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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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Book Store

Book Store

A book store in a dream is a room full of possible knowledge, and the old books read visiting one as kindling literary aspirations that may pull us from other work. The dream tends to touch the lure of learning and the page, and to ask what intellectual longing is stirring, and what it might draw us away from.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for book store, 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 visit a book store in your dream, foretells you will be filled with literary aspirations, which will interfere with your other works and labors.