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.

SISTERS : Sisters are usually a fairly reliable symbol. First try to relate the issue to some issue involving your sister. If there are none then the appearance of your sister is entirely symbolic. Sisters link to the ways that sisters behave. They talk and explore emotions in an open way. They are fairly honest and show you starting to think in new ways emotionally. They can show that some painful issue is now been accepted. They may show you been more honest with yourself about some health problem. They also symbolise moments when you start to explore new ideas and think freely on a particular subject. For instance they will capture moments when you think "well actually I do tend to lose my temper easily".

QUESTIONS to help you make associations(pick the one that makes most sense to you)
- In what ways have you been talking openly about your feelings?
- Did you feel as if you were willing to think in a new way yesterday?
- Are you begining to accept some changes in your life?
- What new ideas and feelings have you been exploring?
- Are you just starting to realise what the day to come will be like?
- Do you feel as if you need to have a serious talk with someone and really find out what they are thinking and feeling?

KEY WORDS : Thinking emotionally, opening up, realising, exploring(write down some quotes that capture your key feelings on issues that have been dominating your mind. Then see if any of these words could appear in those quotes)

KEY PHRASES(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially of the day before the dream) :
- "I am just starting to realise ..."
- "opening up emotionally"
- "I am beginning to accept the situation"
- "exploring a new feeling"
- "It got me thinking emotionally"
- "I am looking at him in a new way"
- "you need time to think about your feelings!"
- "I want to have a serious talk and find out what we both feel"

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SEE ALSO : Little Girls : Sisters : Brothers : Fathers : Mothers : Grandmothers : Unknown man : Grandfathers : Witches : Police
DREAM STUDIES : Grandparents : Sisters : Brothers : Fathers : Bosses : Unknown Man : Sisters
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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 sisters in dreams?

When you think of the symbolic meaning of sisters try to think of the way that sisters sit around a coffee table and endlessly discuss in great detail their own feelings and explore what everyones emotions are.

In some cases sisters symbolise a new openness within us in which we are exploring new ideas. E.g.

"I have just found out about my Jewish ancestry. I have tried to think about it and connect to my Jewish roots. But in truth I have little factual knowledge of their story and how they suffered in the holocaust"[Dream symbol - angry sister dream](This quote refers to a real dream which features at the end of this article)

"This bird flu is a real potential problem for everyone. Its not broken out yet but if it does I am just STARTING TO REALISE that it could be horrific"[Dream symbol - sister]

"I have been meeting a lot of new people recently and its a real eye opener" [Dream Dictionary - sister]

Many dreams featuring sisters link to us starting to accept that something bad has happened to us. Its part of acceptance. E.g.

"Well I know my health is not so good but now I am STARTING TO FEEL that things might be much more worse than I thought" [Dream Dictionary - sister]

"I know things have been bad since my friend died but I really starting to OPEN UP and deal with the issue." [Dream Dictionary - Sister]

"My foot seems to be getting worse. I am just starting to realise that it maybe much worse than I thought. I have just got to ACCEPT it though" [Dream Dictionary - sister]

Other times we are merely exploring emotions in great detail. E.g.

"Looking through all those old files GOT ME THINKING EMOTIONALLY about the memories they were connected with. "[Dream Dictionary - Two sisters]

"I think I fantasize too much as I am day dreaming of my crush all the time. I suppose its getting worse" [Dream Dictionary - sister]

"I have split from my husband and he has said that I have got a lot of things to work on" [Dream Dictionary - sister]

Sisters can also show us starting to realise the truth in some way. E.g.

"I am due to be visited by my overbearing mother this week. I am just starting to realise what its going to be like tomorrow. She is a nightmare" [Dream Dictionary - sister]

Sisters can also show us trying to empathize and feel what emotions we should feel. E.g.

"Well I am going to have to convince my employer that I was really sick yesterday. So I am going to have to feel everything in an authentic way. So maybe I should EXPLORE the kind of feelings that I would feel in such circumstances" [Dream Dictionary - sister]

Sometimes sisters may represent a non sexual relationship between a man and a woman. E.g.

"I know that my relationship has ended but I do really want to carry on with him in the future. I am looking at him in a NEW WAY. A relationship between a man and a woman does not have to be sexual. I could be like a SISTER" [Dream Dictionary - sister-in-law]

"Its nice to get the praise off her. She is obviously not coming on to me - she just wishes to show some support and friendship"[Dream dictionary - sister]

Sisters can link to a wish to talk through your feelings and find out those of others. E.g.

"I keep getting mixed signals from my ex boyfriend. I wish I could have a serious talk with him and find out what his true feelings are"[Dream symbol - phoning ex boyfriend with sister]
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DREAM TIP: Dreams are very much linked to your current mindset. They especially link to the previous day. Think about issues keeping you awake. Sisters as symbols capture moments when your emotions are in a state of change. They show you willing to accept thoughts of failure that you were previously denying. They capture moments when you are exploring new ideas intellectually. Think of those moments when you have been lying awake before going to sleep. Did you feel a sense of openness?
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SAMPLE DREAM : Dreams generally link to some real issue of relevance to you right now. They may capture your feelings on some health issue, work problem , relationship in difficulty , your feelings about how things are generally going, your plans for the day ahead or some simple paranoia or fear. The dreams featured in this website will try to reduce the dreams meaning to a quote which captures your current feelings on some issue. When studying your own dreams try to think what quotes could capture your own feelings on pressing issues. Think especially of the day before the dream and your thoughts about the day to come.
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THE DREAM last night I dreamt that my sister and I had the address to a house where my fathers real father lived. (As far as I know, my father was raised by his real father) anyway, when we got there, there was a woman who said the guy was dead now but that he knew he was our dads dad and he kept close watch on him and all his kids. She got out this big book (it had Braille pages in it and she had lots of pictures of us from when we were kids stapled to the pages). In real life my grandmother is blind and the picture book looked a lot like her Braille Bible books. I thought for a second that the woman had been to my grandma's house and that was were she got the book. She gave me a pair of gloves to put on before I looked at the book. My sister wanted to explore the house (which was huge!) but I wanted to look at the book. The woman went to get us something to drink and my sister and I went to explore a little. We ended up on a little boat that had a wire bottom. We had to move some cleaning supplies around the bottom of the boat for some reason but the boat sank anyway. We were swimming across this lake to get back to the house. We ended up a good bit away from the house but we got back. While I was swimming I noticed that I still had the ladies gloves on so I had to swim without getting the gloves wet. Then the woman wanted some money for the gloves and I didn't have any so she said she would take my sisters jacket instead. She kept saying the "green breaker" and I didn't know what she was talking about. I refused because I couldn't give away something that didn't belong to me. But the woman took it anyway. And then she demanded that my sister write an $8 check to cover the expenses of the drinks she gave us. It was weird. My sister got mad and I got mad and we left. I don't know how the woman was related to the man who was supposed to be my dad's dad. There were other people there like a man and some young girls. I thought they might have been my step sisters when they were little but they are all grown now.

THE REALITY The day before the dream the dreamer had talking with a woman and she described how she was part Asian. Just as the dreamer was falling asleep she thought "how can she not know that she is part Asian?" Then the dreamer thought about herself and how she had recently found out that she was part Jewish. She knew her fathers mothers family were Jewish and that somehow they converted.

The dreamer had found this out through a cousin. She dislikes this cousin as he is very racist and she suspects that he was trying to hide his Jewish background.

DREAM ANALYSIS The dream starts off with the dreamer exploring her fathers home. This can symbolise lots of things but the way he is exploring the home suggests a connection with her father and his roots. This is at least consistent with the dreamer exploring her own family tree. In this case the dreamer had thought about her own roots shortly before going to bed. The things on our minds before we go to bed are extremely important. Dreams are mirrors - they concentrate on the day before and very much focus on new feelings forming. They also will home in on little intuitions that stick in our mind - the dreamer clearly thought about how this woman did not know she was part Asian.

Boats in dreams often symbolise issues which we able to build up some emotional momentum on. The boat in this case sinks though so it shows its an issue that she is unable to build up some momentum on. That is clearly relevant in this case. In real life the dreamer was thinking about her Jewish ancestry but was unable to build up a sense of journey into her past. She was unable to emotionally connect with her distant relatives. She did not have enough information to build up an accurate picture. She simply knew that in the past she had Jewish relatives and that they converted. They must have converted because she now goes to church and not to synagogue. Its as simple as that. But she was unable to understand the process about how this took place. It shows that the dreamer was wanting to relate to her Jewish relatives story. But she knew nothing of their time during the holocaust. She was therefore unable to really explore her past. Perhaps the Braille books are symbols of this past that she is blind to and unable to explore.

The dream features the dreamers sister. In dreams sisters often represent moments when we are exploring new feelings. They capture moments when we are trying to explore new ways of thinking and opening our minds. Exploring a past that she knows little of is very much linked to this.

The dream also features cleaning products. Maybe this suggests that the dreamer was trying to show how she was OK with her Jewish ancestry. She felt that her cousin was anti Semitic and also had thoughts about the holocaust. Perhaps the cleaning products link to the need to explore the pain her relatives may have suffered.

Swimming is often a symbol of real effort in an emotional sense. It shows that you are trying to move to some new emotional situation. In this case it captures the efforts the dreamer was making to explore her ancestry.

Overall the dream captures the dreamers thoughst at the time - "I keep thinking of my jewish past but in many ways I cannot really understand it in any meaningful way. I want to be able to understand the story of how they converted and understand the horrors they faced in the holocaust. Yet all I really now is that they converted. After all they must have converted because we all go to church not synogogue".

Symbolic Meanings
BOAT : "trying to explore and connect with her own past - relate to her ancestors in a meaningful way"
BOAT SINKS : "Unable to explore her ancestry because she has so little real factual knowledge to explore"
EXPLORE GRANDFATHERS HOUSE : "her families ancestry and jewish roots "
SISTER : "exploring some new issue and opening your mind"
SWIMMING : "emotional effort "

DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer - "I recently found out that I have some jewish ancestry. I have been trying to explore this past but its all a bit pointless as I do not really know much behind this. I have tried to get excited but all I know is that I have some jewish ancestors and that sometime in the past they converted. The only reason I know they converted was because we are all christians".

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DREAM SYMBOLS - S
• Sad
• Safe
• Sails
• Schools
• Scorpion
• Search
• Sex
• Sexual assault
• Sharks
• Ship
• Shock
• Shoes
• Shop
• Shopping bags
• Shout
• Silent
• Sister
• Skin
• Sky
• Skyscrapers
• Slow Motion
• Snake
• Snow
• Soldier
• Spider
• Space
• Spy
• Stage
• Stairs
• Stare
• Steal
• Store
• Storm
• Stream
• Street
• Struggle
• Suit
• Suburbs
• Sudden
• Suicide
• Surround
• Swamp
• Sweat
• Swimming

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