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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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Mining medallion
Mining

Mining

Mining — digging into buried ground — often touches an enemy seeking your ruin by unearthing past wrongs, or worthless pursuits if you're merely hunting for the seam. The dream may ask what someone might be excavating from your history to use against you, and whether the digging you're doing is purposeful or empty.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mining, 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 mining in your dreams, denotes that an enemy is seeking your ruin by bringing up past immoralities in your life. You will be likely to make unpleasant journeys, if you stand near the mine.

If you dream of hunting for mines, you will engage in worthless pursuits.