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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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China medallion
China

China

China — fine, arranged, and easily broken — often touches the care you bring to your home and the fragile things you set out with attention. The dream may ask what you're keeping carefully in place, and where your sense of a settled, ordered domestic life is being tended or feels at risk.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for china, 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

For a woman to dream of painting or arranging her china, foretells she will have a pleasant home and be a thrifty and economical matron.