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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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Brain medallion
Brain

Brain

To see one's own brain in a dream touches the mind laid bare, and the old books read it as uncongenial surroundings cramping and souring us. The dream tends to touch our intellect and how our circumstances treat it, and to ask whether our environment is feeding our mind or stunting it into something smaller.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for brain, 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 your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings will irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion. To see the brains of animals, foretells that you will suffer mental trouble.

If you eat them, you will gain knowledge, and profit unexpectedly.