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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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Poor-house medallion
Poor-house

Poor-house

A poor-house — refuge of the destitute — often touches unfaithful friends who care for you only as they can use your money and belongings. The dream may ask who in your circle values you for what you can provide rather than for yourself, and whether the support around you would survive the loss of what you bring to it.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for poor-house, 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 see a poor-house in your dream, denotes you have unfaithful friends, who will care for you only as they can use your money and belongings.