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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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Employment

Employment

Employment often touches livelihood and its insecurities — the fear of loss, the quiet pride of being sought for one's reliability. The dream may ask where worry about your work is weighing on you, whether being out of a role frightens or frees you, and how your reputation for conscientious effort might steady you through uncertain times.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for employment, 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

This is not an auspicious dream. It implies depression in business circles and loss of employment to wage earners. It also denotes bodily illness.

To dream of being out of work, denotes that you will have no fear, as you are always sought out for your conscientious fulfilment of contracts, which make you a desired help.

Giving employment to others, indicates loss for yourself. All dreams of this nature may be interpreted as the above.