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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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Banner

Banner

A banner in a dream is identity raised high — allegiance, triumph, the colours we fly. Floating clear, it can mark victory over opposition; battered, it carries loss and strife. The dream tends to ask what we are standing for in the open, and whether our standard flies proud or hangs torn.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for banner, 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 one's country's banner floating in a clear sky, denotes triumph over foreign foes. To see it battered, is significant of wars and loss of military honors on land and sea.