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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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Target

Target

A target — the thing aimed at — often touches an affair demanding attention away from pleasanter ones, with reputation endangered if a young woman feels she's the target. The dream may ask where you've become the focus of others' aim, and whether the scrutiny or envy trained on you is putting your standing or good name at risk.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for target, 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 a target, foretells you will have some affair demanding your attention from other more pleasant ones. For a young woman to think she is a target, denotes her reputation is in danger through the envy of friendly associates.