Dead Notebook in dreams
A bound book of blank pages — private space reserved for your own thinking.
How dead changes the reading
Dead in the dream means the symbol's energy is no longer in active circulation in your life. The reading is not necessarily grim — most often it is the dream noting that something you had been carrying has run its full course and you can stop carrying it.
The base reading of Notebook
A notebook in a dream is the dream's image of a private container for thought. The notebook does not perform; it holds what you have not yet said aloud. The dream brings the notebook when there is interior material in your life that needs a place to be written down before it is acted on. An open notebook with fresh entries is the dream telling you that the practice of recording your own thinking is, currently, doing its work. A lost or filled notebook with no replacement is the dream noting that the private container you used to use is no longer available, and your thinking has been left without a home.