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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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Drought medallion
Drought

Drought

Drought often mirrors a sense of inner depletion — the feeling that some vital source has run dry, whether creativity, connection, or hope. Notice what you've been waiting for that hasn't arrived, and whether the barrenness holds a stillness worth sitting with before the rains return.

Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for drought, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

For a farmer or planter to dream of seeing his grass or crops drying up for want of rain, denotes that an accident will happen to him or his property during a storm, or that some of his live stock will die or meet an accident.