At first glance it may seem impossible to extract the hidden meaning of a dream. Much of the difficulty stems from the fact that the dreamer is close to the people and places in the dream and therefore overlooks the symbolic meanings. This formula was devised to overcome this. Sample List of Keywords and Phrases Arid, avoid, apart, attack, alcohol, alien, back away from, baggage, bag, blind, blocked, bottle, box, broken, burdened, burnt out, bury, brick, blood stained, beat, cage, cap, cement, chaos, closed, closet, cold, conceal, confused, control, cork, corner, cube, curtains, cut, choked, crash helmet, crossed, canal, cobbled, cannot give, cannot share, dark, dead, deaf, deformed, deny, delayed, destroy, dilapidated, dingy, dim, dirty, disorganized, divide, dried, drunk, dull, dumb, dusty, drug, drink (alcohol), dwarf, drunk, drab, drop, end, envelope, eject, escape, fall, fight, frozen, foreign, four, frail, flat, grey, gloomy, grubby, grotesque, handicapped, hard, hit, holding on, hopeless, heavy, ignore, injured, invisible, island, isolated, insulated, killed, lame, laugh at, lazy, lie down, locked, lost, late, margin, missing, mutated, mask, mouse, narrow, neglected, obstructed, old-fashioned, on the fence, packed, parked, plastic, picket, polluted, poor, prison, pig, pale, poison, plateau, rat, rectangular, refuse, regimented, resist, reject, reluctant, reverse, rigid, run away, rusty, separate, scattered, shelter, shuttered, sick, sit, sneer, square, squeezed, stall, stained, starved, steer, stifled, stop, straight, strangled, stripe, stuck, stunted, smothered, short, short cut, surround, stolen, throw, tied, trapped, T-shirt, twisted, U-turn, unbalanced, uneven, unlit, unpaid, unready, uniform, unwell, wall, wasted, weak, wheelchair, withered, will not leave, will not move, worm.