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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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Hidden

Hidden

Hidden things often touch what we conceal and what we uncover — embarrassment in hiding, unexpected pleasure in finding. The dream may ask what you've tucked away out of sight, whether keeping it hidden is costing you ease, and what surprising delight might be waiting to be discovered in the very places you weren't looking.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for hidden, 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 have hidden away any object, denotes embarrassment in your circumstances.

To find hidden things, you will enjoy unexpected pleasures.

For a young woman to dream of hiding objects, she will be the object of much adverse gossip, but will finally prove her conduct orderly.