Dream interpretation has three separate traditions, and they disagree with each other. Folk and classical dream books assign fixed meanings to symbols and have done so for centuries. Psychology reads a dream instead as a by-product of memory consolidation and of whatever the sleeper was preoccupied with that week. And the same symbol carries different weight in different cultures: a snake is a warning in one tradition and a sign of renewal in another.
Every guide in this section keeps those three apart and labels which one it is speaking from. That matters more than it sounds. Most dream content online blends a line from a 19th-century dream book with a sentence of pop neuroscience and presents the mixture as established fact. We do not predict events, we do not invent studies or statistics, and where a claim comes from a tradition rather than from research, the text says so plainly.
The guides are organised by what appears in the dream rather than by how it felt, because that is how people search. Six groups cover nearly everything: animals (snakes, dogs, spiders, birds), people (someone who has died, an ex, a stranger, a baby), the body (teeth falling out, hair, blood, pregnancy), situations (falling, being chased, flying, being late, an exam), objects (money, keys, a car, a phone) and places (water, a house, stairs, a road).
Each entry answers the same four questions: what the traditional dream books say about that image, what sleep and memory research can and cannot explain about it, what the common variations change about the reading, and which culture a particular meaning belongs to. Where there is no good answer, the entry says there is no good answer instead of filling the gap. Entries are added one group at a time, and this page lists them as they go up.