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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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Burr

Burr

A burr clings and will not easily be shaken off, and in dreams it often marks the struggle to free oneself from an unpleasant burden, a longing to change one's surroundings. The dream tends to touch the small, stubborn thing that catches and holds, and to ask what has attached itself to us that we are working to be rid of.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for burr, 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 dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from some unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings.