Different Types of Dreams according to The Everything Dreams Book by Jenni Kosarin:
Release Dreams: Release dreams unveil your regrets, worries, or concerns.
Wish Dreams: Wish dreams portray situations you may fantasize about or hope will happen.
Prophetic Dreams: Prophetic dreams provide a possible foreshadowing of an event to come.
Astral Dreams: Astral dreams bring back someone’s spirit and, often times, assure the dreamer that the lost one is happy.
Problem-Solving Dreams: Problem-solving dreams do just as the name suggests: make puzzling situations less confusing and provide a clear-cut solution to the mystery at hand.
The Dream Glossary
Although certain objects and symbols represented in a dream can vary depending on the dreamer and the context of the dream, this handy dream glossary can help you interpret your dreams and why things appear when they do.
Abduction: If you’re abducted or kidnapped in your dream, it means you’re feeling pressured to do or say something you don’t believe in and don’t want to do in waking life. Abduction dreams often stem from guilt over things you’ve done or are about to do that aren’t typically in your character. If you witness someone else being abducted, it means you’re not acting on the opportunities you’ve been given.
Crying: To dream of crying indicates repressed sadness, usually referring to problems of the heart. It can also signify a release from problems. Try not to analyze this dream. Let your unconscious work it out for you.
Death: To dream that you die is not, actually, as morbid as many people would think. Death in a dream symbolizes inner changes, transformation, self-discovery and positive development that is happening within you or in your life.
Famous People: If you’re friends with famous people in your dream, it’s usually a wish-fulfillment dream. Deep down, you wish some of their success and recognition would rub off on you.
Heaven: If you dream of heaven, it could be that you’re aspiring to new heights in your love life or career. Examine who else is in the dream and what they’re doing there to find the specifics of your subconscious desires.
Jumping: To dream that you are jumping indicates that you need to take a risk and go for the gold.
Killing: A dream of killing someone is not a warning that you might turn into a killer. Instead, the meaning is more likely a symbolic act of aggression. Whom you kill and how that person is involved in the dream may symbolize killing off an unwanted part of yourself. What bothers you about this person?
Language: Hearing another language spoken indicates a desire to meet more people and, perhaps, to travel to foreign lands. It also signifies an open heart—you’re ready for love.
Nakedness: To dream that you are naked denotes the fear of being found out and exposed about your activities or misjudgments.
Thief: To dream you are a witness to a theft signifies that others are wasting and stealing your time, energy, and ideas.
Fun Facts about Dreams
You spend about a third of your life asleep.
Delta, the deepest level of sleep, is beyond the REM stage and too deep for dreams.
Dream researchers say that people can have prognostic dreams—dreams that lead to a remedy for an illness—or pathogenic dreams—dreams that can actually cause sickness, although most experts say that the latter are extremely rare.