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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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Lamp-post medallion
Lamp-post

Lamp-post

A lamp-post — light marking the path through the dark — often touches an unexpected ally: a stranger proving your staunchest friend in need. The dream may ask who might steady you when you're pressed, whether the light on your road comes from a surprising source, and what adversity the post in your path warns you to watch for.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lamp-post, 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 see a lamp-post in your dreams, some stranger will prove your staunchiest friend in time of pressing need.

To fall against a lamp-post, you will have deception to overcome, or enemies will ensnare you.

To see a lamp-post across your path, you will have much adversity in your life.