What research shows
Common before and after real weddings, and also entirely unconnected to them.
People
Union, commitment, or two parts of yourself joining.
What research shows
Common before and after real weddings, and also entirely unconnected to them.
The psychological reading
Jungian readings treat it as integration — two aspects of the self reconciling rather than two people.
What tradition claimed
Frequently read as an inversion and an omen of a funeral, which says more about older dream books than about weddings.
Included as cultural history. Traditional dream books are frequently ominous and have no predictive value.
How to record a dream, why the feeling matters more than the content, and when recurring nightmares are worth a doctor rather than a dictionary — set out once on the main page.
How the dream felt matters more than what was in it. The same image can arrive as comfort or as threat, and that difference tells you more than any entry in a dictionary — including this one.