#Symbols

The snake is one of the oldest figures in human dreams. What the traditions say, what the psychologists say, and the questions worth asking when you wake.

Nearly everyone falls in their sleep. What the traditions and the researchers say about the most universal dream, and the question it asks.

It is one of the most common and most unsettling dreams there is. What the teeth dream tends to track, and the questions worth asking after it.

Water is the dream world's favourite material. What oceans, floods, and clear pools tend to mean, and the simple key that unlocks most of them.

The flying dream is the night's great gift. What it tends to mean, why it visits when it does, and the question to ask while your feet are still off the ground.

The chase dream is fear's favourite theatre. What the pursuer usually is, why turning around changes everything, and the question to ask on waking.

The most recognised sacred symbol on earth is also the most casually worn. What Om actually means, sound by sound, and where the famous mark comes from.

Rooted in mud, flowering above water: the lotus is the East's master symbol, and its teaching is more demanding than its prettiness suggests.

The string of 108 beads is prayer made portable. What a mala is for, why the number, and what the practice does that an app cannot.