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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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Trousers

Trousers

Trousers — everyday cover, here charged — often touch temptation toward dishonourable deeds, with a fascination taking hold if you put them on wrong side out. The dream may ask where you're being pulled toward something beneath you, and whether a compulsion is fastening onto you in a way your better sense would resist.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for trousers, 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 trousers, foretells that you will be tempted to dishonorable deeds.

If you put them on wrong side out, you will find that a fascination is fastening its hold upon you.