dream

Dreams about choking tend to arrive with a very specific kind of panic: the body is trying to speak, and nothing comes out. Sometimes it feels like there is an invisible grip at the throat; sometimes it is more like you are swallowing air, coughing, gasping, or waking...

Dreaming about vomiting tends to land with a very particular feeling: urgency, embarrassment, relief, and sometimes a strange sense of being emptied out. It often shows up when something has been building up for a while, and the dream gives it a messy,...

A dream about pain tends to arrive with a very immediate feeling, the kind that lingers in the body even after waking. Sometimes it’s sharp and dramatic, sometimes it’s dull and oddly ordinary, like pain in a tooth, a hand, a back, or an old bruise that should not be...

Dreams about injury tend to arrive with a strange emotional weather to them. Sometimes the injury is minor — a cut, a bruise, a twisted ankle — and sometimes it’s more alarming, but the feeling underneath is often the same: something in you has been jolted, exposed,...

Dreams about hair tend to arrive with a strange kind of intimacy. They can leave behind the sense that something private was being touched, fixed, admired, or altered. Sometimes the dream feels tender, even vanity-laced; sometimes it feels oddly exposed, like you woke...

Dreams about feet tend to arrive with a very grounded feeling, even when the dream itself is strange. Sometimes they leave you oddly aware of your own body on waking, as if the dream has tugged your attention downward for a reason. Feet show up in dreams when...