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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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Tempest

Tempest

A tempest — a violent, prolonged storm — often touches a siege of calamitous trouble with friends treating you indifferently, though to the weary it can mean repose. The dream may ask where a fierce, sustained upheaval is bearing down on you, and whether you can endure the battering, knowing even the longest tempest finally spends itself.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tempest, 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 tempests, denotes that you will have a siege of calamitous trouble, and friends will treat you with indifference.

[222] See Storms and Cyclones.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of long-continuing and great tempests, signifies affliction, troubles, dangers, losses and perils; to the poor, repose.