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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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Sponges medallion
Sponges

Sponges

A sponge — soaking up and wiping away — often touches deception being practised on you, with folly if you use one to erase. The dream may ask where something is quietly absorbing what you'd keep, or wiping clean what you'd preserve, and whether you're being taken in by a deception soft and porous enough to escape your notice.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sponges, 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

Sponges seen in a dream, denote that deception is being practised upon you.

To use one in erasing, you will be the victim of folly.