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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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Orphan

Orphan

An orphan in dreams often speaks to parts of yourself that feel unwitnessed or uncared for — some need or gift you've been carrying alone. Sometimes the dream asks whether you're mourning something lost, or whether you're being called to tend what others have overlooked.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for orphan, 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

Condoling with orphans in a dream, means that the unhappy cares of others will touch your sympathies and cause you to sacrifice much personal enjoyment.

If the orphans be related to you, new duties will come into your life, causing estrangement from friends ant from some person held above mere friendly liking.