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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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Bank

Bank

A bank in dreams often speaks to questions of self-worth and what you feel you've earned or accumulated—trust, energy, recognition, security. Whether the vaults feel full or empty may matter less than how you carry yourself inside them, and what you fear losing.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for bank, 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 see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it, great gain and prosperity.

To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune. You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If you dream you go to a large bank, and have money there, it is a sign that you will be poor at some future period of your life.