Abstract

One of the mysterious phenomena in our world is "dream" or "to dream". Objects are appeared symbolically in this phenomenon. Thus, to understand their real meaning, they should be interpreted and investigated. Long since, it was common to investigate dream symbols and compiling them led to create works called "dream interpretation book" So many symbols have been allocated to women and women problems in Persian dream interpretation books.By considering and analyzing these symbols, they would present a more clear and more complete picture of woman from ancients' point of view. Among these, "dishes" are symbols interpreted as woman. The approach of ancients in some interpretations, specially interpretation of dishes in dream interpretation books, are similar to Freudian approach, in which he believes that hollow objects denote woman. Also some basils, birds and animals have symbolic meaning in dream interpretation books. By observing the meaning of these symbols, two motifs are seen. a) uniting and marriage and sexual or financial enjoyment of women and,b)dissociating or divorcing them and death. Birds flying from our hands or house and picking flowers and a bunch of flowers are symbols that denote separating from women. Watching a flower on a tree and killing birds are symbols of sexual enjoyment.