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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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Numbness

Numbness

Numbness — a creeping loss of feeling — often touches illness and disquieting conditions. The dream may ask where sensation, in your body or your engagement with life, is dulling and going dead, and whether the spreading deadness is signalling something that needs attention before it advances further.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for numbness, 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 feel a numbness creeping over you, in your dreams, is a sign of illness, and disquieting conditions