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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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Bail medallion
Bail

Bail

Bail in a dream is the pledge that frees, and it carries risk on both sides — to seek it can mark unforeseen troubles arriving; to stand it for another, exposure to their fortunes. The dream tends to ask whom we are vouching for or leaning on, and what we are putting at stake to secure a release.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

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

If the dreamer is seeking bail, unforeseen troubles will arise; accidents are likely to occur; unfortunate alliances may be made.

If you go bail for another, about the same conditions, though hardly as bad.