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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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Rudder medallion
Rudder

Rudder

A rudder — what steers the vessel — often touches a pleasant journey to foreign lands and new friendships, with disappointment and sickness if broken. The dream may ask where your means of steering your own course is in hand, and whether the thing that lets you set direction is sound or snapped, leaving you adrift.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for rudder, 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 rudder, you will soom{sic} make a pleasant journey to foreign lands, and new friendships will be formed.

A broken rudder, augurs disappointment and sickness.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of a broken rudder in a boat or vessel in which you are sailing, foretells that one of the persons who you imagine are in the boat, will be drowned, or come to a sudden death.