Dictionary of Dreams: Interpretation and Understanding: 3,500 Interpretations to Understand the True Meaning of Your Dreams

by Didier Colin

This work takes 1000 key words and using a game of 24 cards, offers almost 3500 possible dream interpretations. The approach is simple, direct and easy to use: take the key words from each dream and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842021842
• ISBN13: 9781842021842
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Hachette Illustrated UK
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Definitely Unique But Not For The Beginner

As a writer on the topic of dreams, I am constantly comparing dream dictionaries. In some ways dreams can be a rather narrow topic so I'm always interested in different perspectives. The card set that is included with the book intrigued me. Colin's basic meanings are traditional and accurate. While the author is quite thorough, the expanded definitions mainly focus on predictive dreams. Meanings are loaded with phrases such as "You will," "You are," "Someone will," etc. Other dream dictionaries as well as I would instead make statements such as "If you dream of being trapped, perhaps there is too much stress in your waking life." Colin consistently predicts outcomes. While the expanded definitions concern me, they can be useful if not taken as final authority. There are some good perceptions there. While I do give credence to predictive dreams, they make up a very small percentage in the dreams that occur for most individuals and throughout the population. There is always the danger that the dreamer will get too wrapped up in the suggestion of premonition and attract disaster through their own thought processes or cause themselves undue worry and fear. The cards, which are contained on perforated pages, are a series of four symbols, but the author lost me with the 64 possible combinations similar to tarot spreads. I don't have the time to investigate such a complicated system. However, the meanings of the combinations are interesting and more appropriate for applying dreams to waking life than the individual symbols definitions. If you have time to play with this system and can decipher the combinations from the small print, you may find it interesting and useful. The combinations are also printed in the page margins but lack the text references included in the legend, so the reader must still refer to the small print to utilize the system. Expert tarot readers may find the system an interesting comparison. This can be used as a basic reference but there are many others that are significantly better. I would not recommend this book at all for beginners. This one is best taken with a grain of salt.

Pretty thorough and works well for me

The thing that really caught my attention when I saw this in the bookstore was the fact that it came with a set of cards to help with the dream interpretation, almost like a miniature tarot deck made of four basic symbols. There is a section in the back that fully explains the meaning of the combination of cards that you draw that can be combined with the other half of the book that explains the symbols in your dream. The dictionary section has an index at the beginning that groups similar symbols together and points you to the page to look up that symbol on. I also liked the fact that there are multiple interpretations listed under each symbol depending on the circumstances of the dream. Aside from a few typos (including one on the card combination index), the book is pretty thorough and full of great information. Also, if the cards were a little larger and thicker and the instructions were more clear or simple on how to use the cards, then I would have given this book a higher rating.