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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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Lute medallion
Lute

Lute

A lute's gentle music often touches joyful news from absent friends and the pleasant occupations that follow. The dream may ask where word from someone far away is making its sweet way to you, and what congenial, harmonious work the soft strains are calling you toward.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lute, 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 playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends.

Pleasant occupations follow the dreaming of hearing the music of a lute.