Diary

Journal, Diaries, Secret diary

Your diary keeps the thoughts you don't say out loud. Dreaming of one touches on privacy, memory and honesty with yourself. Writing in one means you're sorting through feelings and want to make sense of them. Finding an old one can put you face to face with someone you used to be, along with worries that have since faded. Someone reading your diary is a common anxious image: you may fear that private thoughts will become public. A locked or missing diary may show there's something you'd prefer to leave unread, even by yourself.

Dream variations

• Someone reading your diaryYou worry a private feeling will come out before you choose to share it. Decide who should hear it from you first.
• Finding an old diaryWorries that once felt huge now look small on the page. Remember that when today's ones feel heavy.
• Writing in a diaryYou're working out a feeling by putting it into words. Write a little more; it's helping.
• Pages torn out of a diaryYou'd rather forget part of your own story. Some chapters can stay closed, as long as you've learned from them.

Related symbols

Writing · Book · Reading · Letter

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