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About The Dream Guidebook
The Dream Guidebook is a free dream dictionary with more than 1,200 readings, a private dream journal, a dream interpreter and a seven day recall course. It exists because most dream sites give you one confident sentence per symbol and nothing to check it against. This one tries to do the opposite: name where each reading comes from, show where the traditions disagree, and stop when the evidence stops.
How a reading is built
Every symbol is read through up to three lenses. The psychological lens draws on published dream research: the continuity hypothesis, threat simulation theory, work on dreaming and emotion, and the survey data on which dreams people actually report. The biblical lens quotes the King James Version with the reference given, and includes a section on what Scripture does not say about the symbol. The numbers lens covers repeating numbers and mirror hours, with the history of the idea and the psychology of why we notice repetition.
Researchers and books are named, and every article ends with the works it cites. Statistics come from one named survey, never from nowhere.
What psychology says and what a tradition says are labeled separately, and where they contradict each other we show the contradiction instead of smoothing it over.
Nothing here claims a dream foretells the future. Dreams track your present, and that is the one claim the site makes.
A reading is a prompt for reflection. Where the research is thin or the tradition is silent, the article says so.
Who writes it
Nora Vance is the editorial name of the site, a pen name rather than a person with a biography. The articles are drafted with AI writing tools and then edited and corrected under a written editorial specification, which is public on the editorial standards page. Automated checks enforce that specification before each release: no invented personal stories, no unsourced statistics, no predictions, no broken links. We say this plainly because you should know how the pages you are reading were made.
Nobody here is a clinician, a psychologist or a theologian, and the site does not pretend otherwise. The readings summarize published work and tradition for general readers.
Nothing here is a diagnosis, a treatment or a ruling. If a dream, or a run of nightmares, is frightening you or affecting your sleep, talk to a doctor or a therapist. For questions of faith, talk to someone in your own tradition.
How the site is funded
The site carries a small reading list with Amazon affiliate links, and may carry Google advertising in future. Neither influences what an article says. Both are disclosed where they appear and explained in the privacy policy and the terms of use.
Get in touch
Corrections, missing symbols and questions are welcome through the contact page. Fixes are logged on the corrections page.