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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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Rapids

Rapids

Rapids — fast, churning water sweeping you along — often touch appalling loss from neglected duty and the courting of seductive pleasures. The dream may ask where you're being carried helplessly by a current too strong to fight, and whether a lapse from what you owe is rushing you toward a loss you won't see until it hits.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rapids, 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 imagine that you are being carried over rapids in a dream, denotes that you will suffer appalling loss from the neglect of duty and the courting of seductive pleasures.