suggestions among our readers, among the symbols searched for but not found. Every time you search for a symbol that isn’t yet in our dictionary, it automatically gets added to our dream symbol request list.
Book Review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams
This book is an excellent starting place for anyone wanting an overview of dreams and sleep. And it’s a fun read, to boot! Presented in an easy-to-browse format, the content is generously sprinkled with graphics and other visuals, making it that much more entertaining and engaging.
In Lynn Robinson’s illuminating foreword, she talks about the process of how her dreams led her to write specific books that have been successfully published. The main content of the book is well organized into the following sections:
What are Dreams?
- Are You Dreaming?
- Dream Weavers: Dreams and Vision Quests of the Past
- To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
- What Psychology Teaches Us About Dreams
- Waking Up to Dream Messages
What Are You Dreaming About?
- Up in the Air: Dreams About Flying…and Falling
- Weighing Worth: Dreams About Money and Value
- The Thrill of Success, the Agony of Defeat: Dreams About Making the Grade
- Head to Toe: Dreams About the Body
- Dream Lovers: Dreams About Sex
- The Art of Losing: What Was Lost is Found
Decoding Your Dreams
- What a Nightmare!
- Learning from Signal Dreams
- The Language of Dreams: Wordplay and Numbers
- Visual Metaphors: Dream Pictures
Dreaming Through the Life Cycle
- Kids! Dreams of Children and Adolescents
- Grown-Up Dreams
- Mixing Memory with Desire: Maturity and Dreams
Dreams and Clairvoyance
- ESP, Precognition, and Prophecy
- Spirit Communication in Dreams
- Going Out of Your Body: Lucid Dreams
Recalling and Recording Your Dreams
- Dream Time!
- Keeping a Dream Journal
- Asking Your Dreams to Help You
- Dream Groups and Role-Playing: All the World’s a Stage
- Unleashing the Creative Power of Dreams
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New Additions to the Curious Dreamer Glossary
The glossary has just been expanded to include the following new dream-related terms:
We’d love to hear some more ideas from our readers. If you would like to suggest new dream-related terms for the glossary, click here to email them to us.
Over 14,000 Symbols Now Defined in the Dream Dictionary
The Curious Dreamer Dream Dictionary now has broken the 14,000 mark! By popular demand, the latest dream symbols defined include:
Whenever you search for a dream symbol and the meaning is not found, your symbol gets added to our symbol wish list. So keep searching, and keep the good suggestions coming!
2008 Student Dream Research Awards Competition Announced
Attention dream students! The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) has announced that their Student Research Award program will be extended into 2008. The awards will be given as follows:
“As in previous years, there will be two $500 awards. The first is for the best student submission of original scientific research on dreams and dreaming. The second is for the best submission of original historical, literary, artistic, or theoretical research.”
Participants must send their presentations by April 15, 2008. For more details about participating:
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/
exhibitions/sleepinganddreaming/WTD037129.htm
More Symbols Added to the Dream Dictionary
Thanks to the great dream symbol ideas entered by our readers, the following symbols have now been added to our dream dictionary:
Remember, every time you search for a symbol and the meaning is not found, your symbol is added to our list of possible new symbols.
Participate in Dream Research
Calling all dreamers! You could be a participant in new dream research currently underway. The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) lists a number of dream research studies looking for participants on the following page:
http://www.asdreams.org/research/research_idx.htm
The dream research topics listed are varied and intriguing. Some studies request accounts of certain types of dreams, while others request other specific types of participation.
The IASD’s Research Requests and Resources page contains additional dream research-related information. Visit http://www.asdreams.org/subidxprojectsresearch.htm for resources such as:
- Dream research study results
- Dream research grants
- Create a page for or publishing dream research through IASD (they provide web space for any member conducting research)
- Research issues and ethics
How to Use Dreams to Solve Work Problems
Many people purposefully defer problem solving to sleep time, using dreams and the subconscious as a powerful tool in difficult situations. Some reported examples include Paul McCartney waking up with the words to Yesterday in his head and Robert Luis Stevenson dreaming of the main themes of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before writing the book.
In a lengthy and detailed article in The Globe and Mail, author Randi Chapnik Myers explores this concept with practical advice, primary sources and examples of dream interpretation as pertaining to work life.
From: The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
LAC.20080220.CADREAM20/TPStory/Business
Latest Developments on the Dream Dictionary
Our visitors have been searching for a lot of interesting dream symbols lately, and in response we’ve added 19 more symbols to our dream dictionary:
- assistant
- caravan
- cargo
- cart
- chalk or chalkboard
- expensive
- firefighting
- firefly
- group
- hut
- insurance
- napkin
- overdose
- privacy
- scab
- security
- slide
- specific direction
- steam
Also, the following item was added to the dream glossary:
This brings the total number of dream symbols defined to 13,781.
Of course, we look forward to more good suggestions from all of you curious dreamers. Each time you search for a dream symbol and no meaning is found, it gets added to our list of most requested symbols. So keep up the searching. Happy dreaming!
Dreaming of Your Soulmate
Being human can be difficult. We have corporeal limitations and too real desires to achieve in our too brief time on Earth. How many evenings alone are spent thinking about why we are given the base need for companionship and the lack thereof? For those of us fortunate to have found our counterpart in the wisp of time we live, some of those quiet times are filled with the thought thread of, “Why did I find my soulmate when others did not?.”
The American Chronicle has run a short article on this subject. It voices some thoughts on how to spend your sleeping time to satisfy this need and desire. Can our dreams change our waking lives?
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/51951
