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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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Countenance

Countenance

A countenance — the open expression of a face — often touches how we read what others feel toward us, fair or scowling. The dream may ask whose face you're searching for warmth or warning in, what a beautiful or ugly visage is stirring in you, and how much you let another's expression shape your sense of the day.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for countenance, 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 beautiful and ingenuous countenance, you may safely look for some pleasure to fall to your lot in the near future; but to behold an ugly and scowling visage, portends unfavorable transactions.