Dream Symbols: What 46 Common Symbols Mean

A handful of images turn up in dreams far more than the rest — falling, teeth, water, being chased, a house you half recognise. These are the 46 Noctly reads for, and the same 46 it tags your own dreams with over time.

A symbol on its own only gets you so far. Water means one thing when it is calm and another when you are drowning in it, and both mean something different again if you dreamt it the week you changed jobs. Use the list to get your bearings, then read the guides for the detail.

The 46 symbols

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The 16 in gold have a full guide behind them. The rest are read inside Noctly, against the dream you actually wrote.

✦  YOUR DREAM, NOT THE AVERAGE ONE

Which of these were in yours?

Write what you dreamt and Noctly picks out the symbols itself, then reads them together — free, and it takes about twenty seconds.

Write a few lines to begin