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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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Young

Youth in dreams often carries a longing for renewal—or a quiet grief about roads not taken. Whether you find yourself young again or witness the young around you, the dream may be asking what part of your earlier self still needs tending, or what you're ready to begin.

Miller 1901Fontaine 1862
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What the old dream-books say

These are the entries the historical dream-books record for young, 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 seeing young people, is a prognostication of reconciliation of family disagreements and favorable times for planning new enterprises.

To dream that you are young again, foretells that you will make mighty efforts to recall lost opportunities, but will nevertheless fail.

For a mother to see her son an infant or small child again, foretells that old wounds will be healed and she will take on her youthful hopes and cheerfulness. If the child seems to be dying, she will fall into ill fortune and misery will attend her.

Fontaine, 1862

The Golden Wheel Dream-book

If an old or middle aged person dreams that they are young, it foretells their death: for a young person to dream that he or she is a child, the omen is similar; but to dream of youths, is a sign that you will live to a great age.