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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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Tops

Tops

A spinning top — whirling fast but going nowhere — often touches frivolous difficulties and means wasted in childish pleasures, with indiscriminate friendships causing trouble. The dream may ask where you're caught in something that spins without progressing, and whether the diversions and careless company are squandering your means.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tops, 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 top, denotes that you will be involved in frivolous difficulties.

To see one spinning, foretells that you will waste your means in childish pleasures.

To see a top, foretells indiscriminate friendships will involve you in difficulty.