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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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Famish

Famish

Famishing — wasting with deep, unmet hunger — often touches a disheartening failure where you'd expected success, an enterprise starving for what it needs. The dream may ask where a promising thing is coming up empty, what sustenance your effort or hopes are being denied, and how to face a lack that reaches beyond yourself alone.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for famish, 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 famishing, foretells that you are meeting disheartening failure in some enterprise which you considered a promising success. To see others famishing, brings sorrow to others as well as to yourself.