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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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Lance

Lance

A lance — the long weapon of reach and charge — often touches formidable enemies and the risk of injurious miscalculation. The dream may ask what powerful adversary you're squaring up to, where an error of judgment might wound you, and whether breaking a lance against the odds might overcome what looked impossible and reach your desire.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lance, 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 lance, denotes formidable enemies and injurious experiments.

To be wounded by a lance, error of judgment will cause you annoyance.

To break a lance, denotes seeming impossibilities will be overcome and your desires will be fulfilled.