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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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Invalid

An invalid often touches the drain of displeasing company interfering with your interests — or the fear of being laid low yourself. The dream may ask whose neediness or ill-suited presence is hindering you, where you feel your own strength threatened, and how the figure of weakness mirrors a circumstance quietly sapping your energy.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for invalid, 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 of invalids, is a sign of displeasing companions interfering with your interest. To think you are one, portends you are threatened with displeasing circumstances.