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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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Idle

Idle

Idleness often touches designs left unaccomplished — the failure that comes of inactivity, or trouble glimpsed in idle friends. The dream may ask where stalled effort is costing you what you meant to achieve, whether drifting is pulling you toward bad habits, and what your own or others' inaction is quietly letting slip away.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for idle, 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 dream of being idle, you will fail to accomplish your designs.

To see your friends in idleness, you will hear of some trouble affecting them.

For a young woman to dream that she is leading an idle existence, she will fall into bad habits, and is likely to marry a shiftless man.