Element Encyclopedia 20000 Dreams

by Theresa Cheung

Book Overview

Unlock the secrets of your dreamlife with the latest in the hugely popular series of 'Element Encyclopedias'. This is the most comprehensive A-Z reference book on dream interpretation you'll ever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007850476
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.1" x 1.9" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Reference Book!

This is the most complete book of dreams I've ever found, and it's always fun to look up the meanings. Glad I picked this one up!

👉 💜Yep...You NEED this book!💜👍

I've been doing dream interpretation & research for over 3 decades and own dozens of dream books and have read tons more. 👉🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄This is by far the biggest, coolest and most complete. 👉 a MUST HAVE for your collection. 💙 An awesome book to read from cover to cover or ....to look up specific dream symbols. 👉❤Interesting & easy to read lay out, explanation of why we dream, famous theories of dreams, & history of dreaming...all covered in full, 🧡 Multiple meanings for almost every subject/symbol.... & cross referenced with many dream sources, cultural & conscious collective references for each dream symbol. ❤ Also...it has neat sections intermingled on things like symbolosm of colors, flowers, animals, big cats, buildings, vehicles, common nightmares etc. 💛 💚💙💜 ALL of the Element Encyclopedia Series... all awesome. Did I say this book is awesome! 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 Random tips for owning this book 👉 I ripped out the index (carefully page by page) from the back of the book and bound it separately to make it easier to reference when looking up symbols in the book. (You'll understand why once you start using the book.and then can decide...) 👉Write all over this book like it is a workbook from college. Seriously .. it's ok. Haha 😆 Use colored pencils to highlight & underline...or to even shade a whole section in pink. Lol.. 😍sometimes I underline different meanings in different colors. It is so helpful for reoccurring dreams that I tend to look up more and more. 👉This book is huge. Over 600 pages. 👉👉💪 Get the soft cover. The hard cover split on me and fell off from using so much... 👭👭👭 might want to buy 2 copies...because someone is going to ask you about dreams and you're gonna maybe wish you had a copy to gift. Haha. 👉💜 After much trial and error with this book... I got a 3rd copy ...with the SOFT cover.... and 3 hole punched all 600+ pages and reassemble in a huge ring binder that makes me feel like I'm opening an ancient bible or something. Definitely looks cool this way. (Since I suggested the binder... heres one last one...finding the right size binder is important don't rush into a size too big or small...or the pages will rip. I used a 3" with within slope ring....I think lol. ) hope this all helps get you excited! 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄This book is So worth it. Best thing you'll buy under 10 bucks in a while. 💜💙💚💛💖 👉 ~ Stayoutofyourwheel

Dream interpretation

I have been a dream saver for 30 years...both in and out of therapy. This book has the finest cross-referencing and extensions I have ever used. I highly recommend it for any dreamer wanting to know.

The only dream book you will ever need

This is the ultimate dream book. This book is huge and there is so much information in it. It is the only dream book you will ever need.

Analyze Your Dreams

Well, did you ever have these dreams that you just KNOW mean something? I mean, they're different than the jump-around nonsense dreams. Every so often I do, and I thought it would be fun to get this book and check themout myself. (I used to ask a girlfriend who was pretty good at dream analysis. Now I do both--look it up AND ask my girlfriend. Then I look to see how the 2 analyses match up. Where are they the same? And did she come up with something I missed?) Anyway, it's fun. Sometimes dreams throw something up in our face that we need to address in some way. With all that said, this is a pretty impressive book with some good information. It is a full sized, hard cover 678 page book. We are talking some serious information here. Of course, you should probably read the whole book, then play with it by looking things up. No, I did NOT read the whole book. Here's how I use it: Let's say you have a dream. You are walking across a bridge. Under the bridge is lots of water and the water is rather violent. You walk across the bridge without fear and you make it to the other side, unhurt. OK. So, you go to the index in the back of the book and you look up "bridge and water". "Bridges" appears on 5 pages, so you look them up and read. "Water" appears on about 16 plus pages, depending on what you were doing with the water (traveling on it, drinking it, etc.). You start reading and see if it makes sense. Of course, this is the dollar store analysis I'm giving you right now. You may have more stuff in your own dream, and when you go to the page, there are often other questions. So water symbolizes emotions and opportunities for enrichment. In Greek mythology, river crossings are often associated with death or a journey into the unconscious. Crossing a bridge indicates an ability to move forward and achieve the success you long for. It represents your underlying strength to cope with difficult challenges. The bridge is a potential link of your past with a possible future. So, if I was analyzing this dream, I might conclude (depending on any additional circumstances in the dream) that I was moving forward into the future and was quite capable of handing anything (emotions, etc) that came up in my transition, even if the "waters" became turbulent. And not only was I CAPABLE, but I successfully crossed over the bridge/achieved the transition. At this point, I might look at other factors in the dream and see if that analysis makes sense to me based on what is going on in my life. Don't buy this book if you're a worry wart and you are gonna read a bunch of negative crap that will depress you. Do buy this book if you're interested in analyzing your dreams to either learn more about yourself and/or just for fun. If you want a dream analysis book, this one has a heck of a lot of info!