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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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Jester medallion
Jester

Jester

A jester — the fool whose business is foolishness — often touches the neglect of important things in favour of trifles. The dream may ask where silly affairs are distracting you from what matters, what serious responsibility you're avoiding behind a show of lightness, and whether playing for laughs is dodging what needs sober attention.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for jester, 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 jester, foretells you will ignore important things in looking after silly affairs.