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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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Unfortunate

Unfortunate

Feeling unfortunate in a dream often touches loss to yourself and trouble for others. The dream may ask where a sense of bad luck is settling over you, and whether the misfortune pressing in is a real downturn affecting you and those around you, or a dread that, named and faced, proves more bearable than it seemed from inside the gloom.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for unfortunate, 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 are unfortunate, is significant of loss to yourself, and trouble for others.