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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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Robot

Robot

The robot — the made thing that moves and answers without feeling — is a modern figure with no source. What it raises is old: the fear of the human-shaped thing with no inner life, or of becoming that yourself. Where in waking life are you acting without feeling, or meeting something that mimics care without holding any — and which of you is the machine in the dream?

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