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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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Gloomy medallion
Gloomy

Gloomy

Gloom pressing in from all sides often touches a foreboding of approaching unpleasantness and loss. The dream may ask where heaviness is gathering around you, what trouble you sense drawing near, and whether the dimness settling over your circumstances is a warning to brace yourself or a mood asking to be moved through.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for gloomy, 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 be surrounded by many gloomy situations in your dream, warns you of rapidly approaching unpleasantness and loss.

[84] See Despair.