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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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Door Bell medallion
Door Bell

Door Bell

A doorbell often touches the arrival of news at your threshold — an unexpected summons, tidings hastening toward you. The dream may ask what message you sense approaching, whether you're bracing for a call to business or to a sickbed, and how ready you are for whatever waits on the other side of the door when it rings.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for door bell, 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 you hear or ring a door bell, foretells unexpected tidings, or a hasty summons to business, or the bedtide of a sick relative.