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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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Favor

Favor

Favor often touches the give and take of asking and granting — asking pointing to abundance you don't truly lack, granting hinting at loss. The dream may ask where you're seeking help you may not need, what it costs you to give freely to others, and how the small economies of obligation are shaping who owes, and who is owed, around you.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for favor, 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 ask favors of anyone, denotes that you will enjoy abundance, and that you will not especially need anything.

To grant favors, means a loss.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If you dream that you ask a favor of a friend, and he grants it, it foretells that he has been talking about you; but if he refuses it, it shows that some other person has spoken ill of you to him.