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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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Yawning medallion
Yawning

Yawning

Yawning — the body's sign of weariness or want — often touches searching in vain for health and contentment, with friends seen in a miserable, sickness-bound state if others yawn. The dream may ask where a deep tiredness is signalling something unmet in you, and whether the fruitless search for ease needs a different rest.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for yawning, 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 yawn in your dreams, you will search in vain for health and contentment.

To see others yawning, foretells that you will see some of your friends in a miserable state. Sickness will prevent them from their usual labors.