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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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Library

Library

A library often speaks to hunger—for order, for answers, for a self that knows more than it does now. Sometimes the dream asks whether you're truly seeking what the rows of spines promise, or simply hiding in a place that feels like purpose.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for library, 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 that you are in a library, denotes that you will grow discontented with your environments and associations and seek companionship in study and the exploration of ancient customs.

To find yourself in a library for other purpose than study, foretells that your conduct will deceive your friends, and where you would have them believe that you had literary aspirations, you will find illicit assignations.