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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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Cousin medallion
Cousin

Cousin

A cousin often touches the bonds of extended family and the sorrow that can run through them — disappointment, rupture, saddened ties. The dream may ask where a familial connection feels strained or grieving, and whether even an affectionate closeness might be carrying the seeds of a deeper break between families.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

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

Dreaming of one's cousin, denotes disappointments and afflictions. Saddened lives are predicted by this dream.

To dream of an affectionate correspondence with one's cousin, denotes a fatal rupture between families.