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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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Traveling

Traveling

Traveling in dreams often reflects how you move through change—whether with ease or effort, companionship or solitude. The terrain beneath you matters: smooth passage may invite ease, while rough ground asks what resistance you're carrying, and whether the struggle itself holds meaning.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for traveling, 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 traveling, signifies profit and pleasure combined. To dream of traveling through rough unknown places, portends dangerous enemies, and perhaps sickness. Over bare or rocky steeps, signifies apparent gain, but loss and disappointment will swiftly follow. If the hills or mountains are fertile and green, you will be eminently

prosperous and happy.

To dream you travel alone in a car, denotes you may possibly make an eventful journey, and affairs will be worrying. To travel in a crowded car, foretells fortunate adventures, and new and entertaining companions.

[229] See Journey.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

To dream of traveling by railroad or steamboat is a very good omen, as it denotes thrift and success in your business; but if you dream you are journeying in your own private coach, it foreshadows poverty in the end, though you may have temporary good luck: if you dream you have crossed the ocean, and find yourself in a foreign country, you may be sure that good fortune will attend all your business transactions.