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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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Seat medallion
Seat

Seat

A seat taken by another often touches being tormented by people calling on you for aid, while giving yours up means yielding to someone's artfulness. The dream may ask where your place or rest is being encroached on, and whether you're surrendering what's yours to someone clever enough to make you feel you should.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for seat, 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 think, in a dream, that some one has taken your seat, denotes you will be tormented by people calling on you for aid. To give a woman your seat, implies your yielding to some fair one's artfulness.