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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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Pill

Pill

A pill — small medicine, hard to swallow but taken for good — often touches responsibilities to look after that bring, despite themselves, comfort and enjoyment. The dream may ask where a duty you'd rather not take carries hidden benefit, and whether the thing you must grit your teeth to swallow will do you more good than harm.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pill, 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 take pills, denotes that you will have responsibilities to look after, but they will bring you no little comfort and enjoyment.

To give them to others, signifies that you will be criticised for your disagreeableness.