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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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Unknown

Unknown

Meeting unknown persons often touches change for good or ill depending on their looks, with ill luck if you feel yourself unknown. The dream may ask who the strangers entering your life are, and whether the unfamiliar figures, and the unsettling sense of going unrecognized, bring a welcome change or cast a shadow over your fortunes.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for unknown, 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 meeting unknown persons, foretells change for good, or bad as the person is good looking, or ugly, or deformed.

To feel that you are unknown, denotes that strange things will cast a shadow of ill luck over you.

[234] See Mystery.