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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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Polishing medallion
Polishing

Polishing

Polishing — buffing a thing to a shine — often touches high attainments placing you in enviable positions. The dream may ask where careful, patient refinement is bringing out a lustre in your work or yourself, and whether the effort of bringing something to a gleam is what lifts you into the standing others will admire.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for polishing, 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 of polishing any article, high attainments will place you in enviable positions.