Dream journal

No, and the evidence is fairly clear about it. The best-supported finding in dream research is the continuity hypothesis: dream content tracks what the dreamer is preoccupied with while awake. Content analyses across thousands of dream reports find consistent patterns by age, sex and culture, but nothing like a fixed dictionary meaning per image. A snake in your dream is not the same object as a snake in a stranger's.

Because the material is worth reading even where the claim is not. The traditions have been thinking about these images for two thousand years, and what Artemidorus, Freud and Jung each said about being chased is genuinely interesting cultural history. Our pages keep those readings apart from each other and apart from the research, and end with questions you can answer about your own dream. The questions are the part that does any work.

So you can tell when a match is meaningless. If it matched on the word water because you mentioned a glass of water, that is not a finding, and hiding the reason would make it look like one.

No. The index is loaded into your browser with the page and the matching happens there. What you type never reaches a server and is gone when you leave.

Name objects and actions rather than feelings. The index is built from symbol titles and keywords, so falling, teeth, water or being chased will find something where anxious or strange will not. If a symbol is genuinely missing, it is not written yet rather than deliberately excluded.

A recurring nightmare that disturbs your sleep is worth raising with a doctor, and no page here can tell you whether yours is one. What can be said is that recurrence is common, is more likely under stress, and responds to treatments that exist. That is a matter for a clinician, not a symbol lookup.