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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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Curtains

Curtains

Curtains often touch what we draw to conceal or reveal — and the unwelcome arrivals that can disturb a guarded space. The dream may ask whose intrusion is causing you worry, what you're shielding behind the cloth, and whether the screens around your private life hang clean and whole or torn into disgraceful quarrel.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for curtains, 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 curtains, foretells that unwelcome visitors will cause you worry and unhappiness. Soiled or torn curtains seen in a dream means disgraceful quarrels and reproaches.