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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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Seal

Seal

A seal — at home in water but ungainly on land — often touches striving for a place above your power to maintain, the restlessness of high aspiration. The dream may ask where your reach is exceeding your grasp, and whether the discontent driving you to advance is spurring real growth or straining you toward a station you can't yet hold.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for seal, 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 see seals, denotes that you are striving for a place above your power to maintain.

Dreams of seals usually show that the dreamer has high aspirations and discontent will harass him into struggles to advance his position.