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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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Dance

Dance

Dancing often touches joy, ease, and the body's expression of good fortune — merry children, brightening prospects, unexpected pleasure. The dream may ask where lightness and celebration are entering your life, what cheerful turn you sense in your affairs, and whether you're letting yourself simply move with the gladness of it.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dance, 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 seeing a crowd of merry children dancing, signifies to the married, loving, obedient and intelligent children and a cheerful and comfortable home. To young people, it denotes easy tasks and many pleasures.

To see older people dancing, denotes a brighter outlook for business.

To dream of dancing yourself, some unexpected good fortune will come to you.

[51] See Ball.