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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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Riddles

Riddles

Riddles — puzzles that tease and frustrate — often touch an enterprise that tries your patience and drains your money, carrying confusion. The dream may ask where you're caught trying to solve something that won't yield, and whether the teasing problem before you is worth the patience and resources it keeps demanding.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for riddles, 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 that you are trying to solve riddles, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will try your patience and employ your money.

The import of riddles is confusion and dissatisfaction.