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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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Grotto medallion
Grotto

Grotto

A grotto often touches hidden, inconstant depths — incomplete friendships, or the unexpected meeting of an absent loved one in a sheltered hollow. The dream may ask what you're discovering in a half-concealed inner place, whether a connection there is shallow or deep, and what return or reunion the quiet cavern is drawing you toward.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for grotto, 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 see a grotto in your dreams, is a sign of incomplete and inconstant friendships. Change from comfortable and simple plenty will make showy poverty unbearable.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of being in a grotto, or cavern in the earth, shows that you will soon meet a near and dear relative: if you live away from home, something will occur to cause your return: such a dream always foretells meeting your absent friends.