This dictionary of dreams contains information drawn from studies of over 4000 years of dream interpretation, from ancient times to the most recent theories of US and European psychologists. The book is designed to reassure those with long-standing worries and help everyone to understand trends in their lives that dreams may conceal. The introduction describes the historical background of dream research, with A-Z lists of the varied meanings attributed to nearly 600 of the most frequent and widely reported dreams, from subjects first recorded thousands of years ago, such as birds and boats to those as up-to-date and diverse as cars and ice cream.