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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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Uncle

Uncle

An uncle — kin at one remove — often touches soon hearing sad news, with estrangement among relations if he's troubled and formidable enemies if he's dead. The dream may ask where the wider web of family is stirring, and whether a difficulty surfacing among your relations is heading toward the division the figure so often foreshadows.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for uncle, 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

If you see your uncle in a dream, you will have news of a sad character soon.

To dream you see your uncle prostrated in mind, and repeatedly have this dream, you will have trouble with your relations which will result in estrangement, at least for a time.

To see your uncle dead, denotes that you have formidable enemies.

To have a misunderstanding with your uncle, denotes

that your family relations will be unpleasant, and illness will be continually present.