The Dream Archive

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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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Astral medallion
Astral

Astral

The astral in a dream touches the sense of a self beyond the body — a finer presence, an aspiration toward distinction. It can mark plans culminating in worldly success, or a glimpse of who we might become. The dream tends to ask what larger self we are reaching toward, and what it would mean to meet it.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for astral, 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

Dreams of the astral, denote that your efforts and plans will culminate in worldly success and distinction. A spectre or picture of your astral self brings heart-rending tribulation.