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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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Ring

Ring

Rings often circle commitment, promise, or a bond that matters—though sometimes they represent the boundaries we've chosen or inherited. A broken ring can carry grief or relief in equal measure, while receiving one might ask whether you're ready to hold what's being offered.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ring, 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 wearing rings, denotes new enterprises in which you will be successful.

A broken ring, foretells quarrels and unhappiness in the married state, and separation to lovers.

For a young woman to receive a ring, denotes that worries over her lover's conduct will cease, as he will devote himself to her pleasures and future interest.

To see others with rings, denotes increasing prosperity and many new friends.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

For a lady to dream that a gentleman presents her with a ring, or that she has a ring belonging to a gentleman, is a sign of a wedding. If a young man dreams that he has got a lady's ring, the omen is similar. To dream of finding a ring, foretells that the person finding it will marry within a year.