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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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Canopy

Canopy

To be beneath a canopy in a dream marks, in the old books, false friends influencing us toward undesirable ways. The dream tends to touch the covering held over us that may shelter or may shadow, and to ask whose protection we are sitting under, and whether the shade they offer is truly for our good.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for canopy, 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 a canopy or of being beneath one, denotes that false friends are influencing you to undesirable ways of securing gain. You will do well to protect those in your care.