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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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Cipher medallion
Cipher

Cipher

A cipher — writing that hides its meaning — often touches the urge to decode, to study, to uncover what is deliberately concealed. The dream may ask what you're trying to read between the lines, and whether patient, persistent attention will unlock a meaning that others have passed over.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cipher, 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 reading cipher, indicates that you are interested in literary researches, and by constant study you will become well acquainted with the habits and lives of the ancients.