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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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Soap medallion
Soap

Soap

Soap — for washing things clean — often touches friendships revealing entertainment and success in affairs, with competency for a woman making it, though some read trouble that soon departs. The dream may ask where something cleansing is at work in your bonds, and whether a fresh, scrubbed start is bringing the ease it promises.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for soap, 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 soap, foretells that friendships will reveal interesting entertainment. Farmers will have success in their varied affairs.

For a young woman to be making soap, omens a substantial and satisfactory competency will be hers.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

Signifies trouble in business, but it will soon depart.