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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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Terror

Terror

Terror — gripping fear at some object or event — often touches disappointment and loss enveloping you, with friends' unhappiness affecting you if you see others terrified. The dream may ask where dread has seized you, and whether the fear flooding the scene points to a real coming loss or amplifies a threat you can meet more steadily.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for terror, 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 feel terror at any object or happening, denotes that disappointments and loss will envelope you.

To see others in terror, means that unhappiness of friends will seriously affect you.