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DREAM DICTIONARY : This dream dictionary is based upon hundreds of real dreams and has been meticulously researched. However, the only person who can truly identify the cause of a dream is the dreamer. Use the questions and quotes on this page to help you find out what has triggered your dream.

TIME TRAVEL : Often we completely forget how we used to think and feel. Time travelling may appear in dreams when we start to think and reflect on how we used to act and feel.

QUESTIONS to help you make associations(pick the one that makes most sense to you)
- Have you just recently met someone from your past?
- Have you been thinking about how you used to think and feel and behave in the past?

KEY WORDS : How I used to think, The past, The future

KEY PHRASES(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially of the day before the dream) :
- "I have been thinking about how I felt at the time. I was really ..."
- "I met someone from my past and.."
- "I am wondering how my life could really change in the future."

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SEE ALSO : Harry Potter :Wictches :Aliens : Space
DREAM STUDIES : Space dreams
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Below you will see a series of quotes. Each quote represents the meaning of a particular dream(these are all dreams where the meaning is understood totally). For instance one dream may have meant that the dreamer was having trouble at work. In that case the quote may simply be "There is a bad atmosphere at work". Some information is included about which dream symbols were included in the dream(within the squares brackets). Often a sample dream is included which shows you how the dream interpretation was reached.
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ESSAY : What is the symbolic meaning of the time travel in dreams?

Time travel can link to how we are looking at how we used to think and feel eg.

"I met someone I have not seen for ages yesterday. He have loads of misconceptions. I think he feels I have not changed at all during all the time I have not seen him "[Dream Dictionary - Time machine dream]

"I have gone back to college. I am living life like a teenager. "[Dream symbol - Time travel dreams]

"I split up with my my but we have now got back together gain. I am starting to come to terms with the bad emotions and bitterness that I felt during the break. "[Dream Dictionary - use time machine to return to time when I killed my girlfriend dream]

Time machines can be associated with other times and other places and the possibility of major change. E.g.

"I have been talking to my counsellor about my life. I have started to feel I can put my life back on track again. My future can be different" [Dream Dictionary - Dr Who]


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SAMPLE DREAM
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THE DREAM I am in some community centre. There is the Tardis there with Doctor Who(he is a time traveler). It is a very dark room. I have closed the curtains but there is a mirror which can see in. I feel embarrassed in the dream THE REALITY The day before the dreamer met a friend from the past. They got talking and he felt embarrassed because his friend had done so well for himself. During the conversation his friend mentioned how lacking money he was. The dreamer felt this was a joke when in fact he then realised that his friend was serious.

DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer - "I met an old friend yesterday and he mentioned how poor he was. It was just a joke but I looked around his house and he seemed to be doing really well. It just made me think"

DREAM ANALYSIS The dream featured a time machine("The Tardis" from "Doctor Who"). This is a fairly easy symbol to track down. You just look for some connection to the past or future. In this case the dreamer had met someone from the past. In meeting him he had traveled in time. Things had changed radically and in meeting his friend in some ways he was meeting his old self. He was thinking how he used to be and how things had changed.

The closed curtains perhaps symbolised the wish to conceal his own circumstances. He felt completely poor compared to his prosperous friend. In the dream the dreamer felt emarassed that people could see into the room so he was closing the curtains. That captured the sense of embarassement in reality.

Symbolic Meanings

CURTAINS CLOSED: "the dreamer was embarrassed at his own situation compared to his friends prosperity. He wanted to conceal how badly he was doing"
MIRROR: "the dreamers friend had mentioned the day before how poor he was - the friends comments made him think about himself. He realised what he considered poor and what his friend considered poor were completely different things."
TIME MACHINE : "The dreamer meets someone from the past - he was traveling in his mind through time. Thinking about the past and the present"

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