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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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Doomsday medallion
Doomsday

Doomsday

Doomsday often touches ultimate reckoning — the sense of a final accounting drawing near, and the warning to mind material reality before it's too late. The dream may ask where you've been neglecting substance for sentiment, who among your circle is quietly after what you have, and what you'd want set right before any last day arrived.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for doomsday, 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 that you are living on, and looking forward to seeing doomsday, is a warning for you to give substantial and material affairs close attention, or you will find that the artful and scheming friends you are entertaining will have possession of what they desire from you, which is your wealth, and not your sentimentality.

To a young woman, this dream encourages her to throw aside the attention of men above her in station and accept the love of an honest and deserving man near her.