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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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Temptation

Temptation

Temptation — being surrounded by enticement — often touches trouble with an envious person trying to displace you in friends' confidence, with success if you resist. The dream may ask where you're being lured toward something that would compromise you, and whether holding firm against the pull will carry you through the opposition.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for temptation, 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 that you are surrounded by temptations, denotes that you will be involved in some trouble with an envious person who is trying to displace you in the confidence of friends. If you resist them, you will be successful in some affair in which you have much opposition.