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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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Carpenter medallion
Carpenter

Carpenter

To see carpenters at their labour in a dream marks honest endeavours to raise one's fortune, work that builds. The dream tends to touch the patient, skilled making of solid things, and to ask what we are constructing through honest effort, and whether we are giving the work the steady craftsmanship it deserves.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for carpenter, 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 carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest endeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime or so-called recreation.