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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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Matting medallion
Matting

Matting

Matting — humble woven floor-covering — often touches pleasant prospects and cheerful news from the absent, though old or torn matting brings vexation. The dream may ask where good word from someone far off is making its way to you, and whether the plain ground you're standing on feels fresh and sound or worn and troubling.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for matting, 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 matting, foretells pleasant prospects and cheerful news from the absent. If it is old or torn, you will have vexing things come before you.