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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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Cathedral medallion
Cathedral

Cathedral

A vast cathedral with its domes rising into space can, in the old books, mark an envious nature — grandeur that stirs longing for what others possess. The dream tends to touch the soaring, awe-inspiring structure and the smallness it can make us feel, and to ask what magnificence we are measuring ourselves against.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cathedral, 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 wast cathedral with its domes rising into space, denotes that you will be possessed with an envious nature and unhappy longings for the unattainable, both mental and physical; but if you enter you will be elevated in life, having for your companions the learned and wise.