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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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Kaleidoscope medallion
Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope

A kaleidoscope — endless shifting patterns — often touches swift changes with little settled promise in them. The dream may ask where your circumstances keep rearranging before you can hold any shape, whether the constant flux delights or unsettles you, and how to find footing when everything before you is dazzling and won't keep still.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for kaleidoscope, 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

Kaleidoscopes working before you in a dream, portend swift changes with little of favorable promise in them.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream you are looking through one of these curious instruments, and if you are delighted with the changes that present themselves, it is a sign, that you will either travel in distant countries or be very discontented at home.