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Category

# Dream Guides

Big-picture guides to dreaming: the most common dreams, dream types, colors and numbers, and how to read what you saw.

![An open antique-gold book with blank pages resting on a dark surface, gold light and fine smoke rising from between them.](https://dreamtold.com/images/dream-guides/dream-guides-hero.jpg)

In this category

## Dream meanings
in this category.

Open a symbol for its full meaning, plus the in-depth guides behind it.

- [Yellow](https://dreamtold.com/dream-dictionary/yellow/): What the color yellow means in a dream: a double-sided quality of warmth and warning that shifts with the shade, the feeling, and the thing it colors.

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Reads in this category

## In-depth guides
on dream guides.

4 guides published in this category, newest first.

[Browse every guide](https://dreamtold.com/blog/)

- [The Best Books on Dreams, From Science to Symbolism](https://dreamtold.com/blog/best-books-on-dreams-and-dream-interpretation/): Dream dictionaries tend to repeat each other. This guide to the best books on dreams tells you what each one is actually good for, and who should skip it.
- [Paper Dream Journal or Phone Notes: Which One You Will Actually Keep](https://dreamtold.com/blog/paper-dream-journal-or-phone-notes/): The strongest case for paper over a phone dream journal is rarely made: picking up the phone puts you one swipe from everything else on it. Here is the real tradeoff.
- [How to Interpret Your Own Dreams: Five Questions to Ask Yourself](https://dreamtold.com/blog/five-questions-to-ask-after-a-dream/): How to interpret your own dreams without a symbol lookup: five questions, in order, feeling first, worked all the way through on one ordinary dream.
- [The Most Common Dreams and What They Mean](https://dreamtold.com/blog/most-common-dreams-and-what-they-mean/): The most common dreams, from being chased to teeth falling out, and what each one usually means. A grounded guide to reading your dream by its emotion and context.