Dolphin
Dolphins often surface when we sense a shift in authority or structure — someone new holding the reins, a different system taking shape. The feeling beneath this dream matters more than the animal itself: is it relief at release from old constraints, or unease at what unknown waters now surround you?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dolphin, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a dolphin, indicates your liability to come under a new government. It is not a very good dream.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of seeing these beautiful fishes playing in the water, denotes the death of some dear friend or relative.