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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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Lame medallion
Lame

Lame

Lameness seen in a dream often touches hopes and pleasures that prove unfruitful — a hobbled progress, an outing that disappoints. The dream may ask where something you'd looked forward to is faltering, what feels crippled or held back in your plans, and how to meet a disappointment that limps when you'd hoped it would run.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

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

For a woman to dream of seeing any one lame, foretells that her pleasures and hopes will be unfruitful and disappointing.

[109] See Cripple.