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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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Bequest

Bequest

A bequest in a dream — something handed down, left in our care — often brings the consolation of duties well performed and assurance for the young. The dream tends to touch inheritance in its largest sense, what is passed to us and what we pass on, and to ask what legacy we are tending or receiving.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

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

After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of duties well performed, and the health of the young is assured.