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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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Mystery

Mystery

Mystery — being bewildered by the inexplicable — often touches strangers harassing you with their troubles and neglected duties you'd avoid, or a higher turn toward learning. The dream may ask what puzzling thing is pulling on you, and whether the confusion is burdening you or beckoning you toward deeper understanding.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for mystery, 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 find yourself bewildered by some mysterious event, denotes that strangers will harass you with their troubles and claim your aid. It warns you also of neglected duties, for which you feel much aversion. Business will wind you into unpleasant complications.

To find yourself studying the mysteries of creation, denotes that a change will take place in your life, throwing you into a higher atmosphere of research and learning, and thus advancing you nearer the attainment of true pleasure and fortune.