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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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Janitor

Janitor

A janitor — keeper of a building's quiet upkeep — often touches the consequences of management: unworthy help and disorder, or pleasant order when things are tended. The dream may ask where the maintenance of your affairs is neglected or attended, who keeps your foundations clean, and what petty annoyances arise when upkeep slips.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for janitor, 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 a janitor, denotes bad management and disobedient children. Unworthy servants will annoy you.

To look for a janitor and fail to find him, petty annoyances will disturb your otherwise placid existence. If you find him, you will have pleasant associations with strangers, and your affairs will have no hindrances.