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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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Yellow Bird

Yellow Bird

A yellow bird flitting through a dream was no glad omen: it foretold some great event that would cast a sickening fear of the future over you, and seen sick or dead, that you'd suffer for another's reckless folly. Sometimes the dream asks what dread has begun to colour the days ahead, and whose mistake you fear you'll end up carrying.

Miller 1901
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for yellow bird, 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 yellow bird flitting about in your dreams, foretells that some great event will cast a sickening fear of the future around you. To see it sick or dead, foretells that you will suffer for another's wild folly.