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This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
"Swapna Shastra" is a popular umbrella name for Indian dream-omen material rather than a single ancient book. The Agni Purana, for example, lists auspicious dreams (mountains, palaces, white flowers) and inauspicious ones (a shaven head, a collapsing house).
How it works
Dream images are looked up in lists of good and bad omens; texts also recommend prayers to counter bad dreams.
Notes and limits
Safety: Dream omens are traditional beliefs, not clinical or predictive information.
At a glance
- Also called
- Swapna Shastra, स्वप्न शास्त्र, Swapnadhyaya
- Traditions
- Hindu, Puranic
- Regions
- South Asia
- You need
- Your dream
- Price
- Free