Pros: Kind of cute.
Cons: Some words are hard to find. I'll explain.
The Bottom Line: It's coloful, fun, not very accurate, but amusing
to have on hand from time to time.
Ok the very first
thing I would like to do is WARN YOU. You see, there is an introduction to this
book, which is a very good one by the way, but I read it and then that night
had a dream about practically everything the introduction talked about. It was
ridiculous. So I’m warning you now – reading the interesting introduction might
cause you to have dreams about it that night.
Heh.
Moving on. In 2004 I got this
book as a present on my birthday and thought, “Hey, cool, I needed one of
these.”
I hate to seem rude or ungrateful (after all, it is just a
dream dictionary), but there are definitely better dream dictionaries out
there. Sure it’s illustrated, but man, it’s definitely not organized like a
dictionary and it’s really hard to find what you want half the time.
Let’s start with the
pictures. They’re very cute and colorful and just fun to look at. Actually the
first thing I did with this was look through it and check out all the pictures.
Each one depicts a possible dream, and will have the title beneath it in case
you can’t figure it out. They look like they could be watercolor or something…
But to the actual dictionary part. I can’t say I know how accurate
it is because, well, I don’t – I’m not a dream expert, that’s why I wanted a
dictionary (doy). But I will say this. The words you want are hard to find in
the first place. Sure the main words are in all capital letters, but everything
behind them is in a block paragraph (not indented underneath if it’s long
enough) format, which allows the main words to just fade in. That’s okay
though, because you can still see them.
The second problem is
the grouping of the words, which leads into the third problem of having a fun
time trying to find the word you want. If you want to find “snake” you can’t
just look up “snake.” You have to go to “Animals” and then look under there
somewhere amongst the monkeys and dogs and find it. This poses a problem for
other things. If I have something I want to look up and I can’t find it, I then
have to either A.) think of a synonym for that word (i.e. I wanted “cup” but
now I’ll try “glass”) or B.) try and think of what it could be under and look
that up and possibly even find a synonym for that because I can’t remember
which words will have more under them. The one I always seem to have problems
with is the “Anger/Confrontation” heading because I always forget it’s called
that because I just wanna look up what it means when I punch someone in the
face – not that it happens all the time or anything…
But in all truth, they are just dreams and it can be just
for fun. I’m not going to recommend it because I don’t think it’s impressive or
important enough to really bother with. I think it's main problem is that it
makes it seem as though your dreams are telling you the future instead of
showing you how you feel right now. But hey, at least if you ever get it for a
present, now you’ll know what to expect!
NT
P.S. NAKEDNESS -
Nakedness in a dream is quite common. If you see yourself naked then things are
about to improve. You may even have a stroke of money luck.
Notes from the playlist: "Summertime Sadness" by Within Temptation
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