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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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Cooking

Cooking

Cooking a meal often touches the pleasant duty of nourishing others — the warmth of preparing something to be shared. The dream may ask who you're hoping to gather and feed, what care you're putting into the offering, and whether the kitchen feels cheerful or shadowed by a discord that sours the table.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for cooking, 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 cook a meal, denotes some pleasant duty will devolve on you. Many friends will visit you in the near future. If there is discord or a lack of cheerfulness you may expect harassing and disappointing events to happen.