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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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Dun medallion
Dun

Dun

Receiving a dun — an insistent demand for payment — often touches the pressure of accounts coming due and the warning against neglect. The dream may ask where you've let business or love drift untended, what reckoning is pressing on you, and whether the thing you dread being asked for might arrive, instead, in your favour.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for dun, 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 receive a dun, warns you to look after your affairs and correct all tendency towards neglect of business and love.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If you are troubled in your dreams by imagining that people are dunning you for money, it is a sure sign you will get some unexpectedly.