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Search across 2,348 dream symbols drawn from the older dream books and the public archive. Each entry carries an original interpretive note for the contemporary dreamer.

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Apprentice medallion
Apprentice

Apprentice

To serve as an apprentice in a dream is to be learning, finding one's place among others not yet as an equal. It can mark a struggle to win standing among our companions. The dream tends to ask where we are still serving our time, and what mastery we are working toward.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for apprentice, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901

Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted

To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle to win a place among your companions