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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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Image

An image — a likeness set up and revered — often touches poor success in love or business, or being weak-minded and easily led. The dream may ask what representation you're putting your faith in, whether you're mistaking the figure for the substance, and how setting up something false to look at might leave you vulnerable and astray.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for image, 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 that you see images, you will have poor success in business or love.

To set up an image in your home, portends that you will be weak minded and easily led astray. Women should be careful of their reputation after a dream of this kind. If the images are ugly, you will have trouble in your home.