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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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Struggling medallion
Struggling

Struggling

Struggling — straining hard against difficulty — often touches serious difficulties met, with present obstacles surmounted if you win. The dream may ask where you're locked in real effort against something resisting you, and whether you can press through to victory, since prevailing in the immediate fight clears the larger obstacles too.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for struggling, 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 struggling, foretells that you will encounter serious difficulties, but if you gain the victory in your struggle, you will also surmount present obstacles.