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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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Sailing

Sailing

Sailing on calm waters often touches easy access to blissful joys and immunity from misery, while a small vessel means desires that won't exceed your power. The dream may ask where you're gliding smoothly toward happiness, and whether the waters carrying you stay clear or hold winds and murk that will test your passage.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sailing, 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 sailing on calm waters, foretells easy access to blissful joys, and immunity from poverty and whatever brings misery.

To sail on a small vessel, denotes that your desires will not excel your power of possessing them.

[196] See Ocean and Sea.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of fair sailing on clear water, is an excellent omen, as it foretells abundance and success: heavy winds that endanger your boat, or muddy waters, point out difficulties which will probably be overcome.