Okay, so, as you may or may not know, I am a tattoo freak. I am also a body piercing freak, but those are holes through your flesh and I am mostly freaked out by the idea of them; all of mine are in my ears, in non-essential and non-permanently-damaging places. (Eventually I want to get two 'bites right next to each other on the right side of my lower lip, but that's neither here nor there.) And I have been planning my tattoos for a long, long time. And herein lies my problem.

Okay, so for my sixteenth birthday I was promised the tattoo I've wanted for four years, the Chinese symbol for dream-the-verb on the back of my neck. But I've been looking up stuff on the internet, and frankly the amount of room for misinterpretation and just plain error scares me. Unless I get someone who actually reads Chinese, like, natively (no offense to the school system, but I've been through their idea of competently teaching me a language and if I didn't have some honorary family who speak it natively I'd sound like a fricking moron, and that was in a language that uses the same alphabet) there's no guarantee that it'll be exactly what I want it to be, and that shit is permanent.

So I was thinking, what I really want out of that tattoo is a symbol that is widely recognized to mean 'dream' without explicitly writing it out in English. But the only thing I could think of that wasn't foreign language was a dreamcatcher, and while I love them and think they're beautiful, I wouldn't really want one tattooed on me for several reasons: a) I want all my tattoos to be done in straight black ink; colors are beautiful but not for me, not unless I find something really special, and dreamcatchers don't really look good just sketched out; b) My mother has one tattooed already, and I really don't want some cutesy mother-daughter thing; and c) I still want it in the same place and approximately the same size, and personally a dreamcatcher has to be a certain size to look right.

Anyway, my point is: Can any of you think of a symbol (from mythology or pop culture or whatever) that symbolizes 'dream' (preferably the verb, but seeing as it's a symbol and not a complete sentence I'm not picky) or is closely related to it in some way? Something that would look good in just black lines, please, and that can feasibly be shrunk to about three inches on either side.

Thanks so much for help.