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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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Vat medallion
Vat

Vat

A vat — a great vessel you might fall into — often touches anguish and suffering at the hands of cruel persons you've unwittingly fallen among. The dream may ask where you've stumbled into something far larger and harsher than you realised, and whether the deep, enclosing trouble is in the grip of people indifferent to your pain.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for vat, 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 see a vat in your dreams, foretells anguish and suffering from the hands of cruel persons, into which you have unwittingly fallen.