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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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Shelves

Shelves

Shelves — empty or full — often touch losses and gloom when bare, but happy contentment through fulfilled hopes when stocked. The dream may ask what state your stores and provisions are in, and whether the racks where you keep what sustains you stand bare with want or laden with the rewards of hope and exertion come good.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shelves, 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 see empty shelves in dreams, indicates losses and consequent gloom.

Full shelves, augurs happy contentment through the fulfillment of hope and exertions.

[202] See Store.