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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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Printer medallion
Printer

Printer

A printer — setting words into permanent type — often touches a warning of poverty unless you practise economy and energy. The dream may ask where carelessness with your resources is threatening hardship, and whether you'll cultivate the thrift and effort needed to keep want at bay, since the warning is one you still have time to heed.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for printer, 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 printer in your dreams, is a warning of poverty, if you neglect to practice economy and cultivate energy. For a woman to dream that her lover or associate is a printer, foretells she will fail to please her parents in the selection of a close friend.