How Nocturnary works
What's free, and what's $2.99
Nocturnary reads your dream in three ancient traditions. The traditional meaning is always free. A deep, personal reading of your specific dream is a one-time $2.99 — no account, no subscription, ever.
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The short version
Free: your dream read across all three traditions, from 250 symbols. $2.99: a deep, personal reading written just for your dream. No signup, no membership.
Free — the three-tradition reading
Tell your dream and read it instantly across Chinese 周公解梦, Western / Jungian, and Ibn Sirin, matched to our 250-symbol dictionary. This is the meaning you could look up anywhere — gathered in one place, and always free. No account, no card, no catch.
$2.99 — your deep reading
When you want more than the dictionary, unlock a deep reading: a personal interpretation of your whole dream — what happened, how it felt, how it ended, and what's going on in your life — written just for you and woven across all three traditions. It's a one-time $2.99 for that dream. Never a subscription.
Why it's built this way
The traditional meaning of a symbol is free everywhere, so we give it to you freely. You only pay when you want a reading that's genuinely about your dream — your specifics, not a generic entry. That's the part worth paying for, and the only part we charge for.
What a deep reading looks like
This is a real deep reading, shared with permission, for a dream told as: “I was being chased through a house made of water. My teeth started falling out and I tried to fly but couldn't get off the ground.” — with “started a new job last month” as context.
A deep reading · sample
The house is new and you don't trust the floors yet — that is the whole dream.
Four symbols arrived together, and they cooperate. The chase is the pressure that followed you into the new role; the house made of water is the role itself — a structure you now live inside that hasn't hardened, where every wall is still feeling. Ibn Sirin would read pursuit through your own house as a pressing matter at intimate range; the Chinese reading would add that water in the house's bones is fortune that hasn't settled into form. Both are right about a first month.
The teeth are the tell. In every tradition they carry standing — the face you show, the bite you bring — and they fall in dreams precisely when you fear being seen before you're ready. Falling teeth in a water-house is not decay; it is the persona moulting inside a structure too new to perform in. And the flight that wouldn't come: Jung would say you reached for altitude — the view above the job, the old competence — and the dream refused it, because the work right now is on the ground floor, learning where the rooms are.
Read together: nothing here warns. The dream is doing a first month's accounting — pressure real, footing wet, face not yet fitted, height not yet earned. The one counsel all three traditions share is the turn: stop mid-corridor once this week and look at what follows you. It is almost certainly a task, a conversation, or a version of yourself from the old job — and it wants to be assigned a room, not outrun.
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Questions
Do I need an account?
No. You can read any dream — and every symbol in all three traditions — without signing up or giving a card. Nothing to create, nothing to remember.
Is it a subscription?
No. There is no membership and no recurring charge. The deep reading is a one-time $2.99, only when you want one for a particular dream.
What do I get for free?
The full symbol reading: your dream matched to our 250-symbol dictionary and read across Chinese 周公解梦, Western / Jungian, and Ibn Sirin — the same meaning you would look up anywhere, gathered in one place.
What does the $2.99 deep reading add?
A personal interpretation of your whole dream — its images, its feeling, how it ended, and what is going on in your life — written for you and woven across all three traditions. It is the reading only you could receive.
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