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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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Publisher

Publisher

A publisher — who decides whether your work sees light — often touches long journeys and literary aspiration, with disappointment in rejection and fruition in acceptance. The dream may ask where your hopes hang on another's verdict, and whether the cherished work you've offered for judgment will be celebrated or sent back to wound you.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for publisher, 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 a publisher, foretells long journeys and aspirations to the literary craft.

If a woman dreams that her husband is a publisher, she will be jealous of more than one woman of his acquaintance, and spicy scenes will ensue.

For a publisher to reject your manuscript, denotes that you will suffer disappointment at the miscarriage of cherished designs. If he accepts it, you will rejoice in the full fruition of your hopes. If he loses it, you will suffer evil at the hands of strangers.