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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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Hurt

Hurt

Hurt — given or received — often touches the exchange of injury: doing ugly, vengeful work, or being overcome by enemies. The dream may ask where you're tempted to wound someone, where you feel wounded yourself, and how the harm moving between you and another is shaping a cycle of revenge and defeat you might still step out of.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for hurt, 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

If you hurt a person in your dreams, you will do ugly work, revenging and injuring.

If you are hurt, you will have enemies who will overcome you.